Posts tagged TV 2.0
My AppleTV Experiment: Phase One
I’ve started a blog series on alexstone.me to get somewhat official with things, but this is more of a side-post.
I picked up an AppleTV yesterday and I’m currently running a little experiment to see just how realistic TV 2.0 is for a regular family.
This is phase one of that experiment. What I’ve done is emptied out an external hard drive and placed it on my Airport Extreme (Apple WIFI router. It has a USB port on it so you can plug in a printer or a hard drive).
Now that I have this massive amount of storage that I can access wirelessly from anywhere in the house, the next step is moving things over. I am currently migrating my entire iTunes library (music, movies, TV shows, apps, etc.) to the external drive. It’s literally 3 clicks and a lot of waiting. Nothing too major so far.
Hopefully, by the time I get up in the morning, everything will be moved over and I can start with Phase Two, which is converting all of my downloaded shows (currently in divx format) to an iTunes/AppleTV/iPad/iPhone/iPod friendly format.
The idea is that anyone in my family will be able to watch the shows in my iTunes library, via Home Share, on their own machines and that I can free up ~100GBs from my harddrive and just have all of this content stored on the network drive.
Right now, I’d really love to get my girlfriend an AppleTV, as she is planning on killing her cable this week. My only concern is figuring out how she would get my content at her house without me going over and putting it in her iTunes. Even then, what happens when she runs out of space on her laptop?
