First month with AppleTV

If you remember my post Mac OSX DLNA Server for Samsung TV, I tried to make possible streaming from my computer to TV. Finally I decided to use Serviio but it did not work reliably enough. I have to restart DLNA server almost daily so I got tired and decided that $99 for something that solves this problem is OK.

I got Apple TV cause it works with iTunes out of the box. No additional software is required. As a bonus I can stream movies from Netflix which is quite nice and allows me to cancel cable TV. When small box arrived I was expecting easy setup and surely it just worked after connecting HDMI cable. Most complicated part was setting up Wi-Fi using tiny remote control. In general this thing needs some sort of keyboard otherwise typing text, searches, etc is real pain. Next I just turned on Home Sharing on my iTunes and I can watch my movies on TV.

Is it perfect solution?  No really, box hangs from time to time but I can reset it directly from remote without going to other room. iTunes occasionally got issues too. Overall reliability is much higher than from my previous setup. I am looking forward for future updates. I hope one day you can use AirPlay from Mac to stream anything to Apple TV.