Heads Up: Update your Apple TV to 3.0.1 ASAP, says Apple

Am I the only ATV user that streams everything? Can someone explain why you would bother to sync the physical files to the ATV box? Is it simply a bandwidth issue or is there some advantage I'm totally missing?

And why have them only there and not backed up in iTunes and/or an external HD?

After 3 years and 3 AppleTV's all going faulty not long after the 1 year warrantee, my Love affair with AppleTV has ended.

Apple rather expensive hobby is being superseded by many other media center systems and the hardware is really showing it's age now.

So for me the update has come to late and is to little to make a difference, and I won't be rushing out to buy another appletv for it to go wrong in a year.

Why don't apple just sell a slightly cheaper Mac Mini with a special AppleTV IMAGE DVD you can buy and turn your system into a media center.

Be a hell of a lot easier.

My content was just erased sometime this past week since I watched a movie last weekend. I found it was all gone this morning. I updated to 3.01 and it was still gone.

My original Mac mini had a bad logic board, which Apple replaced, but I've never been able to sync to it after the repair without losing content.

Too late, I finally pulled the HD from my ATV this afternoon and found a folder on the Media partition labeled, "Purchased". I recovered some but not all of my purchased content since 12/08. The rest is permanently gone unless I can recover it with disc recovery software.

If your warranty has expired, you might try this to recover what you can.

after updating to 3.0.1 I cant see any of my artwork as a screensaver. Anyone else having this issue?

I've also had problems with my Apple TV refusing to acknowledge, authorize or play content. When it was in the shop last week, the 'genii' denied that there was possibly any problem with the Apple TV.

don't even bother with ATV Flash with this update... wow, this has been a painful experience since jumping on the bandwagon a couple of days ago

Ever since the 3 upgrade, I now have to reboot my AppleTV every time I switch my av receiver to it. The ATV is connected via HDMI and when I now switch to that connection the source is not found. After a reboot the it is found. This was never a problem before the 3 update.

"...but considering that the Apple TV 3.0 update was billed as a major improvement to Apple's 'hobby,' this bug is not going to make any fans out of Apple TV foes."


Is TUAW becoming the Fox News of the Mac blogging world? Will TUAW just leave the AppleTV alone and stop writing agitation pieces about it? Unlikely. But what's the value of this piece? There was a bug in the AppleTV software release (gasp! a bug in software!!!!! horrors!!!!) and Apple took the rather unprecedented step of informing their user base about it and rolled out a fix. All of us with AppleTV's know about the issue and the fix, so what's the point here? Again, do TUAW bloggers have a word count quote that they need to fill? Though it is amusing to read the dumbass remarks from Shocked And Outraged Users (tm).

let's see: they find a bug and fix it, and people complain. They don't fix a bug, and people complain. A pattern is beginning to emerge.

Amateur hour in Cupertino...