My Cloud compatibility with Apple TV 4th Gen – AppleTV 4 Jailbreak (appletv4jailbreak.com)

Looks like I missed out on the fun here tonight, because we actually went out tonight! Anyway, adding my 2-cents to the discussion. Gaming issues aside (not a gamer}, although played Angry Birds, too, for a week or so when we got a newer Roku a few years ago, and haven’t played it since. Although if I was a gamer, I would get the best game machine, not look for an all purpose gadget like Roku, Fire TV or Apple TV to satisfy my gaming addiction.

I also think Apple bashing is perfectly acceptable here. Maybe some hapless Apple fan, so caught up in the Apple ecosystem, will see the light and discover there is another way; maybe even a better way.

Nevertheless, I’m not a total Apple-basher; we do each have iPhones and iPads, and when it comes to DLNA, I have apps on them that can stream music and video on the devices and/or stream to WDTV, it is also not a problem with these devices. With the File Browser app on them, they can play shared media on them or to WDTV, as well as to the el cheapo priced Chromecast2.

BTW, DLNA is overrated, because by having a device like a WDTV and shared devices that can be accessed, it overrides DLNA, making it unnecessary. In case no one noticed, DLNA is mostly there for the masses of people who could not construct a home network using network-shared devices if their life depended on it. All one needs to play DLNA media is a wireless router, a media source and a Smart TV. No understanding of home networks or shares needed. But, as we know, there is a cost to streaming media via DLNA, (can’t play videos from ISO; music is often in alpha order instead of track order, A plus of DLNA is it can play from playlists and shared devices can’t.,so for that I appreciate DLNA. It’s the best thing about it.

An area where I feel Apple really screwed their true-believers started with iOS 8, when they stopped allowing folks to play or stream videos residing on a hard drive, wireless drive or NAS that they downloaded from Apple Store. They only can play them on an Apple device nowadays. (Although, I read recently where someone said he re-encoded his Apple videos to remove the copy protection so he could play the videos (he purchased) from a wireless drive on to his iPad. Clever. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this procedure?)

My 2-cents.

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