Tuesday, April 15,2008 @ 12:15am
Apple TV Software 2.0.2 offers Flickr update, fixes?
Apple on Monday released Apple TV Software 2.0.2, an update to its set-top box software that brings (undocumented) bug fixes along with a single discoverable feature: it adds a viewable gallery of your contact's favorites photos within Flickr -- in addition to the previously available ability to view a contact's publicly available photo-streams. Some users also report faster menu and/or networking performance: one user on Apple's discussion boards reports getting better network connectivity with some 802.11n networks.
"I noticed nothing new except one huge fix - having wide channels enabled on 5GHz Apple Extreme 802.11N networks no longer crashes/stutters the box," one reader wrote in Apple's support forums. "I have gotten smooth data transfers for a few hours now with wide channels enabled on my 5GHz N network with the 2.02 update. Prior to that, with 2.0.1, the ATV would crash hard when data transfer started."