Apple TV laggy or faulty remote?

[bilbo--baggins]

My Apple TV works fine sometimes, but often I press buttons on the remote and nothing happens, or I press the button repeatedly and nothing happens and then a while later it catches up with all of the button presses. Sometimes it only responds if I press the button on the remote really hard. It's strange, I'm never quite sure if it's the buttons on the remote not working properly, or the Apple TV being laggy. I suspect it's both, and this makes it hard to know whether just to be patient or to press the button again extra hard.

Anyone else having these sorts of problems? I don't want to replace the remote if that's how they are anyway.

 

[Galley]

Mine's laggy as hell whenever it's syncing.

 

[dbwie]

laggy

My AppleTV is laggy when connected with HDMI (handshaking issues?), but appears to be much less laggy when I use component video.

 

[Chaszmyr]

My AppleTV is laggy when connected with HDMI (handshaking issues?), but appears to be much less laggy when I use component video.

I haven't tried component, but my AppleTV is not particularly responsive to the remote (half second delay or so, not like the OP described) and is connected via HDMI. I keep hoping Apple will fix this... My other devices, like TiVo, don't have this problem and the AppleTV ought to be at least as capable of hardware.

 

[trule]

For me most menus have a 1/2 second delay, however browsing Movies is really bad as the ATV seems to want to show preview pics for each movie...and that has priority over my remote clicks

Anyway, now I use the remote app in my Touch to control the ATV and I don't really need the (limited functionality) remote anymore.

 

[kolax]

Depends if you are streaming your content. If everything is on my Apple TV, then it isn't too laggy (well not usually), but if I am streaming content (like all my Music, which isn't stored on my Apple TV) then scrolling through it all can be laggy sometimes.

The menu's aren't very responsive as I'd like - I hope Apple optimises it, so the performance is better.

 

[FF_productions]

I'm noticing the same problems to.

Apple TV isn't so smooth, isn't the hardware good enough to handle it?

Come on Apple!