Multiple TV Scenario

[LimiGuy]

Could someone assist me in telling whether or not this will work:

- I wish to display videos that I have created and rendered as mp4's on 3 HDTVs.
- I want all 3 TVs to display the same video.
- Is is possible to place all of my videos into iTunes, create a playlist, and play the videos on my iPad, which will then go to three separate Apple TV components hooked up to three HDTVS?
- Wifi will be available.

I guess my two main questions are:
1) If I have three Apple TVs hooked up to three HDTVs, will they all sync up with my iPad?
2) Can I show the videos outside of iTunes? Or is the only way Apple TV works is for it to show programming through iTunes?

Thanks in advance for your help!

LimiGuy

 

[EmmEff]

I'm not entirely convinced there won't be sync issues due to latency. Use one Apple TV and an active video splitter to feed the displays

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

EmmEffs solution is best for #1.

For #2, you can airplay video on your ipad to that TV, and that would be video outside of iTunes that you can play on your 3 TVs via TV. You can play video outside of iTunes from the other TV supported sources (such as netflix) too.

 

[Omne666]

I just tried to send a TV show to 2 ATV2s...no luck. It reverted to just the computer screen, and when I went back to the speaker selection again, multiple speaker option was no longer available.

So...at this point in time....from iTunes to multiple TVs...no. You can do audio only. I do that all the time, to both a mix of ATvs and speakers, but video no go.

I'm actually looking into running iTunes on a couple of virtual machines in parallels, all accessing the one collection of media, and telling each one to send a different video to different TVs. Doesn't help you...just wanted to share my next experiment!!