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Tom
ClioSport Club Member
EV (s)
You got one? I have and its great. And i got netflix working. (if i could be bothered to pay for a decent VPN i'd use it)
We bought one so that our Mac Mini could go back to being used as a computer rather than a movie player. It's much more limited in what it does than the first generation, but then it's tiny, consumes virtually zero power and is completely silent and plays nicely with our phones (Airplay).
You can use iTunes home sharing to play content from your iTunes, bit of a pita because the account has to be logged in and iTunes running in order to be visible to the Apple TV, the sharing is probably the weakest part.
They need to do a deal with the BBC and bring iPlayer to it, then it'd be a much more attractive offering for the UK. Still, if they do open it to app developers then we should see a native BBC iPlayer client as the BBC are already working on a native client for other iOS devices, wouldn't hold my breath for this as it's still regarded as a "hobby" to Apple, they've obviously got grand designs on some future product and are iteratively trying things out.
You can use iTunes home sharing to play content from your iTunes, bit of a pita because the account has to be logged in and iTunes running in order to be visible to the Apple TV, the sharing is probably the weakest part.
They need to do a deal with the BBC and bring iPlayer to it, then it'd be a much more attractive offering for the UK. Still, if they do open it to app developers then we should see a native BBC iPlayer client as the BBC are already working on a native client for other iOS devices, wouldn't hold my breath for this as it's still regarded as a "hobby" to Apple, they've obviously got grand designs on some future product and are iteratively trying things out.
Clio 172
IIRC the newer ones don't have an internal hard drive and it streams it all online?
Not too sure how true that one is though.
I have an alternative made by iomega - AppleTV is excellent though.
Not too sure how true that one is though.
I have an alternative made by iomega - AppleTV is excellent though.
It has 8GB of internal flash which amongst other things it uses for caching streams. It is a streaming device, it's just that the way that it interacts with iTunes for streaming could do with a bit of streamlining.
If they sorted out the way iTunes sharing and streaming worked then it'd all be a lot slicker.
With the new Mac App store, will 27" not be big enough for now?
Oh and i use my ATV all the time. Its the original. I think its better than the new one. If only the old one had the software on it, its a shame.
A silver one
Could always sell it for £95?
I've been playing with ours more, it's a pretty nice piece of kit.
The restrictions on viewing content however suck, only being able to view what's available through iTunes home sharing is crap because iTunes home sharing is crap (iTunes has to be running on the user account that you want to view the movies from).
However, bizarrely Apple have made the protocol airplay protocol very simple, to the point that after an hour or so of writing a little bit of code I was able to pretend to be an Apple TV and watch a movie by "airplaying" it from my phone. (What that erica saduns Airplayer application does - I love the fact that she uses GPL tools in her apps but is not offering the same kind of freedom back). It's even simpler to pretend to be the iPhone.
Next step is to make a daemon that boots at system startup and presents a web interface for playing movies from all user accounts on the machine, so you hit play on the iPhone and it airplays direct to the Apple TV from the computer.
I Just hope they don't lock down the protocol.
The restrictions on viewing content however suck, only being able to view what's available through iTunes home sharing is crap because iTunes home sharing is crap (iTunes has to be running on the user account that you want to view the movies from).
However, bizarrely Apple have made the protocol airplay protocol very simple, to the point that after an hour or so of writing a little bit of code I was able to pretend to be an Apple TV and watch a movie by "airplaying" it from my phone. (What that erica saduns Airplayer application does - I love the fact that she uses GPL tools in her apps but is not offering the same kind of freedom back). It's even simpler to pretend to be the iPhone.
Next step is to make a daemon that boots at system startup and presents a web interface for playing movies from all user accounts on the machine, so you hit play on the iPhone and it airplays direct to the Apple TV from the computer.
I Just hope they don't lock down the protocol.
BG 182
have just been to blockbusters and rented a film, and got home to the postie having dropped off my Apple tv. what an awesome bit of kit. wont be visitng blockbuster ever again. its so easy to use. the only thing i dont like is searching on youtube for example, using the remote, its painful selecting letters!
can i use my mac in any way to stream youtube from mac -> apple tv, even its i need to jailbreak it?
thanks
can i use my mac in any way to stream youtube from mac -> apple tv, even its i need to jailbreak it?
thanks
It's good to watch films on ATV but I must admit sometimes I do enjoy goin to blockbuster and buying up a bargain. Not quite the same when renting from ATV
You can use the remote app for iPhone/iPod touch to control the ATV and it comes up with a keyboard on screen when searching.
Assuming you have either device!?
You can use the remote app for iPhone/iPod touch to control the ATV and it comes up with a keyboard on screen when searching.
Assuming you have either device!?
BG 182
ah, the remote app will do nicely
It's also apparently not very good, I know a couple of people with them and the list of problems, quirks and bugs that they have is enormous. It also doesn't help that boxee seem to have no interest in bringing the pc version up to the same version as the box version, at least if they did that they'd have a hope of getting something that behaved sanely out of the door.
Christopher
ClioSport Club Member
Z4M
Bugee Box. They're awful.
Christopher
ClioSport Club Member
Z4M
VERY tempted.
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