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A must have free Mac app, which allows you to play & Airplay ANY content from your Mac to your AppleTV Perfect for when the small included remote goes astray ! Download the awesome Apple Remote iPhone & iPad app, which allows you to connect & control the AppleTV.

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Just follow these steps on Jason’s blog for a How-To on how to get Netflix setup in South Africa

If you really feeling at a loss for content, you can sign up for a Netflix account.

Also hidden in the Internet menu, is “ Podcasts” which allow you to stream the latest episode of your favorite video or Audio podcasts.

This is a great feature if you want to play background music, or are interested in a specific topic

Hidden away at the bottom of the Internet menu on the AppleTV is a section called “ Radio” which gives you access to thousands & thousands of online streaming stations.

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The cost of renting a movie is well priced in comparison to DVD rentals. I would highly recommend a 4MB ADSL line, as your movies start streaming almost immediately once you have rented them. 2 things you need to ensure though Make sure you have credit on your US iTunes account by topping up with iTunes vouchers & ensure you have a decent ADSL line.

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Movie Rentals & TV Show Rentals are awesome.You need a little bit of tech savvy to do this, but it is quite simple once you get the hang of it. Once that is done, follow these steps on the Plex Wiki, to get Plex installed. The really cool thing about Plex is it goes and gets all the movie or TV show information, and displays it on-screen. To Jailbreak the AppleTV, I recommend using Seas0nPass, and following the steps makes this a really simple process. Basically Plex allows you to watch any existing AVI’s or MKV files (over WiFi) you have on a PC/Mac that is running the Plex Server software.

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Although I am not a big fan of Jailbreaking, I would recommend Jailbreaking the AppleTV & install Plex.

You can also view your photos on your iDevice, by clicking the AirPlay button. This works awesome with Youtube Videos as well. This means that if you have an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, and are listening to music or watching a video on the iDevice, you can automatically start streaming it to your Apple TV, by tapping the Airplay icon.

Turn AirPlay ON, on the AppleTV by going to Settings -> Airplay & On.

Listen via Internet Radio or Digital Music Receivers (Squeezebox. Handbrake offers a preset specifically for AppleTV2 DVD or BluRay players not directly supported. I used Handbrake, which allows you to “rip” your DVD’s into a M4V format, which you can then import into iTunes, and the Apple TV sees using Home Sharing.

Even though the AppleTV doesn’t play DVD’s, I have backed up a lot of mine (especially the kids) and store them on my iMac.

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You need to enable this on the AppleTV as well by going to Settings -> Computers -> Home Sharing & entering your Home Sharing username & password (iTunes account) Setup Home Sharing in iTunes, which will allow your AppleTV to browse your iTunes library on your PC/Mac.

if you haven’t got one yet, I highly recommedn heading over to the WildTwig guys, and ordering one. I thought I would put together a few tips & tricks of what I have learnt over the past couple of weeks with the AppleTV. The intergration with all my other iDevices is simply amazing, and everything just works. Pausing the stream, like I did to take this screen shot, slightly increased that lag.As I mentioned the other day, I am loving the AppleTV at the moment. Second, there was a distinct lag between what was going on at the Mac and what was being shown on the Apple TV. It remained reasonably readable at all times. So what are the downsides? First, the image was a bit blurry due to the H.264 transcoding and the limited bit rate, but it wasn't too bad. All other instructions remain the same as from the DVD post. Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC -vv screen:// -intf=rc '-sout=#transcode' | mediastreamsegmenter -f /Library/WebServer/Documents/stream -D Instead of streaming from my DVD (namely via I substituted screen://, as follows. I decided to test it out using the same method I described in my earlier DVD-to-Apple TV post. TUAW reader James Low wondered if you could stream your OS X screen using the screen:// feature of VLC along the lines of the instructions found on this blog post.

That screen you're looking at there? It's not my Mac.

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