Looking to Buy; Several Questions

1. I am ripping my entire DVD collection to several hds (over 1,000 dvd). They show
up in folder: VIDEO_TS. They play fine with Apple DVD player.
Will Apple TV Play this files? My family is using the WD TV live media hub and it works fine.
I really want to us Apple TV. Will this work.
Thanks for any help.

I'll answer anyway; the Apple TV cannot play those files, since they're MPEG-2 which the Apple TV cannot support. And if these are commercial and hence copy-protected DVDs, we can't discuss any solutions here since breaking the encryption on the DVD is illegal in the US due to the idiotic provisions in the DMCA.
Regards.

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