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We are a hotel in Thailand that has purchased 88 Apple TV for our rooms so that Guest may enjoy, pictures, music & movies. . .
We are now facing many issues:
When adding / deleting only 1 items from the whole selection the loading process take over 1 hour, while it should only take a few seconds if compared to an ipod update.
The Apple TV are set with a password so that the the computer can recognize only 5 apple TV at a time so th synchronisation is a nightmare.
We need to speed up the Sync process as it now takes over 1 hour to load all the info ( 32 GB)
We need to plug the Master Library computer to our network so that we can synchronise all our Apple TV in one time.
The local Apple distributor from whom we purchased all these Apple Tv is unable to assist us.
Can anyone help or suggest a solution
Much Appreciated
RG

It sound like you may have several issues
1. Bandwidth is an issue - syncing 1 movie to 5 ATV's takes 5x longer than to 1 ATV.
2. One hour to move 32 GB to one ATV is not bad. That's about the max for wireless N or 100 M Ethernet. I may be wrong, but I don't think it can get much faster for the initial load. Once the initial load is made, then you will only need to sync changes. On the other hand, if each movie is 1 GB than you can only store 32 movies and there may have to be a of syncing. If you want a wide section of movies, the 160 GB may be a better choice.
3. As another poster stated 1 iTunes library can only link to 5 ATV's.
a. If your movies do not have DRM than you can copy your content 22 other instances of iTunes and do it that way. You can have all 22 copies of iTunes share the same files on the same disk, and if you run virtualization software you should be able to do it with 1 or 2 machines- Linux or MAC.
b. If you purchased the content to from the iTunes store, you are limited to 4 other copies of iTunes, each of which can sync to 5 ATV for a total of 25 ATV's for each copy of the iTunes store content.
c. You can stream your content from the master server to ATV's, and i don't think there is a limit on how many can stream from a single iTunes. However, you will need a robust server to handle requests from 88 ATV's. In this case, no data is stored on the ATV's
d. Contact Apple corporate sales. They may have specially licensed copies of iTunes and ATV software that can sync to more than 5 machines.
All said, you can make this work - especially if you have a tech savvy staff person or consultant. However, it does not sound like the standard iTunes/ATV is the best solution.
Now if you want to fly me to Thailand, I'll make it work for you . I'll even learn the language.

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