I have a 27-inch iMac in a room upstairs, and an apple TV linked to my 55-inch TV in the living room. If I understand correctly, by using the RowMote application on my iphone (standard or pro version ??), I could wake up the iMac from my living room, start airplay to see its screen on my TV, then select a video and run it with VLC, doing all that sitting on my couch without having to go upstairs to start the video on my iMac.
Is this really true ? Would that mean that my iMac upstairs + apple TV in the living room would become some kind of HTPC solution ?
That seems wonderful, but I'd like to make sure I understood correctly. No need to buy a Mac Mini for HTPC use only if what I have already can answer my needs