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Sounds good, Grimmy. I was thinking buffer too, but that stated "limit" for # of movies/songs etc. just sounds so much like capacity, don't you think?
As in, "you may have 500GB of movies and songs, but only 80GB of it at a time will be available!"
Then again, perhaps not. The whole "sync" thing presumes computer capacity=AppleTV capacity ... which would imply Apple only thinks our total media stored on our computers is 80GB.
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I will have to see one of these in use before I consider buying. Too many questions about how it actually works. I'm working with almost 70GB of music now, that's over 11,000 songs, and something like 3,000 photos. I'm glad they finally released this product, but it seems like they are kind of late to the game with the EyeHome and other offerings from Roku already on the market for years now. The biggest difference that I can see between those and the AppleTV is that this is the only one that will play 'protected' content, ie. stuff purchased from their music store, which is a lot of stuff by now.
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This was on my list too. But with almost 90 gb of music, I want something that gives me access to ALL my music downstairs. Not just part of it.
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[quote The Grim Ninja]Stab in the dark: The hard drive is there so that it will be backward compatible with wireless networks which aren't g/n compatible.
Try streaming HD over 802.11b and you'll run into stutters, especially if anything else is going on. Add a HD 'buffer' so that there's already a ton of content on the system ready to go, no streaming required, and you improved the user experience of people who lag behind wirelessly.
That would be cool except for one little problem, AppleTV does not stream HD!
I do believe it is a buffer, but also a repository for all those cool 3D floating photos and DVD covers. I am really hoping those aren't created on the server, that would put quite a load on the server. I am hoping that AppleTV has a hardware chip to do that.
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