After a disastrous time trying to get VLC to reliably play back a view-before-you-buy version of a movie (an AVI - audio would drop out for just a fraction of a second every 10 seconds or so), I simply went to the ITMS and rented it, in HD. The picture was better, the sound was better, and, most of all, it just worked. I had to wait all of 30 seconds for it to cache and then I could start watching it. The ATV experience is, quite simply, very good.
It just needs more movies available. And the ability to rent TV.
Converting things that are not available to m4v format is just a real pain.
(Maybe Plex would have played back the AVI more reliably - I don't know.)
It just needs more movies available. And the ability to rent TV.
Converting things that are not available to m4v format is just a real pain.
(Maybe Plex would have played back the AVI more reliably - I don't know.)