How much do you use your Apple TV?

[bobr1952]

I use mine every day. I listen to music in the morning with my coffee in my home theater room--and use iTunes to send the music to my ATV. Then at least once a day I will watch something either in my iTunes library, rental from iTunes, or Netflix. So it is a essential part of my Home Theater.

 

[neilmacd]

We use it everyday. We cut cable three years ago and haven't looked back.
We've got Netflix, Hulu and stream iTunes.

We've got an ATV3 on our main TV and I just replaced my old Xbox360 (canceled Xbox Live in the process) with another ATV3 for the TV in the bedroom (was holding out for a new one but for $100 no big deal).

Next step is to get a Mac Mini and use it as a media server for our home movies and photos. Also going to start ripping our DVDs so I can eliminate the DVD player in our living room.

Some say it's overkill but a Mac mini media server really is the bees knees. I'm using a 2011 mini (with SSD) as a downloader/converter/iTunes media server and run it headless via my iPad. Quiet as a mouse thanks to the SSD and amazing power consumption.

Just attach a couple of USB HDDs for expandibility and you're away.

 

[KellyC]

Some say it's overkill but a Mac mini media server really is the bees knees. I'm using a 2011 mini (with SSD) as a downloader/converter/iTunes media server and run it headless via my iPad. Quiet as a mouse thanks to the SSD and amazing power consumption.

Just attach a couple of USB HDDs for expandibility and you're away.

That's the plan with the only difference being that I'll likely also use the Mac mini as a desktop computer for ripping DVDs, and also serve as the first upload point from our non iOS devices (camcorder, digital camera). Right now all of our home movies and photos are scattered across my wife's MBA, my MBA, our two iPads and iPhones. I want to establish the Mac mini as the central upload point (with backup) and server for all of that media. We haven't had a desktop computer in several years. Working off of laptops has been great but I'm trying to cull the data fragmentation that's taking place and establish some kind of workflow.

 

[linds15]

That's the plan with the only difference being that I'll likely also use the Mac mini as a desktop computer for ripping DVDs, and also serve as the first upload point from our non iOS devices (camcorder, digital camera). Right now all of our home movies and photos are scattered across my wife's MBA, my MBA, our two iPads and iPhones. I want to establish the Mac mini as the central upload point (with backup) and server for all of that media. We haven't had a desktop computer in several years. Working off of laptops has been great but I'm trying to cull the data fragmentation that's taking place and establish some kind of workflow.

thats what i have setup. all content served to 3 atvs from the mini. also use it for all my ripping/file conversion. also recently started amalgamating all the family photos (coming from multiple iphones and cameras) and just making it the focal point of the house's digital media.

 

[dgalvan123]

When you said that I thought of face time from the apple tv. I think that would be cool Then your whole family could sit on the couch and face time. It would really make it feel like your there with people.

Worth noting that you can pretty much already do this if you have another iOS device that can do airplay mirroring.

1. Set up a FaceTime call on your iPhone 4S+, iPad 2+, or whatever.
2. Mirror the screen to your Apple TV over airplay.
3. Prop up the iOS device near the TV.

 

[northendroid]

Use it daily at multiple location

I have two in my household and use them daily. Both are jailbroken and XBMC installed. Great source for new movies and tv series. I work in a different province and have a appletv 1 at that location that I use daily. Use airplay so stream from my Macbook

 

[ElectronGuru]

I'm a documentary junky. Between hbo and pbs, there's like 2 years worth!

 

[kelub]

Daily here as well. 3 ATV's - living room, 2nd living ("den"), and master bedroom. Kids use den for watching cartoons, movies, whatever. Living gets use on *all* movies (home media server - every disc is ripped and added to the library), HBO (DVR never records an HBO show because everything's always available on HBO Go), master bedroom also gets use for watching HBO TV shows or movies while laying in bed. We aren't cord cutters yet - frankly right now it wouldn't save us *that* much to cut it since our TV is bundled with internet, and we'd lose legal access to the cable shows we like to watch - but if it ever comes to that, the Apple TVs would be used even more.