It's kinda ridiculous to rage out about their support of a popular piracy format. If you're ripping your own digital copies, MP4 works just fine. and it's also great for Netflix and iTunes Store. Plus you can AirPlay from any other Apple device. Heck you can AirPlay vlc from your computer and watch pretty much whatever format.
Anyway, there are plenty of options out there between chromecasts and rokus and whatever else. By all means get the one that suits your needs best, its just silly to say something is objectively crap because it doesn't suit your specific usage needs.
what piracy? mkv is just a container. i have ripped my movies straight to mkv's without changing their formats and not going to convert them just because atv cannot play them without a specific format. i prefer to use devices that can do what i want them to do and work fine with all platforms and support multiple formats rather than only couple.
yes there are many other and cheaper options than crippled atv (no dts for example)i use android tv box, and can use playstore and apps i have already bought once, airplay/mirroring all my devices (osx/win or android/ios) and streaming straight from the nas for example. it also support bt keyboard and mouse, if using skype on it etc.
just saying that if you own ios, it doesnt meant that you
need to buy another expensive device from apple which will cause gray hairs immediately when you are doing alittle bit more than just using "apple services"...
