Apple TV Does SOME things Well
Sound is great. Putting photos up for screen savers is great. Playing certain programs and movies is great. BUT....
AppleTV does not play .mov files, which makes no sense to me. The basic premise is that if you can't import the file into an iTunes library, you can't play it on AppleTV. I have many .avi files and .mov files I have collected. Apple CLAIMS to have a conversion for those via Quicktime Pro or, if you can bring them into iTunes at all, you can convert them into a format compatible with iPods and AppleTV should play that. However, each .avi file I've tried, after it takes HOURS to convert 45 minutes worth of program, has excellent audio but a white screen for video. The same thing happened with a .mov file I tried. Attempting to import the .mov file directly into iTunes gives you a black screen. Of course, this is very disappointing. If it's yet another stupid DRM broken feature, I'm going to be unhappy.