In my experience, the Apple TV&#x27;s native subtitle rendering (which seems to be identical to QuickTime Player&#x27;s rendering) is atrocious. It doesn&#x27;t understand styled subtitles (e.g. separate colors for separate speakers, or bold&#x2F;italics&#x2F;etc.), or Unicode characters in subtitles, or subtitle screen-placement directives, and it frequently manages to do stupid things like displaying  comment lines left in the subtitle file as if they were part of the text.<p>Watching subtitled video is the main reason I have a Mac Mini plugged into my TV.