“I got some hands-on time with the new Apple TV and it is a promising start,” Brian X. Chen reports for Wired. “TV and movie rentals are really snappy and fast. After choosing to rent a movie or show, the Apple TV takes a few seconds to prepare a buffer and begins streaming right away.”
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“The Apple TV’s remote is familiar: It’s got the same aluminum and black design as the current MacBook Pros,” Chen reports. “It’s also very similar to the current Apple remote that controls Macs–only it’s a little longer and the buttons have small bumps for subtle tactile feedback. It feels great in the hand and navigating through the Apple TV menu was really smooth.”
Chen reports, “There’s a feature [coming in November with iOS 4.2] called ‘AirPlay’, so if you’re using your iPad or iPhone to listen to music, look at photos or watch a video, you can tap an AirPlay button, select your Apple TV and boom — your content is streaming onto your Apple TV… All in all, it’s a cool device, and for $100 it’s going to pose a serious threat to the Roku Netflix player.
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers "Fred Mertz" and "iWill" for the heads up.]
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