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New Mac user, intrigued by apple TV

fgduthie

fgduthie

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Hi folks,

I'm not sure if many will be able to answer this, but hopefully so. I recently bought a MacBook Pro and I'm intrigued by the fact that if I get an Apple TV box, I can stream to it from my Mac. I have 2 questions about this:

1. Does this work for webpages? For instance if I was streaming live sporting events, can I stream it to the Apple TV box? Or is it only for iTunes/Quicktime/VLC player?

2. Are the functions on the Apple TV (For the UK iPlayer, BBC Radio, etc) regionalised? ie Can I continue to watch these items, from a UK box in mainland Europe? Or is it still a legal thing of only being available in the individual countries unless I use a VPN?

Many thanks for any help

Fraser
 
Boyd01

Boyd01

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Using Airplay on your Mac, you can treat the AppleTV just like an external monitor. Perfomance using wired gigabit ethernet isn't bad, but certainly not as responsive as a directly connected external monitor. A wifi connection to the Apple TV will be much slower.

As for the rest, I don't know for sure, but am pretty sure it is regionalized.
 
Donoban

Donoban

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fgduthie said:
Hi folks,

I'm not sure if many will be able to answer this, but hopefully so. I recently bought a MacBook Pro and I'm intrigued by the fact that if I get an Apple TV box, I can stream to it from my Mac. I have 2 questions about this:

1. Does this work for webpages? For instance if I was streaming live sporting events, can I stream it to the Apple TV box? Or is it only for iTunes/Quicktime/VLC player?

2. Are the functions on the Apple TV (For the UK iPlayer, BBC Radio, etc) regionalised? ie Can I continue to watch these items, from a UK box in mainland Europe? Or is it still a legal thing of only being available in the individual countries unless I use a VPN?

Many thanks for any help

Fraser
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I stream movies from my air to my Apple TV over wifi and the performance is fine. The resolution might not be a perfect match but that could just be my crappy tv.

I live in Australia and I see the nba, ufc fighting, plus other subscription services. You also get you tube, Apple trailers, but I don't see any specific Australian type apps.

My advice would be to pick up a cheap refurb or second hand Apple tv and give it a go.
 
fgduthie

fgduthie

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Jan 21, 2015
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Brilliant, cheers for that. It thought it may of been that way, but that's pretty cool.

Will see about the regionalised thing - give's me options for moving around.

Thanks for your help
 
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nebo1ss

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The apple tv does not support Iplayer. Also, even the competitors products which do support iPlayer are not available outside the UK using a non UK IP address. You can get around this by using a proxy so that you appear to have a UK IP.
 
fgduthie

fgduthie

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Jan 21, 2015
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Cheers for that aswell. I live in Germany but from the UK so trying to see options for it. Got time to try and find options/solutions but thank you for your help aswell
 
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