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Crucial

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Apple TV makes getting US Netflix easy. That's pretty much what i use it for. Handy for renting movies too. 
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Actually I forgot that you don't need to VPN for US Netflix if you set up a US iTunes account and point your AppleTV to it.

Virgil

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="544398" data-time="1448477064">Does anyone here have Apple TV? The mrs has suggested we get another way of watching tv I don't use to go with Netflix and light box . Worth getting ? Easy to set up?</blockquote>
 
Have 2 of them, one in the bedroom for the girls ( and me at night) so easy to use Netflix my 5 year old knows how to use it. 
The US one is better

dK

Had the Apple TV4 demo'ed and it is now the next gadget in the DK household.
 
Key features for me
<ul><li>Plex TV app</li>
<li>The ability to search using Siri for all movies across your subscriptions, for me Plex (own movie library), iTunes, Netflix. You can have fuzzy searches such as best action movies of the 1990's and it will show the full list across all your sources, you can continue refining them by, only Stallone movies, which refines it further. Select the movie you want to watch and it will give you a choice of source to use.</li>
<li>Pretty good looking Game apps</li>
<li>Remote Control, easy to use (but expensive if you lose or break it)</li>
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Virgil

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Actually I forgot that you don't need to VPN for US Netflix if you set up a US iTunes account and point your AppleTV to it.
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Didnt realise that, ive been subscribing to Unotelly most of the year now. Whats great is you can switch between all 20 odd Netflix territories and pick your preferred content. They even have a website that allows you to search for a particular tv show or movie on Netflix and it tells you which region its available in.
You would be surprised how much fucken Mexico has..

Rembrandt

I've recently bought a Raspberry Pi 2 for all of my TV and movie watching. Its about the size of a deck of cards and plugs into the hdmi of your tv. Its basically allows any layman the ability to access all those video streams online without running the risk of viruses. Can get pretty much any tv show or movie thats ever come out and even can run international streams including sky sports. Also as an added bonus it can wirelessly play media from any device on your network and can be controlled using your smartphone. Needless to say I just don't download any more now. As to the legality of it well I don't know much about that...

Siam

BBC Nature doco series called The Hunt - spectacular vision
 
Attenborough narrating and according to him, the most money spent, best directors and camera people available
 
Really really good

jegga

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BBC Nature doco series called The Hunt - spectacular vision
 
Attenborough narrating and according to him, the most money spent, best directors and camera people available
 
Really really good
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That is superb, the behind the scenes episodes are always worth watching too. His cameramen go to extraordinary lengths to get footage for him.

phoenetia

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I've recently bought a Raspberry Pi 2 for all of my TV and movie watching. Its about the size of a deck of cards and plugs into the hdmi of your tv. Its basically allows any layman the ability to access all those video streams online without running the risk of viruses. Can get pretty much any tv show or movie thats ever come out and even can run international streams including sky sports. Also as an added bonus it can wirelessly play media from any device on your network and can be controlled using your smartphone. Needless to say I just don't download any more now. As to the legality of it well I don't know much about that...
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I built one of these with my 5 year old son, no instructions, remarkably simple.
What OS / media package are you using?

taniwharugby

TWD [spoiler]kinda expected that they would have to leave Alexandria, glad Diana is dead, never liked her character. 
Carl shoulda gone medieval on that dumb kids arse for being such a tard! 
As for the Morgan he is a moron.... 
Assume that was the season finale? [/spoiler]

jegga

Yeah the finale, Negan is more evil than the governer. 
 
Was stoked to see whats her face gone, hope her son is next.

Frye

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TWD [spoiler]kinda expected that they would have to leave Alexandria, glad Diana is dead, never liked her character. 
Carl shoulda gone medieval on that dumb kids arse for being such a tard! 
As for the Morgan he is a moron.... 
Assume that was the season finale? [/spoiler]
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Nope not the final. Just a break for Xmas. There are three more episodes in Feb.

taniwharugby

yeah I meant the daft mid-season finale...guess all those actors that play Zombies need a break from learning thier lines and how to walk like a zombie.

Rembrandt

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I built one of these with my 5 year old son, no instructions, remarkably simple. 
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Kodi 
Works an absolute treat, I cheated and bought it mostly configured though sure I could do it if I had more time/energy

phoenetia

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Rembrandt" data-cid="545748" data-time="1449042304">Kodi 
Works an absolute treat, I cheated and bought it mostly configured though sure I could do it if I had more time/energy</blockquote>
Yeah that's what I'm using too. Only disappointment so far is lack of Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master but otherwise, it's bloody brilliant.

Tim

I really like MPC-HC with MadVR.
 
Supports edge directed interpolation methods for upscaling, and 3D LUTs for colour correction.
 
There is one limitation:
 
DTS Express cannot be bitstreamed and only be decoded when using the ArcSoft DTS Decoder.
 
I don't think I've come across DTS Express yet though.

Siam

On the subject of documentaries, there are 90 minute docos "branded" on the BBC as "Storyville" - I'm yet to watch one that doesn't have me captivated
 
Recently:
 
Cartel Wars - Mexicans make Columbians look like a playgroup. Amazing story of Mr Mirales and corruption.
 
Lockerbie Pan Am bomb - dude whose brother died on that flight investigates who really did it
 
FBI Undercover - appalling tale of the US being dead set hypocrites, entrapping would be terrorists just to get TV soundbites and preserve their scare-mongering. 
 
Others dealing with fraudulent magicians, killer whales in captivity, Lance Armstrong - <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyville_(TV_series)'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyville_(TV_series)</a>
 
Lots of others too, and to my naive mind they do a pretty good job of laying out the facts

jegga

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On the subject of documentaries, there are 90 minute docos "branded" on the BBC as "Storyville" - I'm yet to watch one that doesn't have me captivated
 
Recently:
 
Cartel Wars - Mexicans make Columbians look like a playgroup. Amazing story of Mr Mirales and corruption.
 
Lockerbie Pan Am bomb - dude whose brother died on that flight investigates who really did it
 
FBI Undercover - appalling tale of the US being dead set hypocrites, entrapping would be terrorists just to get TV soundbites and preserve their scare-mongering. 
 
Others dealing with fraudulent magicians, killer whales in captivity, Lance Armstrong - <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyville_(TV_series)'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyville_(TV_series)</a>
 
Lots of others too, and to my naive mind they do a pretty good job of laying out the facts
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You might like this, I read it a few weeks back. <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/28/the-avenger'>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/28/the-avenger</a>

Rembrandt

So after a 3 year hiatus Peep Show's 9th and final season is finally here an it is some of the funniest yet. Get on board if you haven't seen it before. Very tempted to start again from the first episode.

Tim

If you want to watch an engrossing and intense(!) documentary about Mexico and the Cartels, I highly recommend <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4126304/'>Cartel Land</a>.

Siam

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If you want to watch an engrossing and intense(!) documentary about Mexico and the Cartels, I highly recommend <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4126304/'>Cartel Land</a>.
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Thanks Tim, that's the one I meant. Quite a ride as you see some hope from the Mexican side with a people's militia that takes back land from the cartels ...

The Silver Fern

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