ATV as a movie storage? How?

Here is what I am wanting to do, and don't know if it is possible. I am trying to backup all of my movie to an external drive, around 100 dvd's using handbrake. Once I get them in a ATV format, what is the best way for them to be fully integrated into ATV library.
Here is what I have:
Airport Extreme Base Station 802.11n
No desktop computer - only laptops
Apple TV (only if this will work)
Plasma TV
USB/FW External Storage - 750 gb
I do not yet have ATV, so please explain the details. Can I simply use my USB drive hooked up to my Airport Extreme Base Station and stream it that way?
Please advise.

First you unless they changed sometime with the new update, you need to have itunes running on a computer to stream to apple tv. Unless you are running only off of what you have on the apple tv itself. Here is my setup.
Lynksys Router
Western Digital Mybook World NAS
Old Dell Laptop Computer Running Itunes - always on my media server
My apple tv accesses all my content from the laptop, which points to all
my movies on the NAS drive. All of this is wired, I don't use wireless. My drive is a 1TB drive. Have never had problems streaming. All movies load within a sec or 2 and play without interuption. I actually left out that I have mutiple Mybooks connected and all work fine.

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I am thinking about an ATV or actually two of them (one in the theater and one in the family room). I have a couple of questions. First a little background, I have an Imac and macbook with a Time Capsule I use just for backing up the computers. I have ethernet at both the locations I am interested in putting an ATV.
First questions is simple, can I have two ATV's on the same network?
Second, while I am probably not interested in ripping old stuff, if I start buying movies via Itunes, I would like to store them on another external hard drive and be able to access to both ATV's, is this practical? I guess I ask about external hard drives because I assume I will eventually fill up the ATV's.
Third, can one ATV access a movie on another ATV?
Finally, I am not interested in a real elaborate setup just something easy to use. Will ATV meet that objective?
Thanks in advance

MGD80 wrote:
First questions is simple, can I have two ATV's on the same network?
yes, no problems with that.
Second, while I am probably not interested in ripping old stuff, if I start buying movies via Itunes, I would like to store them on another external hard drive and be able to access to both ATV's, is this practical? I guess I ask about external hard drives because I assume I will eventually fill up the ATV's.
the appletv cannot (and should not) be used as a primary storage device. it should only ever have copied of your media (not the only copy). anything you purchase on the appletv will auto sync back to your primary itunes library.
Third, can one ATV access a movie on another ATV?
no, appletv can only take stored content from your itunes library on a pc/mac.
Finally, I am not interested in a real elaborate setup just something easy to use. Will ATV meet that objective?
i'm sure it will assuming that you don't try to use it for something it wasn't designed to be.. ie a storage device or media server. the appletv is a client device and should be looked at as an ipod your tv.

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See Apple's preview of the new Photos for Mac: http://www.apple.com/osx/photos-preview/
Fill your library, not your device.
iCloud Photo Library can help you make the most of the space on your devices. When you choose "Optimize Mac Storage", it stores all your full-resolution photos and videos in iCloud in their original formats, while keeping storage-saving versions on each device. When you make an edit, the original image will download automatically. You get 5GB of free storage in iCloud — and as your library grows, you have the option to choose a plan for up to 1TB.
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What are you actually trying to do? Why do you need "DVD size" folders if you're creatng an Archive on an external hard drive?
Also, I understand burning folders instead of individual photos or albums gives you more space on a DVD.
It makes no difference at all.
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I also thought I should download future photos to my Canon programming that comes with EOS cameras and edit and then decide which photos to save to iPhoto library and which to save only to my archival HD?
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You're somewhat confused and you need to
1. Decide what exactly you want to do
2. Then go about it.
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You can have an archive on an external disk, you can sort and select and edit with or via iPhoto
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TD

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