Macworld shows us how to get DVDs on your Apple TV

There is no need to use Apple TV as an iPod. Don't worry about syncing...rip your DVDs with Handbrake/MediaFork, store them on an external hard drive, reference the movies in iTunes, and stream (not sync) them to Apple TV.

I am currently doing this with 250gb of MP4 DVD content over a wireless-g network. Works like a charm.

DVD players will eventually go the way of the 8-track player. If you have kids and scratched DVD media, you will really see the value in ripping.

I'm trying to improve this process a bit. I regularly pull all my Netflix and EyeTV recordings into iTunes. I've been refining the process for a long time, since I like to have plenty of video ready to go when I travel. Now, it's also turning out to be a good way to shove things in to Apple TV. Since there's interest, I decided I would try and share my work. I might even try to give it a pretty face.

If anybody's interested in trying it out, there's an open source project at google code here:
http://code.google.com/p/submerge-in-appletv/

I think post 4 pretty much highlights how ridiculous of a proposition the AppleTV is. It's way too much work to get your existing media to work with AppleTV, and your free hard drive storage takes a major hit too. It's a lot quicker for me to just burn an EyeTV recorded video to DVD than it is to encode it into iPod format. I'm sure Apple will sell a lot of these things, but I just don't think the buyers would have properly considered how much time it would take to make their new toy work for them.

how about putting the dvd in your dvd player. that might work.

I defy you to find an Apple TV owner who doesn't have a DVD player.

Maybe someone will find a way to get AppleTV to play Video_TS folders like DVD Player.app can.

Then we can use Mac The Ripper to rip the said DVDs without taking the time to convert them initially, which can easilly be done later with the ripped files.

Crack open the Apple TV and replace the harddrive with something larger. Just google for more information.

Only problem,how do I fit 150 movies and 11 seasons of television on a 40GB HD? I know I can put them on my computer, but that is used for other things.