Gizmodo reports on “What You Don’t Already Know About Apple TV.” In case you already know some or all of the following, we’ve reflected that fact in our headline.
Gizmodo’s list:
1. Apple TV connects directly to the Net.
2. AppleTV will pick up where your iPod left off.
3. Your iTunes season passes are automatically synced.
4. Photo libraries are copied to the hard drive and do not stream.
5. Apple TV’s synchronization order.
6. You can’t delete the shows on your AppleTV hard drive via iTunes.
More details in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Adam W.” for the heads up.]
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Gizmodo calls the Apple TV “an iPod for your TV” and they are right. That is what Apple TV appears to be designed to be. Create/buy/download content on your PC or Mac and download/stream it to your Apple TV device to display on your widescreen TV. Nice design Apple!
i cant wait to get one!
People complain that the current iPod does not have a big enough screen. Well, how about an iPod with a 40-inch plasma display. Big enough for you?
Another thing you might not know.
You’ll be able to use your Mac on your TV too.
Why?
Sony is invading the personal computer space by having the internet on their PS3’s.
Apple will one up them to protect their turf.
I already knew that.
7. It’s not edible.
8. There’s no V chip.
9. It won’t stop you from buying Scorpius Gigantus or Suspect Zero.
10. It is not machine washable.
Is Linux available for it yet? Come folks let’s get that MythTV frontend rolling! LOL
wiseguy says: “Another thing you might not know.
You’ll be able to use your Mac on your TV too.”
I sure hope you’re right. If Apple TV lets me access OS X on my plasma, I will buy it in a heartbeat. Especially if I can access EyeTV shows I saved to my Mac without having to endure the excruciating encoding time to H.264.
Linux is inevitable on TV and then a Beowulf cluster. BTW, the inventor of Fortran just died. We need a tribute.
“4. Photo libraries are copied to the hard drive and do not stream.”
What the H E double toothpics does he think “stream” means?
That word is turning into another one of the biggest misunderstood and misused words of the computer era, right up there with “bandwidth”, “CPU” and “memory chip”.
Very discouraged,
What are you talking about? Do YOU know what streaming is? When you stream pictures over a network, nothing gets saved to physical media. It only gets stored in memory. The Apple TV will not stream photos. It has to save them to the Apple TV’s hard drive before you can view them.
When you watch Steve Jobs give a keynote speech, it is being streamed to your computer. Yes, there are ways to save it, but you technically it is being stored in your computers memory and you are able to watch it before all of it is transferred to your computer.
You don’t “stream” still photos, a.k.a. pictures. You stream video and audio, not pictures of your family reunion etc.
I still don’t know how you remove content from the Apple TV.
Anyone?
Anyone?
Buehler?
That’s crazy Twisted Mac Freak! I was just talking about that with a friend of mine – his death, not the tribute part. Let us all pause, stop, continue, goto, divide check, and do. End file.
If you stream a picture of the desert, will it look muddy?..
You know…it would be the coolest thing to mount the iTV in your car, if you could transfer stuff directly too it wirelessly and have it stored there on its hdd and sync it while inside your house….
Hey Loru, I think you’re on to something good there!
Stream is a good word to describe using material from another source without downloading it first…
I read that Apple intend to follow up with the ability to stream iPhoto pics in a later update.
I assume it is feasible to sync a bunch of your favourite FairPlay and MediaFork movies, photos and songs, then go to a friend’s house (out of WiFi range) with your aTV, plug it into their HD TV and watch all your media.
Family photos first, background music during dinner then a movie before driving home. All compliments of your aTV…
Magic word ‘many’ as in many uses.
That was nice, Cubert.
Hey everybody. Backus up.