More AppleTV Stuff

I just got a Casino Royal for the AppleTV. No worries, I own the DVD also.  I encoded the dvd into h264 file, and it looks great on the AppleTV. The more stuff I have for the AppleTV, the more I like it. The controls add easy to the use, and the remote only has one flaw: no volume control for the system.  Grant you this is not that big of deal since I should be getting a Harmony remote, but I'm not sure if I will be able to control the AppleTV using that remote.


Now the bad part of the AppleTV. I'm really pissed that Apple decided to add a new option to the AppleTV line one week after I purchased mine.  Now you can get 160 gigabyte hard drive. Now I know that I can add a drive myself.  But I'm an old man now of 36. My days of DIY computer projects became extinct  when I turned 30.  One of the main reasons for using a Mac.  I don't want  play with hardware, I want the software to do most of the work.  Well I guess I will be doing a hardware project now.


One more thing bad about the AppleTV.  I have to have a copy of video in two places, one on the computer and one on the AppleTV.  That also makes me unhappy.  I know I can stream the video, and we will look into that.