Resolution of Home Sharing photos with Apple TV 3?

Let's say you have an Apple TV 3 and you have configured Home Sharing so the Apple TV 3 can view the photos in iPhoto on a Mac in your network. Using the Apple TV 3, are the photos displayed on your TV from iPhoto on the Mac in 1080p? I have an Apple TV 2 and the photo resolution does not seem super great compared to directly connecting the Mac to my TV. I asked at my local Apple Store and they didn't really know.

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Obviously not, the Apple TV 2 can only output 720p.

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I've tried repairing permissions, rebooting my computer, quiting and restarting iTunes, and quiting and restarting Home Sharing.
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I've solved the problem.
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Many thanks.

Sorry there was a typo in the last sentence of my first paragraph. It sould have read " I cannot get home sharing to work with the Apple TV3, but it works fine with the Apple TV2."
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Welcome to the Apple Community.
The following article(s) may help you.
Troubleshooting Homesharing
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AppleTV 3 generation v5.2
Linksys E2500 Linksys
WET610N Dual-Band Wireless-N Gaming and Video Adapter (connects to pc) or Access Point
I change the settings for WMM on the Linksys WET610N.
What is Wi-Fi Multimedia?
Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), previously known as Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WME), is a subset of the 802.11e wireless LAN (WLAN) specification that enhances quality of service (QoS) on a network by prioritizing data packets according to four categories. Network administrators can change priority levels as they see fit. Ranging from highest priority to lowest, these categories are:
Voice: Giving voice packets the highest priority enables concurrent Voice over IP (VoIP) calls with minimal latency and the highest quality possible.
Video: By placing video packets in the second tier, WMM prioritizes it over all other data traffic and enables support for three to four standard definition TV (SDTV) streams or one high definition TV (HDTV) stream on a WLAN.
Best effort: Best effort data packets consist of those originating from legacy devices or from applications or devices that lack QoS standards.
Background: Background priority encompasses file downloads, print jobs and other traffic that does not suffer from increased latency.
http://homekb.cisco.com/Cisco2/ukp.aspx?pid=80&app=vw&vw=1&login=1&json=1&docid= d7c38a64b9024a82a0719aa99ef69177_17599.xml
Under Wireless    go to WMM
Access Mode      Video (select the drop down)
Video Use Aggregation: Yes
Accept Aggregation: Yes
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Max. Aggregation Size: 12000
Timeout Interval: 3
Min. Size of Packets in Aggregation: 10
ADDBA Timeout: 0
Aggregation Window Size: 64
CW min for STA: 7
CW max for STA: 15
AIFSN for STA:
TXOP for STA:
CW min for AP: 7
CW max for AP: 15
AIFSN for AP:
TXOP for AP:
Hope this helps someone, please let me know

Update
Also disable this feature on your router, the data packets are not being read correctly. Temporally while Apple figures this out.
Disabling WMM will just tell your router to stop regulating it, giving every bit of data transfer the same priority. Most routers come with it disabled by default, but some have it enabled by default as well.
http://homekb.cisco.com/Cisco2/ukp.aspx?vw=1&docid=90117747783a4c4f90599c2d28574daf_17223.xml&pid=80&respid=0&snid=2&dispid=0&cpage=search

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Hi all,
I would like to share photos with apple TV3 via iTunes "privat release".
On apple TV3 the option is available to take photos.
It tells that it has to be configured via iTunes/Erweitert/Fotos für Bereitstellung auswählen.
I marked the folders with the photos to share, but unfortunately the access via applte TV3
is not possible.
Is there anybody with an idea?
Thanks in advance
chees
jj

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Reverted the sharing settings back to the original folder location with all my 5,000 or so photos in and it also worked fine. Seems that a simple 'reboot' of the settings has resolved the problem.

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Hope someone can help. My wife and I have separate iTunes accounts with separate Apple IDs on separate PCs.
We both have HomeSharing turned on and can access each others music libraries from both PCs which is great. However when I try to access the home shared libraries from our devices (I have an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2, and my wife has an iPhone 5) when connected to the home network I can only see my own shared library on my devices and my wife can only see her own shared Library from her iPhone 5.
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Is there a way to see each others shared libraries on all our devices when we connect to the home network through wifi?
Many thanks!
Chris

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In order to do this, you would need to switch between the two Apple IDs used on each system in Settings > Music.
On iPhone, go to Settings > Music, then log in to Home Sharing using the same Apple ID and password.
iPhone User Guide - Home Sharing
http://help.apple.com/iphone/7/
Cheers,
Allen

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I must be missing something obvious here.

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Solved - at least all good so far.
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Hi, scok41.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Here is the best resource for troubleshooting steps when experiencing issues with Home Sharing.
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
Cheers,
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