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Sharing Movies over Network

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bjett92

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Oct 22, 2007
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I want to rip my DVD collection to a hard drive and share it over my entire network to watch movies on my MacBooks, Google TV, and Apple TV. Would buying a 2TB time capsule and using it as a networked hard drive work for this, or should I buy an Airport base station and attach an external drive, or should I get a dedicated networked hard drive. I really want to stay away from having to set up a media server like Plex, because it is much more expensive.

Thanks!
 
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adbe

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Jul 11, 2008
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bjett92 said:
I want to rip my DVD collection to a hard drive and share it over my entire network to watch movies on my MacBooks, Google TV, and Apple TV. Would buying a 2TB time capsule and using it as a networked hard drive work for this, or should I buy an Airport base station and attach an external drive, or should I get a dedicated networked hard drive. I really want to stay away from having to set up a media server like Plex, because it is much more expensive.

Thanks!
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Before you even worry about hardware choices, your first stumbling block is the ATV. It wont stream from anything other than iTunes with a jail break.

Beyond that any cheap router/attached hard drive combo will do what you need, unless you're also hoping to use the drive as a Time Machine target for the MacBooks.
 
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