As what I'm trying to accomplish is fairly complex, I've included a diagram.
I'd like our family to move completely to a digitized library so that we don't have to deal with disc media any longer. Plus, we might be able to get rid of satellite, but that's irrelevant right now.
I want to move to Apple TVs for this, but the setup is kind of complex, so I'd like to get some input on what I'm doing right and wrong and any tips you'd have on making this setup work.
So we have our AirPort Extreme which currently only handles Internet access to our family iMac and my Mac Pro and MacBook Pro. We'd be buying three Apple TVs (one now and two of the next model that can handle 1080p out) and streaming two iTunes libraries between them.
Each library will be held on its own hard drive in an LG NAS connected via Ethernet to the AirPort Extreme.
Library 1 is kids' stuff (music, movies, TV shows, etc.) and will be pushed to the A4 Apple TV.
Library 2 will be everything else and will be pushed to the A5 Apple TVs when they start existing. I'm waiting for the next model because of the large amount of 1080p content I have that I don't feel should be downconverted.
This LG NAS is a bother, however. It formats its drives NFS, so OS X can't write to them. This leads me to believe that the Apple TV won't be able to even see these drives, much less the iTunes libraries contained within them.
I guess my list of problems is thus:
1. Get this stupid NAS to give me a writable drive format.
2. Figure out how to structure the iTunes libraries on the hard drives so that they can be read/seen by Apple TVs (I figure it's the same folder hierarchy as iTunes on a computer, so if it is, I can test without much worry).
3. Find somewhere that will take back an open Apple TV without a restocking fee if it can't see the libraries on the network.
And probably half a dozen other things of which I haven't yet thought.
Any help would be appreciated.

I'd like our family to move completely to a digitized library so that we don't have to deal with disc media any longer. Plus, we might be able to get rid of satellite, but that's irrelevant right now.
I want to move to Apple TVs for this, but the setup is kind of complex, so I'd like to get some input on what I'm doing right and wrong and any tips you'd have on making this setup work.
So we have our AirPort Extreme which currently only handles Internet access to our family iMac and my Mac Pro and MacBook Pro. We'd be buying three Apple TVs (one now and two of the next model that can handle 1080p out) and streaming two iTunes libraries between them.
Each library will be held on its own hard drive in an LG NAS connected via Ethernet to the AirPort Extreme.
Library 1 is kids' stuff (music, movies, TV shows, etc.) and will be pushed to the A4 Apple TV.
Library 2 will be everything else and will be pushed to the A5 Apple TVs when they start existing. I'm waiting for the next model because of the large amount of 1080p content I have that I don't feel should be downconverted.
This LG NAS is a bother, however. It formats its drives NFS, so OS X can't write to them. This leads me to believe that the Apple TV won't be able to even see these drives, much less the iTunes libraries contained within them.
I guess my list of problems is thus:
1. Get this stupid NAS to give me a writable drive format.
2. Figure out how to structure the iTunes libraries on the hard drives so that they can be read/seen by Apple TVs (I figure it's the same folder hierarchy as iTunes on a computer, so if it is, I can test without much worry).
3. Find somewhere that will take back an open Apple TV without a restocking fee if it can't see the libraries on the network.
And probably half a dozen other things of which I haven't yet thought.
Any help would be appreciated.

PhilBoogie
That's Google alright. For a stupid company they sure do dumb things.
That's Google alright. For a stupid company they sure do dumb things.
PhilBoogie
That's Google alright. For a stupid company they sure do dumb things.
That's Google alright. For a stupid company they sure do dumb things.







: For something as simple as the Apple TV is supposed to be, this seems needlessly complicated. The Apple TV should be able to see network iTunes libraries if they have the proper files in the main folder...