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Raffles posted:Ok so I've got my ATV 2 ticking away on eBay, hopefully I'll make a tidy profit. The question is though, should I hold off in the ATV 3. It came last March and Apple seem to be moving everything to yearly update schedules. Have there been any rumblings of an Apple TV refresh this spring or is common wisdom pointing towards the next ATV being an actual TV set? I just sold mine for $210. Seriously if you are reading this thread and you aren't going to jailbreak your ATV2, you should sell it.
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Viper_3000 posted:I just sold mine for $210. Seriously if you are reading this thread and you aren't going to jailbreak your ATV2, you should sell it. Ebay or amazon?
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Don Lapre posted:Ebay or amazon? Ebay
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Is there a way for Windows users to set up a proxy for ATV3? The only method I've found on the Apple website is to create a profile using the Configurator, but that's only for OS X users.
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Jan 18, 2013 22:56
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So I have an ATV2. I jailbroke it about a year ago, messed around with putting a Weather widget on it, put XBMC on it, which ran like stuttery dog-poo. As I sit here (with a now unjailbroken ATV2) I wonder if I should sell it on Ebay and get an ATV3 for the 1080p. I guess my question is, did the reasons/features/cool aspects of jailbreaking an ATV2 improve over the last year?
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Feenix posted:So I have an ATV2. I jailbroke it about a year ago, messed around with putting a Weather widget on it, put XBMC on it, which ran like stuttery dog-poo. I'm not sure when you installed it, but last year XBMC released Eden (11.0) which I found to be a huge improvement in terms of smoothness and also more reliable decoding. They should be coming out with a stable release of Frodo (12.0) soon which I can only imagine will be a little better. Whether you should sell it or keep it really depends on what you use it for. If you can get by without needing to access media on an NAS or something then it may be worth it to you to sell it. After all, you can turn a ~$100 profit by upgrading to an ATV3. However, if you need more functionality than the stock system provides, I would give XBMC another shot or maybe try Plex.
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Jan 25, 2013 19:19
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Thanks, good info.  I guess my last question would just be... all this talk of activating Bluetooth and possible apps, is this most likely JUST on the ATV3 or would that be on the ATV2 as well, perhaps? (if we even know...)
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Jan 25, 2013 19:31
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Feenix posted:Thanks, good info. There's no way to know, but if they did it I doubt the ATV2 would be fully supported. I'm just dude From The Internet, so my opinion doesn't really matter, but it makes sense given how old the unit is now. I'm planning on selling mine on ebay while the price is good, as I don't really need it right now.
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Jan 25, 2013 19:51
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Yeah I realize it was a dumb question for me to ask here, I guess the better question would have been if the WiFi chipset on the ATV2 also had some kind of dormant Bluetooth. But I agree with you, I think I don't really need anything particularly JB-worthy out of my ATV2 and will probably ebay it.
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Jan 25, 2013 19:55
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Admittedly, I haven't used eBay much in my life, when I posted my AppleTV yesterday, it suggested I would attract more buyers by making my starting bid 99 dollars. (So I did.) It's been 1 day and I have 1 bid for 99 dollars. My assumption is that a lot of bidding activity happens near the end of the auction. Let's hope so...
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Jan 26, 2013 21:09
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Feenix posted:Admittedly, I haven't used eBay much in my life, when I posted my AppleTV yesterday, it suggested I would attract more buyers by making my starting bid 99 dollars. (So I did.) It does but are you sure they didn't suggest 99 cents?
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Jan 26, 2013 21:56
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Pretty sure... ? But who knows now... (Edit) actually very sure since it auto filled it for me...
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Feenix posted:Admittedly, I haven't used eBay much in my life, when I posted my AppleTV yesterday, it suggested I would attract more buyers by making my starting bid 99 dollars. (So I did.) It'll pick up once all the other items that started at 99 cents catch up.
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I think you're just losing out to all the Buy It Now sales. People want to buy something, not wait a week to maybe buy something at an unknown price.
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The other question is, how much feedback do you have, particularly as a seller? I know a lot of people don't want to take a risk on someone with no history of selling or using eBay. Maybe you'll get something at a discount, but you might lose your money entirely too. On big ticket items, it's a difficult risk to take.
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I have a 2nd gen ATV and on the "About" page it lists the Apple TV Software as version 4.4.4 (3330). When I select Update Software, it tells me that the ATV is up to date. Wiki tells me that 4.4.4 was the last version that came out before the 3rd gen ATVs came out and Apple released 5.0. Do I need to do anything special to get the firmware to bump past 4.4.4?
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Jan 27, 2013 23:39
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einTier posted:The other question is, how much feedback do you have, particularly as a seller? I've sold about 15 items in my life and 100% positive rating with a score of (7) whatever that means.
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Jan 28, 2013 00:05
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Bucket Joneses posted:I have a 2nd gen ATV and on the "About" page it lists the Apple TV Software as version 4.4.4 (3330). When I select Update Software, it tells me that the ATV is up to date. Get a USB cable and manually update the software.
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Jan 28, 2013 03:23
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Ok so let me know if I'm understanding this correctly before I buy an AppleTV: If I want to stream video from my PC downstairs to my TV upstairs, the files have to be in .mp4 format, and they have to be imported into itunes? Otherwise I have to use airvideo to double stream to airplay? How does that affect video quality/buffering time?
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Jan 28, 2013 16:37
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Elysium posted:Ok so let me know if I'm understanding this correctly before I buy an AppleTV: You mean like using AirVideo Server and your phone to throw it up on the ATV? I've done that quite a bit and it works beautifully. It probably all comes down to your house's bandwidth and your computer's processing power, I'm sure...
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Feenix posted:I've sold about 15 items in my life and 100% positive rating with a score of (7) whatever that means. It will increase in value as the deadline for the auction comes up. Most things don't really start to escalate until about 24 hours before they end. Your feedback will hurt you slightly, though. Generally, you want 10+ feedback as a seller before selling anything. A good way to do this is to buy a bunch of cheap stuff on eBay, then turn around and resell it. Make sure to leave feedback and hound your customers to make sure they leave it for you.
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I had a bunch of people over to watch the WWE Royal Rumble PPV last night. There was a live pre-show on the WWE iPhone app, so I used AirPlay to throw it onto the TV. It was a seamless experience and people were pretty amazed when I explained that this crystal-clear live video was coming from my phone.
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einTier posted:It will increase in value as the deadline for the auction comes up. Most things don't really start to escalate until about 24 hours before they end. Solid advice. Thanks. For what it's worth I am up to 172.50 with 4 hours to go. (Even if it sold right now I'd be able to get a brand new ATV3 + a nice dinner.)
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Jan 28, 2013 17:33
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5.2 software update is available.
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Feenix posted:Solid advice. Thanks. For what it's worth I am up to 172.50 with 4 hours to go. Sounds like you might have sold it just in time.
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Jan 28, 2013 19:43
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einTier posted:Sounds like you might have sold it just in time. Is this different from all those other fake announcements?
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I don't believe ATV3 is JB-able, I don't believe that site. The people I trust are saying 6.1 will come for ATV as well, (enabling BT Keyboard access) but that ATV3 will not be Jailbreakable.
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I've got an appleTV 1st gen (40GB) kicking around, are those worth anything to attempt to sell? I was just planning to donate it to a garage sale for the local animal shelter with some other stuff. Hope they can get some bucks for it.
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priznat posted:I've got an appleTV 1st gen (40GB) kicking around, are those worth anything to attempt to sell? I was just planning to donate it to a garage sale for the local animal shelter with some other stuff. Hope they can get some bucks for it. $100+ http://www.ebay.com/csc/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=40gb+appletv&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc
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Elysium posted:Is this different from all those other fake announcements? Nope. Not different at all.
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Jan 28, 2013 21:05
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Just a final update to close out this saga: I got $177.50 (before shipping) for my ATV2 on Ebay.
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Jan 28, 2013 21:33
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See: new thread title
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I won't believe any jailbreaks until Star War Sex Parrot dunks a new one on this thread.
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So is it normal for the Apply TV to take FOREVER to do these updates? Because its still "preparing update" after almost half an hour.
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Jan 28, 2013 22:16
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Just power cycle it and try again.
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That did the trick. Paired my barely-used iPad keyboard with it, works perfectly. The shortcuts buttons (home/play/skip) work too, so yeah this is awesome.
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Jan 28, 2013 22:44
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My off-brand iPad BT keyboard worked fine on my ATV3, too.
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Jan 28, 2013 22:46
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I thought the BT keyboard thing sounded pretty stupid and pointless. Then I realized I have an Apple BT keyboard I bought for my first iPad thinking I would use it all the time that has been sitting in my garage for a year. Hooray comically oversized remote for my Apple TV!
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With the new bluetooth keyboard support I was thinking about getting something like this: http://www.amazon.com/DBTech-Mini-W...etooth+keyboard or http://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Wir...etooth+keyboard Someone should make a bluetooth remote control for the Apple TV with a flip open keyboard that would be cool. (kickstarter project anyone?)Edit: I just found this one http://www.pandawill.com/rii-mini-i6-2nd-bluetooth-wireless-keyboard-universal-remote-control-2-in-1-white-p47588.html  Not sure I'm willing to throw $50 to a site I've never heard of for one though. Edit2: After doing more research, the buttons on the back turn out to be IR not bluetooth. 
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Mine is stuck at the What's New screen and I can't get it to do anything else.
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