If you like to play in Apple's "Walled Garden" you'll love it (MC572LL)

If you like to play in Apple's "Walled Garden" you'll love it (MC572LL)

November 26, 2011, By RagtimeWillie

This review is from: MC572LL (NEWEST VERSION) (Electronics)

I don't have anything to add that other reviewers haven't covered, no do I have any insights that might help you decide between an Apple TV MC572LL and one of the handful of viable alternative products in this market space.

I use Apple TV MC572LL more for accessing my media library than for viewing internet content. It seems to work equally well at this task whether it is pulling media from a Apple Mac or a Windows-based PC -- as long as you have iTunes installed and configured, which is pretty easy. Even if you have your media stored in Windows Media Player or Windows Media Center, that content is accessible once iTunes is installed and configured. Apple did this by design: the geniuses there must assume that you are connecting it through a higher end sound system. My older Mini Mac, connected in the same fashion and using the exact same remote, allows one to control the volume of the TV MC572LL. At the time of my review, the price has dropped a bit, which makes it even more attractive. 

I doubt we'll ever get access to Amazon Prime instant videos via Apple TV MC572LL, nor will we get access to some of the other popular subscription-based services that Apple is blocking. That's business. Hulu Plus -- very doubtful at this writing. But these are the tradeoffs we must endure if we want a reliable, beautiful, simple to use device sold by Apple.

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