We finally rented a movie (Lars and the Real Girl - very good, highly recommend) and hooked the laptop up to the TV, a 42 inch HDTV 1080p. Used a DVI to HDMI cable and the picture was pretty good. It wasn’t HD, since Apple only allows HD rentals on Apple TV, but the movie was DVD quality. The only issue was the time it took to download, which was about 2 hours, and I plan AT&T more then Apple on that. My neighborhood is wired with fiber and I want a fiber speeds, not crappy DSL!