- Jan 9, 2010
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Specifically i'm looking at AppleTV vs Intel NUC.
Interested in mainly streaming content from another PC (Win7 Pro) to my HDTV. From what I know with the NUC I can just access shared folder and have control over media players and play nearly any content I wish. With the AppleTV i'd need to configure iTunes on the Win7 PC to handle any media I want to stream to the AppleTV and have the AppleTV interface with the iTunes software on my Win7 PC. Unsure how easy that goes.
One prominent issue is a lot of my video is in .m2ts format and i'm not clear on if I can easily manage to stream this from the Win7 PC to my HDTV with AppleTV. Would I need to convert effectively 50gb's of that video to AppleTV format (.mp4?), could that be done on the fly by iTunes on Win7 PC with i7 CPU?
I have non tech literate folks I want to be able to easily stream to the HDTV which is why i'm favoring the AppleTV despite favoring the NUC if it were just for me.
Anyone run down the same tracks here and gotten to an easy place for non tech savvy household?
Interested in mainly streaming content from another PC (Win7 Pro) to my HDTV. From what I know with the NUC I can just access shared folder and have control over media players and play nearly any content I wish. With the AppleTV i'd need to configure iTunes on the Win7 PC to handle any media I want to stream to the AppleTV and have the AppleTV interface with the iTunes software on my Win7 PC. Unsure how easy that goes.
One prominent issue is a lot of my video is in .m2ts format and i'm not clear on if I can easily manage to stream this from the Win7 PC to my HDTV with AppleTV. Would I need to convert effectively 50gb's of that video to AppleTV format (.mp4?), could that be done on the fly by iTunes on Win7 PC with i7 CPU?
I have non tech literate folks I want to be able to easily stream to the HDTV which is why i'm favoring the AppleTV despite favoring the NUC if it were just for me.
Anyone run down the same tracks here and gotten to an easy place for non tech savvy household?