Apple TV: SD TV, drive upgrade, AR issues

Apple's new set-top device has brought a plethora of new reports on Apple TV, with some interesting new features and hacks revealed on the internet. In addition to modifying the device to run XviD files, users have upgraded the installed hard drive, while one review has posted more detailed photos of a Apple TV dissection.

One Rogue Amoeba developer reports that the device works fine with standard definition televisions (480i standard definition TV) that have component input, countering most of Apple's claims that it requires a widescreen or HDTV.

Movies, TV Shows, and Music are synced first with highest priority (respectively), while Podcasts and Photos are lowest priority, according to Apple. The company has also posted info on pairing and unpairing the Apple Remote with Apple TV (as well as troubleshooting a non-working Apple remote). Users can avoid problems using their Apple TV remote by unpairing it with their Mac: (1) hold remote for the Mac close to the Mac IR sensor and (2) hold down Menu and Next (right arrow) on remote for several seconds until the chain link icon appears.

Many users note that you can't listen to music while surfing other categories and that users cannot manually manage the content on their Apple TV (as with the iPod/iTunes link). Users also note that Apple has restricted the control of Apple TV to the device/interface itself, not allowing users to control/manage streaming music directly from iTunes another another computer. Interesting, Apple TV will prompt whether to resume or restarted partially played video content.

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jpellino

ya woulda thunk...

03/24, 2:30pm, EDT

... that with an ethernet port and an airport antenna, they'd make it do what every other AP equipped mac can do, namely act as an access point, but nope.

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re: ya woulda thunk...

03/26, 4:49pm, EDT

Geez, how much do you want the AppleTV to do? People are trying way too hard to make the AppleTV do more than it was designed to. Bigger HD?? Why?? Just stream content off your Mac (like AppleTV was designed to do). If you want it to act as a wireless access point too, just get yourself a Mac mini and be done with it.

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Lax?

04/13, 3:44pm, EDT

And the BBC says it's Macintosh users that are lax on security.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6378541.stm

Using a PeeCee is indeed the lax way to go. Oh yeah, they have more games and word processors available for the PeeCees. That makes me want to run out and buy a PeeCee.

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