Apple has released Apple TV Software Update 3.0.2. Little is known about the update except that third-party hacks may go missing post-update, as usual.
According to AppleInsider’s Prince McLean, “The update appears to be related to the release of Aperture 3.0, which made changes to how that software shares images over the local network, in addition to adding support for iPhoto’s Places and Faces features. Users have also reported that since applying the update their Apple TV has stopped experiencing problems related to switching its HDMI output cable. The update also appears to make minor tweaks in the user interface to enhance the readability of text.”
The Apple TV 3.0.2 update is available directly to the Apple TV and won’t appear in your computer’s Software Update application, or in the Apple Downloads web site.
Your Apple TV will update based on your automatic update settings or you can perform manual software update by navigating to Settings>General>Update Software.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “TowerTone” for the heads up.]
If snow hadn’t stopped my Aperture 3 from being delivered then I would know if the fixed are related to this — as is being reported elsewhere.
Really looking forward to Aperture 3, even more so now it works with Apple TV.
Let’s hope that Apple continues to develop the atv.
And lower the price.
Apple TV is here to stay. Expect it to flourish and evolve big time.
The problem I have had with my TV is that it hasn’t been there to stay, as in it keeps disappearing from the iTunes/Devices list.
Hopefully this will help.
@Towertone-
that sounds like a networking ploblem not necessarily an ATV issue.
@Towertone
Check the link and see it it helps.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1453
That’s nothing!
After Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday this week, my Windows XP blue screens!
Beat that Apple!
Thanks guys, but I had already checked on those.
The Apple TV always becomes sluggish before this happens and even moreso after. I’m thinking it started after the last update.
BTW I have the mid 2009 Airport Extreme.
How about a new apple tv with faster processor and dashboard like homepage? I like my old model but could use an updated version for the new decade…
Only need slightly larger HD, faster wireless chip, higher HD output, snappier interface, cooler chip, and better remote and/or remote app…
Time to transform the hobby into a serious livingroom staple (it’s nearly there already…)
@TT
I see the same thing. Too often I need to reconnect the TV to the network. It is irritating to open iTunes on my iMac and see the TV missing from the Devices list. When connected, the TV indicates that it is getting a strong Wifi signal. TV needs the ability to save the network login info so it can automatically reconnect itself when some anomaly interrupts the wifi link.
I love my Apple TV but the network and HDMI issues have been around a long time.
I work out of town and bought an ATV to carry a bunch of TV on it’s 160 GB drive, synced to my home desktop. Upon setting it up in the hospital call room, the thing would require reauthorization of iTunes stuff or not play.
I’m not to bothered about it’s capacity, my library is too big to try and sync, I just want it to be faster in its responsiveness if they launch a new version.
TT, I too have the issue of it dropping from iTunes. As a network engineer, I know my connectivity is good. I am using all apple networking equipment. Airport express by the atv, which is using wireless access, airport extreme at the mac mini holding the itunes library on an external 2GB RAID 1 drive set.
I have to restart iTunes to get it to see the atv if it has not been used over a couple day period.
Now if only Apple would issue a hardware update. Been holding out for the next model for years
Apple TV is just a hobby Connor MacBook. I would not keep waiting if I were you.
I used to have problems dropping the network year ago, but since I have lived in my current house, have had no issues. Not sure if it was a software update or the network.
I would assume based on reports of the iPad’s speed that any new AppleTV would use it’s chip, maybe a better graphics portion, but the same chip?
Nope, didn’t fix the problem. My apple TV still needs to be rebooted if I turn my projector off (Connected via HDMI). LAME!
Also I never used to have connectivity issues but lately the ATV is just dropping all the time. I also get an error where after a reboot I go to My TV Shows and click play, the ATV hangs for a few seconds then I get the Black screen with an apple logo. I have to do this 3 or 4 times before I finally get access to the My TV Shows menu.
They call this a hobby so they can keep breaking it I guess. Kind of a bummer for those of us dumb enough to invest time and money into apples “Hobby”.
Hey anybody have used this software then let me know in detail about it.
That’s the question I’ve been asking about buying this thing since it first came out. My first impression wasn’t moderated in the least after I spent some time with a friends’. It does almost nothing that really matters to me and the vast majority of the audio/video viewing/game playing public.
When it can play/up-convert my DVDs – which will never be completely, if ever, displaced by HD downloads or BluRay – call me. And when it records over the air & cable signals, I’ll have another huge reason to buy. Until then AppleTV is just an underperforming AV gadget … one MORE that I need to integrate with all my other adequately performing AV devices (stereo, Wii, DVD player, cable box/DVR, etc…).
Seriously, why doesn’t Apple just blow TiVo & Comcast out of the water with this thing and be done with it? Why don’t they give me a reason to consolidate all the stuff I currently have? After the iPhone, and with this new iPad looking like a pretty good imitation of that in terms of success potential, what is the hold up with AppleTV?
At this point, frankly, the ATV’s eternal ‘hobby’ status is nothing more or less than annoying now. It’s becoming irrelevant.