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Anybody thinking that Apple TV will be upgraded soon?
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I'm holding out for 1080p. As soon as it's announced I'll have my order in..
I completely agree!! This is the only thing holding me back.
I'm holding out for 1080p. As soon as it's announced I'll have my order in..
Boy how many times does one read... "If XXX had just this one thing I would order it"
Don't like streaming? I actually wish it didn't have a hard drive at all. Cut down on the price maybe?!?
I wish you could use a keyboard to do quick search's. As far as the remote is concerned you could always get a harmony to control everything.
ATV Update
I'm not holding out but when that does happen I will certainly purchase another one. The current model works great and I have no complaints however if a better one is released I will be very happy to upgrade.
I'm holding out for 1080p. As soon as it's announced I'll have my order in..
I'm not holding out but when that does happen I will certainly purchase another one. The current model works great and I have no complaints however if a better one is released I will be very happy to upgrade.
Streaming - fast forwarding isn't smooth. Also, means my Mac must be on; I have a MacBook Pro and use an external hard drive. Not convenient if I want to do work while my flatmate watches something via the Apple TV (I'd have to be sat next to my hard drive).
Nothing against streaming; if they introduced an iTunes Server I'd be fine.
Good point about the Mac having to be on. That's a downside I didn't think of. But would only happen if you're watching a show stored on your Mac. No reason the ATV couldn't stream from the Time Capsule. Also not like the 40gig ATV can hold everything you might want to play anyway. My fairly small music library is 30 gigs alone. PHotos are 15 gigs. Movies are 45gigs. And I'm not a media hoarder at all.
FAst forwarding wouldn't be a problem if you provide some flash memory to cache to.
REally I always thought they should just support the Ipod's audio/video output to the TV capabilities more. It takes just a few minutes to load a movie onto an IPod at most. Just give us better remote control over our iPods plugged into our TVs. And stop raping us on the Dock and composite/component cables and Apple would sell a crap ton more of those setups. 1 set for each TV in a household. (Do this until the ATV becomes cheap enough that folks will want it instead of the cable/dock/iPod solution.)
I did get some Chinese knock-off cables and they work great with my 3rd gen Nano. Play video and everything. I load a movie onto it and connect it up.
Now I just need to get a Dock to at least have some remote control although it sounds like all I can do is pause the show or skip to the next video.
Anyway downside is no rentals this way at least until they are fully downloaded on your pc and transferred to the iPod.
Hell, what am I saying, my ATV is going to be the $1049 refurb 24" iMac I just ordered.
Curious, are you hard wired or wifi? I have zero problems FF or Rewinding. I am hard wired. I don't know if the wifi has an issue with that or not. Hence the question!
there are many things to upgrade on the ATV but right now it seems as if Apple has it's mind somewhere else.
there are so many things to improve on it, yet a lot of attention is giong towards iPhone 3.0 and Snow Leopard, and this 'tablet/netbook'.
i think they will update it soon. and if it has a better way to be controlled. i will definitely be ordering one
there are so many things to improve on it, yet a lot of attention is giong towards iPhone 3.0 and Snow Leopard, and this 'tablet/netbook'.
i think they will update it soon. and if it has a better way to be controlled. i will definitely be ordering one
Curious, are you hard wired or wifi? I have zero problems FF or Rewinding. I am hard wired. I don't know if the wifi has an issue with that or not. Hence the question!
I too only stream to my two Atv's from my always on iMac via a couple of AEBS, and I would say fast forwarding is less than stellar, performance wise. I have had very little issue with my wireless setup and much less since I isolated syncing to photographs only and stream the rest of the content, but FF/Rewind remains an issue, which leads me to believe it is more to do with wireless bandwidth/interference. Interesting you don't have the issues over a ethernet network. Must get around to doing that one day!
Too bad you can only rent HD movies on the device, and they stay on there. This is a problem if you're not just renting and then immediately watching - I have taken to renting the .99 cent movies if they're interested, and actually waiting a couple of weeks to find time to watch them. Or just letting them expire - that's less than a cup of coffee I could have made myself anyway.
As far as i can see it, apple could go several ways as far as appleTVs are concerned.
Since they are pretty buddy-buddy with nvidia these days an Ion based system is possibly the most plausible, and would allow them to have far more flexibility. Apple could even add more functionality, even games. I'm not talking next gen FPS here, but casual games that tend to sell extremely well. to this end, they could simply release an app for the touch/iPhone to allow it to be a complex controller.
Opening the apple TV up could make it.. not a more serious system i suppose, but it could definitely attract more of the geek crowd, that despite the market position they wish it had, is certainly it's primary audience, so long as apple don't get too authoritarian with what they allow.
Alternatively they could build it around an ARM based system, now they have experience working with these CPUs from the iPhone, there are other media boxes using similar chips that can decode high definition content just fine, so they are not underpowered, though it's rather more a question of dedicated decoding hardware than power. but it would run far, far cooler.
Since they are pretty buddy-buddy with nvidia these days an Ion based system is possibly the most plausible, and would allow them to have far more flexibility. Apple could even add more functionality, even games. I'm not talking next gen FPS here, but casual games that tend to sell extremely well. to this end, they could simply release an app for the touch/iPhone to allow it to be a complex controller.
Opening the apple TV up could make it.. not a more serious system i suppose, but it could definitely attract more of the geek crowd, that despite the market position they wish it had, is certainly it's primary audience, so long as apple don't get too authoritarian with what they allow.
Alternatively they could build it around an ARM based system, now they have experience working with these CPUs from the iPhone, there are other media boxes using similar chips that can decode high definition content just fine, so they are not underpowered, though it's rather more a question of dedicated decoding hardware than power. but it would run far, far cooler.
I've decided to sell my ATVflash hacked ATV which is the 40GB cause it is really slow to react. Like when I hit play to select files to go into a folder off my external drive connected to the ATV via USB its slow to move into the folder atleast two minutes so that said if there is a update I will not be buying my 1TB is going to get plugged into my PS3 I only bought two itunes movies anyway the rest of my movies I ripped via HB so goodbye ATV and no to a update purchase.
I know slighty off topic sorry.
I know slighty off topic sorry.
I have no idea when they will update it. Currently not a lot rumors going on. I can tell we see iPods in September but besides that . . .
I would like to see
(must haves)
- 1080p60
-much better and improved slideshows. I would use it mainly to watch my Photos from my Aperture library on the big screen
- Bluray drive with upscaling of standard DVDs to HD as BTO in order to keep entry price low
(nice to have)
- works with bluetooth kb and mouse
- Safari
- Mail
- AppStore
I would like to see
(must haves)
- 1080p60
-much better and improved slideshows. I would use it mainly to watch my Photos from my Aperture library on the big screen
- Bluray drive with upscaling of standard DVDs to HD as BTO in order to keep entry price low
(nice to have)
- works with bluetooth kb and mouse
- Safari
- AppStore
Interesting............... I wonder if that is the case? Have you noticed is there lag with music files which are much smaller then the movie files?
I actually haven't used the aTV to play music as I prefer my Squeezebox Duet setup for that so I'm afraid I haven't noticed.
I still think the coolest thing apple could do is to release a media-centric router/storage solution... aka, an all-in-one appleTV/Time capsule, designed to act as the central hub for all media activity in your house.
Put it out in 1 or 2 TB options, give it 3-4 gigabit ports on the switch, USB for printers/external storage, hdmi/component out for the TV, dual-antenna wireless... pretty much mash the two different products together.
The next step is setting up iTunes to recognize when there is a media hub present, and using IT for all purchasing and storing of content, streaming across the network to all connected computers. And if you want to travel with your library on a laptop, you should be able to sync with your media server... not have your media server sync with one of your machines (which is how the apple TV currently does it). THIS is the biggest change that would make it all kinds of awesome to own one of these.
If they could sell a box like this for 400-500 bucks, open up the device to 3rd party apps, and include the codecs everyone in the world uses (like divx/xvid), then they would have one of the best-selling set top boxes on the market, hands down.
Put it out in 1 or 2 TB options, give it 3-4 gigabit ports on the switch, USB for printers/external storage, hdmi/component out for the TV, dual-antenna wireless... pretty much mash the two different products together.
The next step is setting up iTunes to recognize when there is a media hub present, and using IT for all purchasing and storing of content, streaming across the network to all connected computers. And if you want to travel with your library on a laptop, you should be able to sync with your media server... not have your media server sync with one of your machines (which is how the apple TV currently does it). THIS is the biggest change that would make it all kinds of awesome to own one of these.
If they could sell a box like this for 400-500 bucks, open up the device to 3rd party apps, and include the codecs everyone in the world uses (like divx/xvid), then they would have one of the best-selling set top boxes on the market, hands down.
Not going to happen!! I agree it would be great but if apple does this it would cost $1000-2000 and not be worth it. And open up to 3rd party apps??? Have you ever owned a mac?
You can add me the the list of those waiting for 1080p. But Apple must know that many people are waiting for this, but still no 1080p. Would it really add that much to the price? Hard to say why it's not available.
Maybe he means the sc3n3 groups... because I don't know of anyone else who has constantly been releasing content in divx/xvid and refusing to upgrade to newer, more efficient codecs.
I really would like an upgraded Apple TV. I have a love hate relationship with my 40GB ATV - I love what it does but I hate how temperamental it is. Waiting for it to restart almost daily because it's not responding, or because of some graphics glitch, has got really tiresome.
I agree with the above comments about Fast Forwarding - it's really poor. I use mine over ethernet, and yes it probably was even worse over 802.11n.
I really don't care what features they add - I love what it does already, I just want it to be reliable.
For me streaming is the only option - and whether the ATV includes a 40GB, 160GB or even 500GB hard drive is fairly academic. The above suggestion of a snappier 32GB SSD sounds more appealing to be honest.
I agree with the above comments about Fast Forwarding - it's really poor. I use mine over ethernet, and yes it probably was even worse over 802.11n.
I really don't care what features they add - I love what it does already, I just want it to be reliable.
For me streaming is the only option - and whether the ATV includes a 40GB, 160GB or even 500GB hard drive is fairly academic. The above suggestion of a snappier 32GB SSD sounds more appealing to be honest.
I stream all my content around 600 gigs of media. I have no stuttering with with apple tv and one is wired and the other is on a wireless g network. I wish they would take the hard drive out and add the ability for plug ins.
router
Get a better router it will make a world of difference. I was having the same issues as you. Just about ready to give up. Finally dumped the Linksys and got the new Airport Extreme. Apple TV has been perfect every since. No drops outs, no freezing......no problems at all
Get a better router it will make a world of difference. I was having the same issues as you. Just about ready to give up. Finally dumped the Linksys and got the new Airport Extreme. Apple TV has been perfect every since. No drops outs, no freezing......no problems at all