Qwpzxjor1 Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 Anyone know if Apple TV or equivalent systems allow you to store all your films and TV Shows on external hard drives and connect them to it without having it connected to a computer also? I'm looking for a long term solution for storing and streaming all my films on a few external hard drives. I only own a laptop though and I don't really want to have my whole library come through that, would rather just go directly to the files. Happy to use the laptop to organise and create Library, etc, I just don't want the laptop to have to be running each time I want to watch the films.. Can anything like this be set up? If so, what's the best way to go about it? My brother has Apple TV and it works fantastically, but he connects it to his iMac's Library so I'm just not sure I can use it to do what I want to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 You can with apple tv but you will need to jail break it and install XMBC first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwpzxjor1 Posted June 13, 2012 Author Share Posted June 13, 2012 Cheers. Rather not do any jailbreaking and such forth. Are there any other systems out there other than Apple TV? I don't have stuff organised in iTunes (except music), most of the stuff I owe is on DVD and I'm yet to digitise it, so I'm not restricted to iTunes.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b23avfc Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 I saw a Roku TV in maplins going cheap. Might work for you. I use ATV2 and 3, just jailbroken the 2, never jb'd an apple item before. It was pretty easy and painless and now I've played with xbmc a bit i'm warming to it. I streamed a 720p movie last night for example with no buffering at all. Schweet. May not be allowable though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b23avfc Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Oh also this chap I know uses Boxee (something like that) on a windows system and it's pretty sweet for what you want to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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