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Will my apple tv work overseas?

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EW EXPLORER
Latest post on 22 June 2013 - 15:05

Does anyone know if my apple tv will work overseas? I'm thinking it's be better than dragging along DVDs.

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 01 July 2013 - 09:46
hi how did you get three itunes accounts? you need a local address. Imhad one for uk, Australia but could not 'invent' and addss in US? How did you get the US one if you have never lived there?. thanks,
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EW OLDHAND
Latest post on 26 June 2013 - 13:52
Presently Apple do not appear to care where you download on iTunes from. Of course you are breaking the license agreement if you use an account outside of the region you are in but currently they do not check. I have a UK, US and AUS account. They are all set up on my AppleTVs so I can flip between whichever account I want to use. One of my AppleTVs was bought in the UK and the other one in Hong Kong. However I assume you are talking about an old AppleTV? Unless you plan on streaming from your laptop to a new one. Otherwise you will need an Internet connection wherever you are going. I personally have over 400 movies and around 2000-2500 TV episodes ripped to a few external drives which I use via my laptop when travelling (can plug laptop into TV), I ripped them all before leaving my home country and put the disks into storage to save carrying DVDs to Dubai. You can easily rip your DVDs using Handbrake and then if you are fussy like me you can tag them and add covers using MetaX.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 26 June 2013 - 10:13
Hi our Apple TV was from Australia - I have a UK itunes account and my hubby Aus so yes it should but you can only access from the country that your i tunes is in goodluck!!
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 23 June 2013 - 09:58
Hi We have apple tv and it works fine here. We have UK accounts ad can make purchases as normal. We don't have a VPN or anything else like that. I'm not a techie person so that's about the limit to what I know! Hope the move goes smoothly for you. :-)
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EW EXPLORER
Latest post on 23 June 2013 - 06:10
Thank you ladies - as it's not too big I'm going to give it a try.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 22 June 2013 - 19:28
Hi! I'm using my apple tv in Italy right now with a UK itunes account, no vpn so it should work ok. I'm hoping that will be the case when we move over in August!
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EW GURU
Latest post on 22 June 2013 - 19:19
The only thing that might affect the Apple TV being used globally is if the Apple geo-locks the various streaming servers for it. In other words, if the UK iTunes store only allows streaming to UK IP addresses, you will be blocked from using it from outside the UK. This can be circumvented with a router that has a built-in VPN.
 
 

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