Apple TV dont understand the Concept

[Phil A.]

I absolutely love my Apple TV - I've got 130 movies and 600+ TV episodes (combination of iTunes store purchased and rips of my own store purchased DVDs), and I can watch any one of them at the push of a button.
One of the best features IMO is the fact that you don't have to sit through that stupid non-skippable anti-piracy bit at the beginning of the movie - I never have and never will watch any pirated movie, so why the need to annoy genuine users?

 

[Tallest Skil]

The next version of Microsoft's Windows Media Center supports ripped DVDs (Video_TS). It has full DVD menu support. However, it's not due out until Windows 7 ships in Q4 2009 at the earliest.

Huh, interesting. Microsoft is saying Q2... but we all know it'll be Q2 2011.

 

[kiranmk2]

You don't have to miss out on anything. If a DVD comes with a special feature you want to keep - just rip/encode that extra feature as a separate title. Latest aTV v2.3 allows to group multiple parts of the movies into the same logical feature. So you can easily group "extras" with the main feature, pretty much what you would have with original DVD.

How do you go about this? I've got a couple of feature-length making-ofs encoded and would like to group them with their films in the menu. Is it down to the tagging of the files?

 

[iOrlando]

i bought an apple tv on black friday. My main use for it is to rent HD movies, and youtube. I still dont see much sense buying movies (unless i really like them) for more than 10 dollars when at most i watch it maybe 2-3 times? Instead just rent HD for 5 bucks.

 

[hitekalex]

How do you go about this? I've got a couple of feature-length making-ofs encoded and would like to group them with their films in the menu. Is it down to the tagging of the files?

Yep, you just need to assign the features you want to group the same 'TV Show' tag.

 

[BoulderBum]

You don't have to miss out on anything. If a DVD comes with a special feature you want to keep - just rip/encode that extra feature as a separate title. Latest aTV v2.3 allows to group multiple parts of the movies into the same logical feature. So you can easily group "extras" with the main feature, pretty much what you would have with original DVD.

I meant more DVD vs. movies from the iTunes store, though even with the above approach, I think it's less intuitive than a typical DVD with its menu.

 

[ascender]

I was the same when I first heard about Apple TV. Then someone explained it as being like an iPod for your TV which I think is still the best way to explain how it works.

Obviously you can stream to it as well....

 

[GRuizMD]

I was the same when I first heard about Apple TV. Then someone explained it as being like an iPod for your TV which I think is still the best way to explain how it works.

Obviously you can stream to it as well....

No, its not like an iPod for your tv, cause with the iPod I can:
Get my music collection with no 3rd party software into a centralized repository (iTunes) on ATV I have to do Tricks and use 3rd Party software to put my movies in there

Last Night Family Visited from overseas *They dont Speak english* however I put a movie on my old and trusty dvd, selected spanish subtitles and boom people entertained, with an ATV if I
1. Rip
2. Rent or
3. Buy from iTunes store
the movie will lack the subtitles, a feature useful for at least 70% of the world population, so my family would have to see the images and guess what the movie is about. --> people not entertained.

That for me is like riping your music but accepting that the song will go mute every time the chorus repeats.

At least that's what I have been able to find on my product research, and I will have to pass on the ATV. Maybe next year it will be implemented, and oh boy Will I jump on the thing...

Thanks for all the comments and help