Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:15:02 -0500 Subject: Re: Home Movies on Apple TV Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps References: <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-sTEesy0PlOU6@localhost> <2015082208485339168-xxx@yyyzzz> <5_ydnVi9TLMvV0TInZ2dnUU7-c-dnZ2d@giganews.com> <0_OdndFQ3dnBDkbInZ2dnUU7-RGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <2015082509050624035-xxx@yyyzzz> From: Alan Browne Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 12:15:02 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2015082509050624035-xxx@yyyzzz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 60 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-coW2Ouiek4A54VU9L+L+pDqUa7E+T+ielLA1o+CmRzpoPcXbhhcgGb8n9Mw1aWi0HdSS8jNQYS9Xmo1!VPZVQyLdf6HzVxAJhs6vbNp4tKkAHNCMhE0n/pJDnYzmlGIzPF/jTbOdKU/wyFWbtMYQ1m0XxQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3878 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:31250 On 2015-08-25 12:05, gtr wrote: > On 2015-08-25 15:52:46 +0000, Alan Browne said: > >> On 2015-08-24 21:07, Jolly Roger wrote: >>> On 2015-08-24, Alan Browne wrote: >>>> On 2015-08-24 12:17, Jolly Roger wrote: >>>>> On 2015-08-24, Alan Browne wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I'd lose more time than that fucking around with iTunes in order that >>>>>> it be ready to save that 30 seconds. >>>>> >>>>> Not here. It takes a couple seconds to drag a digital media file into >>>>> iTunes. Must be you. >>>> >>>> It takes a "couple seconds" once you've _located_ it, or after it's >>>> been >>>> loaded in a DVD player and mounted. >>>> >>>> You're just moving the point where the effort takes place and >>>> calling it >>>> a savings where none has happened. >>> >>> Nonsense. All I do is press a couple buttons on my remote to navigate to >>> the thing I want to play. In most cases, it's one to three button >>> presses (Computers > Movies > Blah for instance). >> >> Whoosh. When you first loaded the movie into iTunes you put the >> effort "then" as opposed to when you played it via the ATV. >> >> >>> >>> In contrast, you have to: >>> >>> 1. Log into your computer. >>> 2. Spotlight search for the file you want to play. >>> 3. Open the file in QuickTime Player or some other suitable app. >>> 4. Play the movie through AirPlay. >> >> Log into my computer takes about 2 sec. >> Spotlight, same >> that launches the video app. Pretty much instant. >> Press the AirPlay button. 1 second. >> >> The ATV is always ON, so when I turn on the television, the movie is >> ready. >> >> >>> >>> Your AirPlay-from-computer method is much more slow and cumbersome. >>> That's all there is to it. >> >> No. Not really. Only in your defense of your preferences. From time >> to time, yes, I'll spend more time looking for some obscure video. >> But then it's the same in iTunes when I'm looking for some obscure >> music - would be the same with an obscure video. > > This is some of the more amuzing hair-splitting I've seen in manyl years. Glad to be of service.