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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Michał said 10:14PM on 2-12-2008
I just love this intro! It's gorgeous, what a lovely music!
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ScottW said 10:24PM on 2-12-2008
Nice video, thanks. But please look into manual focus for your video camera.
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Victor Agreda Jr said 11:37PM on 2-12-2008
not all cameras have manual focus, do they?
emil Hedaya said 10:27PM on 2-12-2008
Updating the software broke the link between my Mac and the Apple TV, so I had to un-pair and re-pair the two. Naturally, this deleted all the synced content, so here I am now re-syncing my 80+GB of movies and 30GB of Photos.
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jeff Williams said 10:46PM on 2-12-2008
I had no issues downloading and installing the update. After, it's like I bought a brand new AppleTV. So far, it was worth the wait. Pretty cool!
Teejay said 11:26PM on 2-12-2008
I want one now! Omg Gorgeous.. Apple please, movies and iPhone in Canada...
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ac said 8:32AM on 2-13-2008
@Teejay
Ask a friend in the states to buy you a US iTunes gift card, or have one picked one up the next time you are or someone your know is down there. Or buy one off ebay. And you don't actually need the physical card, you simply need the authorization number on the back.
Brian said 11:27PM on 2-12-2008
So this afternoon I updated my Apple TV and tonight I noticed in iTunes that it sees my Apple TV as an external speaker source....pretty cool. Now all I need to do is try it out.
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Dave Zatz said 11:39PM on 2-12-2008
Cory, what kind of broadband connection/speeds do you have where you filmed this? Wondering if the slow television show thumbnail images are Apple/Apple TV or your connectivity.
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Cory Bohon said 9:25PM on 2-13-2008
It's a 1.5 MB down DSL connection. Apple TV relies heavily on an internet connection -- when it starts up, it downloads all of the poster art.
Matt said 12:39AM on 2-13-2008
My only question: "Are there video playlists?"
With hundreds of movies on my hard drive, I don't want to have to scroll through all of them every time I want to watch something...
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Quix said 12:46AM on 2-13-2008
OK, so where the heck is the sweet Apple TV remote control app for my iPhone? Forget that mostly-annoying little stick of gum remote - let me use my iPhone as the ultimate remote control. And using the keyboard on the iPhone would be a nice way to enter text on the Apple TV too, no?
Dragging your feet on the obvious fails to impress, Apple.
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Bob said 10:41AM on 2-13-2008
A round-about way to do this would be to use the app Signal (see TUAW's review here: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/25/signal-turn-your-iphone-into-an-itunes-remote/ ) and set your speaker output to Apple TV. This will control what you see on the screen for music. Have not tried with video but I do not think it works.
Alex said 11:15AM on 2-13-2008
Wait, the iPhone has an IR transmitter? this is news to me...
Unless you'd want to use your iPhone as a remote over wifi, which could probably be done with a jailbroken phone now, maybe through a webapp.
Quix said 11:43AM on 2-13-2008
"Unless you'd want to use your iPhone as a remote over wifi, which could probably be done with a jailbroken phone now, maybe through a webapp."
Yes, obviously over wi-fi. And why use some janky jailbreak webapp when Apple should be releasing their own Apple TV remote app for iPhone and iPod Touch? It can't be rocket science, people. This should have been something they announced when they announced Apple TV 2.0.
Apple's innovation usually delights, but their lack of innovation often befuddles.
Logan Snow said 2:16AM on 2-13-2008
Oh man, the intro on that video is awesome. I just wanted to watch that part over and over again. Apple TV looks interesting. Not something I'm really looking into right now.
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Ireland said 3:02AM on 2-13-2008
You never mentioned YouTube login abilities?
That's honestly the only reason I watched the video, and they didn't make an appearance :(
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Cory Bohon said 9:27PM on 2-13-2008
You can login to YouTube and rate videos, save them as favorites, and view others contacts just as you could in the previous software. The YouTube app is pretty much unchanged from the previous software.
iMat said 3:39AM on 2-13-2008
Gorgeous update Apple.
Now, if only I could rent the videos from your store you would make:
- one customer happy
- some money
Until then I will revert to other, less politically correct methods. But at least I cannot be blamed, for I have no alternative.
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artifex said 4:17AM on 2-13-2008
Cory mentioned the rental buttons a couple of times. Check again.