Hi I'm thinking of buying an apple TV, but was wondering if i can stream videos from my computer (windows PC) that aren't in iTunes. Or do i have to put all my movies in iTunes to watch on the apple TV?

can someone please help? thanks

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Send Apple some feedback indicating some of the reasons you won't be getting one:
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