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TheRealNick

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Oct 21, 2017
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I have a reasonable selection of movies and TV shows bought from the iTunes Store all of which I currently have downloaded on to my iMac. (I tend to buy them in when they're dirt cheap.) I leave iTunes running and home share to my ATV3 which works absolutely fine at the moment. I use the "computers" tab on the ATV3 and find the shows from there. The reason I do this rather than stream from Apple is that my internet connection is terrible where I live at the moment (there is no faster alternative, without going down the mobile broadband route which would cost a fortune) and whilst the line can just about handle streaming, if anyone else is trying to use the internet in the household it tends to go VERY slow for them.

I was considering upgrading to the ATV4/4K and was wondering about the "computers" gui. Is it like the ATV3 with all the movies in a long list? Or has it had a face lift to look more like the grid view from iTunes? Is there a choice?

Also, when looking at TV shows on "computers" section of the ATV3, again they are in list format but each season of each show gets its own placeholder in the list. Has this changed or is it still the same?

Both are minor points really but I can't seem to find any pictures or videos of the "Computers - Movies/TV Shows" gui anywhere! Any images of this or just a basic description of what it looks like would be helpful.

Thanks.
 
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