PlayStation? Yeah, that's not the setup you want to try. If you have something like a Chromecast ($30) and a nice router (like a Nighthawk AC1900) and attached NAS with a few TB of storage, you can have everything you want locally streamed through a huge house for a cheap price... far less money and even more reliable than your setup. For outside entertainment and live streaming/data, you can connect with all sorts of services, apps, etc not available with the Apple TV. Best part is it works with any TV in the house. Just add another $30 device if you want multiples.
Yeah, - thanks for the ideas - but my point was that instead of sloughing though the possible solutions I went with Apple because I figured it would be reliable and easy to use. Other solutions might have been cheaper, reliable and more capabilities, but from my past experience with Apple devices I figured reliable and easy to use. For the TV all I cared about was Netflix and other sources. For the router, all I care is that it works - unlike all the others I've tried that I had to keep resetting or it didn't connect or dropped or I had to go through the fun parameter setups.
When I mess with things, it should be because I want to mess with things not because I have to in order to get it to work.
I like other solutions as much as the next hacker (old sense of the word); I mess with Linux all the time, I've gotten involved in the maker community recently, I literally drool at those little mini router computer thingys and am excited to learn that certain greeting cards with music chips can be messed with to control stuff that but for things that I don't feel like messing with (and even sometimes do) - Apple.
See - if it's compatible with what I want, it costs a bit more why not, I'll save on the number of times I'd need to replace the other guys product and save time and aggravation as well. I have other things I like to do with my time. |
