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Apple TV or BluRay player

I am debating whether to take the BluRay plunge or just get an Apple TV to watch movies. I am not much of a videophile, but was recently very impressed w/ picture quality of my friends Sony PS3 feeding my 1080i projector. We fed audio via toslink to my dac and the sound quality is also very good. I am planning to keep everything 2 channel; even though my current pics on my virtual system show otherwise. My goal is to keep it simple; (seems to reap better results in audio). Question, tho' - can one play current dvd collection onto Apple TV, or does one require "digital copy"? I only have 2 digital copy movies on my iMac. Apple site does not appear to indicate ability to play dvd's.
ericjcabrera

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kennyt
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I run both in both my systems, the AppleTV is cool for a convenient music server, but as the above poster said, it is only 720p. Blu-ray will give you 1080p AND uncompressed audio. The difference between DVD/AppleTV and BLu-ray when it comes to audio (even in two channel) will be significant.

I would recommend both but if you can't swing both at this time the Blu-ray player will give you more performance for the $$.
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