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Feb 25, 09 - 12:40 am Comment from: TowerTone

It is .1 snTV-er...

@TowerTone,

I read that as "snotTV-er". Then I realized what you meant.

it fixes the glacial downloading speed.

I have a 16MB line that gets like 2 baud when getting HD content.

and it's not the ISP.

For some reason it has changed the "ready to play" settings... I rented a movie after the update and instead of saying it was ready to play after downloading 3% of the film, it says I still have 2 hours to wait until it's ready to play (and I'm at 10%)... The speed of the connection is unchanged - it's gotta be the update. Anyone else seeing that?

Feb 25, 09 - 01:54 am Comment from: Logan

Apple needs to take a hint from Boxee's relative success and either buy it, or develop something similar.

It has a menu item I don't remember seeing before:

Settings / General / Network / Test Network

Feb 25, 09 - 02:43 am Comment from: almux

At the opposite of M$: Apple has plans!...

Last update before Safari 4 comes to AppleTV...

Feb 25, 09 - 05:22 am Comment from: British Mac Head

Not doing it until someone tells me they managed to get the patchstick to work after it. I'm not that bothered about Boxee or XBMC. It's losing the ftp access and codecs that pisses me off.

If you ask me, Apple need to include afp, ftp and all the commonly used codecs. At the moment the AppleTV is just a medium for them to rent or sell content and that's fine but it seems a little mean to not allow you to upload video that's sent to you by friends and family off their video cameras without having to go through the rigmarole of converting it to h264 first. You can't improve on quality by converting a DIVX encoded avi file to H264. After all, H264 is only better when encoding from an equally high quality medium like DV or High Def DV.

Boxee is crap. Stop hacking the thing and wait for apple to do something special.

been waiting for a VERY long time.....

sometimes you have to take matters in your own hands

shame about Hulu tho :(

@Ed

I ha e to disagree that Boxee users should stop and wait for Apple. Though I don't use Boxee myself, nor have I ever seen it, it is the innovation and "pre-market trials" that these bleeding edge consumers promote that helps Apple determine just what the market wants.

Same goes for the iPhone - pre AppStore, the big reason to jailbreak (apart from carriers) was for more Apps! Apple got around to a more elegant solution and voila - I bet the jail break phones are way down!

@ Ed

Waiting for Apple to do something special might take a long time and, if they did, it might not be immediately compatible. The hacks turn AppleTV from neat to useful.

I'm thinking of getting one but I'm waiting for the version that can play games with my iTouch as the controller. (Is anybody from Apple reading this?)

Feb 25, 09 - 08:24 am Comment from: TowerTone

coolfactor

Ooops. Hope that doesn't mean you have a PC....
To others, it should read 'snAppleTV-er'

also, last two HD movies I rented kept getting interrupted by the need for more download. I hope this is a fix.

Other than that, "The Duchess" looked very good in HD, and deserved the Oscar it got...and maybe should have won for 'set'.

Feb 25, 09 - 10:03 am Comment from: Wealthy Industrialite

I sold my Apple TV two weeks ago for 86% of what I paid for it. I have been so disappointed by it. Since getting my PS3 at Christmas, it was collecting dust. With the exception of renting videos, the PS3 does everything better than the Apple TV. And no need to convert any videos either, the PS3 just plays everything i throw at it.

Feb 25, 09 - 10:38 am Comment from: NeverFade

@ Wealthy Industrialite,

How can you get any type of movie file onto your PS3? I have one, and also an internet connection.

I didn't know that this was possible...

Feb 25, 09 - 11:17 am Comment from: grok

Before the Hulu thing, I was about an inch away from ditching FIOS TV. TV needs to read more formats and recognize video and music from an airport hard drive without shaking hands with iTunes.

TV is so close to being incredibly useful and saving me lots of money. It's time for this to move beyond the hobby stage.

Hulu pulled out of Boxee.
Boxee now has lost it's usefulness.

@Ed: Screw you Ed, I will do what I please with my own Apple TV, especially in a legal manner. Boxee is not crap, it's basically an alpha but it works.

As far as Apple bringing more to ATV, you could measure the time on a geological scale.

me - I ha e to disagree that Boxee users should stop and wait for Apple. Though I don't use Boxee myself, nor have I ever seen it,...

If you have never used or seen it, why comment on it?

The Couch Surfer browser for the ATV lets you browse the Web. Nothing keeping you from browsing over to Hulu, CBS or ABC.

@ Sarasota
"Nothing keeping you from browsing over to Hulu, CBS or ABC."

True, but the lack of a Flash 9 player for Couch Surfer does prevent you from watching anything on these sites once you get there.