apple tv is it like media center?

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i use my 360 with WMC for streaming video to tv from my pc at the moment, is it worth getting apple tv? i dont plan on renting movies just streaming stuff.

is it better than using a 360 to do this? if so how?
 
Yea as casdawer said, unless your media is centralised around iTunes its not going to offer streaming as you do now!

As I see it the Apple TV is mainly about movie rentals.
 
The old apple TV could be hacked though to run boxee or Plex and this would be better than the xbox 360 (quieter at least!) and was 1080p (just about) capable - only when hacked mind.
 
The OP can do what he wants with the older previous gen ATV, as I was in the same situation. My 360 was used as a media streamer but given that MS have chosen to completely ignore the media side of the 360 I gave up about a year and a half ago.

I run a standard ATV hacked with a 'Patchstick', that contains XBMC amongst a heap of other stuff. This all just latches onto the front end UI and can easily be removed if required.

The ATV then plays back virtually any media format via XBMC as my ATV is wired to my network and can see all my video media on my main PC. The only limitation is that the previous gen ATV struggles with certain 720p encoded content due to its ancient CPU.

It's a superb replacement for the clumsy 360 setup though. It's sad that MS just chose to pretty much do sod all with it.
 
The old apple TV could be hacked though to run boxee or Plex and this would be better than the xbox 360 (quieter at least!) and was 1080p (just about) capable - only when hacked mind.

My ATV running Boxee struggled with real 720p. It had no chance with 1080p of any description.

I really wanted it to work well and do what I wanted but it just wasn't up to it.
 
If you want another solution other than your Xbox or a solution like the ATV, get yourself a WDTV Live. Although not wireless (there is a list of compatible wiress dongles to make it wireless) the format support is a million times better, its cheaper, just as small and it can play files from any usb stick or hard drive.

On the jailbreaking/hacking note, the guys who did the aTV Flash for the original ATV have released a version for the new ATV but costs $50.
LINK
 
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