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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Home Movies on Apple TV
Date: 23 Aug 2015 01:02:44 GMT
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On 2015-08-23, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-08-22 11:48, gtr wrote:
>>
>> This is a fine work-around, but it doesn't allow storage and
>> organization in a convenient location for all your video where you can
>> poke around and watch what you want from the comfort of your livingroom
>
> The hell it doesn't.  Finder locates any video very quickly and plays it 
> quicker.  Nothing is more convenient than Finder.

Huh? It's far simpler and faster to use a remote control on my TV with
an Apple TV connected (four button presses: Computers > My Computer
> Movies > Play) than it would be to log into a computer, open a folder
(possibly navigating around for a bit), double-click a movie, and play
it through AirPlay.

> Using Spotlight or 
> CMD-F I can find 90% of videos in less than 1 s.  The rest are hard 
> because they are older files with bad names and no keywords tagged to them.

Meanwhile, I've already started my movie with the remote. : D

> iTunes is more and more of a sickening spaghetti morass of shit than it 
> ever was - and it was a sickening spaghetti morass of shit 5 years ago.

To the contrary, iTunes Home Sharing makes media consumption quite
effortless in this house. It's available wherever I need it with nice,
easy-to-use interfaces.

>> any time you like.  iTunes is great for that, but you do have to get all
>> the video in question into iTunes.
>
> That's half the battle of stupid, useless time wasting idiocy that Apple 
> foist upon us ...

Hasn't presented any obstacles to me. Maybe you are allowing yourself to
be defeated too easily. ; )

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