Thoughts on itunes IN Apple TV

I just purchased a new 40gb TV and I love it except even with a 160gb hard drive, it will fill up fast.

From my understanding of TV, it is basically frontrow. The "how organized are your movies" thread and some apple TV modifying made me think, is it possible to put Itunes on the TV?

Why? A lot of people are syncing and streaming over their network. Right now all I have is a macbook with limited space. Reading at awkwardforums, you can use an external hard drive and let the TV read it with your media.

With iTunes inside the TV it would be the same without streaming. Also with that in mind, figure out some way to get metaX on there.

I started thinking about his after I started encoding some mkvs. The video played fine in iTunes, but it was "laggy" playing on the TV. Any thoughts on this or am I just crazy

The thought also originated from: http://forum.awkwardtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=632

I mainly want the metaX feature but make it work with a 500gb external attached to the tv

speakerwizard said:

mac mini and minimax drive?

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That is my last resort, although I was thinking 24" iMac with a larger internal hdd.

its a last resort because I have to purchase a Mac Mini. I already have an external and for some reason, when I use NitoTV, I do not get any weird fps issues with my videos.

mr_matalino said:

I guess I'm not following why you'd go with a 24" iMac over a mac mini to use the Apple TV? ($1000+ savings)

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Sorry, I was a little bit confused also.

Yes, the ideal solution would be a mac mini with an external although in the future I would rather purchase an iMac for video, photo editing, Apple TV etc instead of buying a mac mini just for the apple TV.

But that still requires me to stream the media.


I did see ATV and it does look cool.