So... I cannot watch movie on DVD on my HDTV?

With a cable from my MacBook to my HDTV, I can watch a movie on DVD or anything that I  to pull up the MacBook.  Now, unless I am wrong, I cannot use the setup Apple TV instead of the cable?   Reading over what Apple says about the Apple TV, I thought it would be possible to do this, but now, with the Apple TV setup, it looks like I am limited to what Apple wants me to see - YouTube, NetFlix, movies rented from iTunes and not too much more. Especially not TV shows that are on the Internet pages of TV stationss or DVDs.   That is a so big a surprise and disappointment because the cable is a a nuisance and did not carry the audio, which I had to use another cable or to speakers or use the MacBooks speakers. Did I read the product information completely wrong or what?
If I am all wrong with this, please tell me how to do this. Thanks.

donaldfromoak hill wrote:
Did I read the product information completely wrong or what?
Yes and no.
AppleTV is limited in the formats it can play natively but very recent Macs (post 2011) running Montain Lion have the ability to Airplay the screen to the AppleTV - that still doesn't work for Apple's DVD player though as it won't mirror protected content.
You could try Airparrot (which has mixed reviews) to do Airplay in software.
VLC might allow Airplay of a DVD.
If you have non-protected video you could convert it to h264 format and add to iTunes, but we cannot discuss circumventing commerical DVD protection.
AC

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