tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10935411.post7940583707836989714..comments2014-08-04T20:00:51.411-05:00Comments on TheMissionalPosition.com: Buzz of the Week: Apple TVThe Missional Positionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03753427590756857448noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10935411.post-17590581859240114902007-03-29T08:10:00.000-05:002007-03-29T08:10:00.000-05:00The EVA8000 that you mentioned is probably going t...The EVA8000 that you mentioned is probably going to be a lot more versatile for your ministry. The Apple TV is intentionally crippled to only accept video from specific places (read: iTunes) and in specific formats. It is, more or less, another vehicle for Apple to try to sell you licenses for its media library.<BR/><BR/>But with an EVA8000 you can take a donated machine of an older vintage, slap a $100 hard disk in it and install Linux. Drop all of your videos onto this "server". TV's at various points around the church can be synchronized (in "party mode") or can operate independently of one another. You've got 802.11g wireless built-in, and support for 1080p HDTV (Apple only goes to 720p).<BR/><BR/>Other than the glamorous name and likely more polished (though minimalist) software interface, I don't see the point of going with Apple while the Netgear box is available at a similar price point and will offer your ministry far greater flexibility.<BR/><BR/>If you go this route, check out the free <A HREF="http://www.videolan.org/" REL="nofollow">VideoLAN media player</A> which can not only stream to the EVA8000, it can transcode DVD's into the efficient h.264 codec to store your videos on the cheap Linux box I mentioned earlier. VideoLAN runs on just about any kind of operating system so it's not a Linux-only thing.viridarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03053760632744352536noreply@blogger.com