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smackfu posted:At this point, if you have a subscription video service, it seems like a pretty good bet that you could get it on Apple TV as an app, despite there not being any apps. Except for Amazon Instant. 
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haveblue posted:Is wireless really the bottleneck there? Unless you're on Google Fiber it almost certainly has vastly more bandwidth than what's coming into your house and even in that case the stream from Go is probably only a couple of Mbps. I've been airplaying Go a lot recently and have no complaints about the quality (on an ATV2, no less, although it is wired). Eh, I'm not sure what it is. It will be flawless on the iPad itself, but when using Airplay to the TV there are compression artifacts occasionally. It doesn't really seem logical, but it the case. Netflix is night and day when in Airplay or native on the Apple TV. The weird thing is Airplay with Air Video poo poo looks perfect. So I really don't know.
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kuskus posted:Part of me expected interface updates to kill the reflections on the icons/channels, but since iOS 7 and all its methodology isn't coming to the public until fall I'm sure this is just content-provider update. iOS for aTV seems so simplified already (and thank goodness, what with an A4 heart in mine) that it would seem trivial to make some minor interface adjustments & shoot out a new point release. I'm actually holding out some (far fetched) hope that they'll announce a major update to the aTV interface/apps in the fall since the new hardware revision of the aTV will keep it on the same level as the new iPad/iPhone. Thwomp fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Jun 19, 2013 |
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Feenix posted:Do we yet know if that Apple Trailers Plex tweak still works after updating to get HBOGO? I'll test this when I get home. If I can have Crunchyroll + Plexconnect, then I'm selling my jailbroken ATV2 and getting another 3.
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Kenderama posted:I'll test this when I get home. If I can have Crunchyroll + Plexconnect, then I'm selling my jailbroken ATV2 and getting another 3. I checked. it works just fine after upgrading. Woo!
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Well drat, Charter doesn't allow HBOGo via AppleTV. Guess I just have to stick with AirPlay for the time being. That's annoying. At least ESPN works.
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Voodoo posted:Well drat, Charter doesn't allow HBOGo via AppleTV. Guess I just have to stick with AirPlay for the time being. That's annoying. At least ESPN works. Did you have to redo anything? Oops sorry that was meant for the guy who upgraded and still used Plex... Feenix fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Jun 20, 2013 |
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Feenix posted:Did you have to redo anything? Nope. It was seamless - I did the software update from the Apple Settings menu and when it came back up I had the new icons and PlexConnect still worked.
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Can anyone comment on how the interface on the espn app differs from that on the xbox 360? Does it have favorite teams like the 360 version?
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Can anyone comment on how the interface on the espn app differs from that on the xbox 360? Does it have favorite teams like the 360 version? I can't help on this one as I don't have cable / espn to test with. 
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Any of you fine folks with ATV3 & PlexConnect: I was bummed slightly to realize that this Plex hack kinda removes Trailers. (I like Trailers!) But then found that PlexConnect has a "channel" you can add for Apple Trailers. I can see all the trailers, read their descriptions, but when I go to play them I just get the spinny loading dial thingy. Anyone else? Thoughts? Does this channel just not work?
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Feenix posted:Any of you fine folks with ATV3 & PlexConnect: I thought I had played some of the trailers through that channel. I can double check tonight when I get home, but it used to work.
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gently caress you HBO, let me just pay you money for HBO Go because I dont have cable and dont plan to get it
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:gently caress you HBO, let me just pay you money for HBO Go because I dont have cable and dont plan to get it That's why I just pay my mom to add HBO to her cable pack. Free HBO for her $10/m HBO Go for me. It's a win win.
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Crunchyroll is cool and works very well, unfortunately the selection outside the US is a bit poo poo. It's nice that they give you SOMETHING rather than the Hulu/Netflix nothing though. I tried the free trial but I don't think I'd pay $10 a month for the stuff they have right now.
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Or you could just not watch anime 
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Joe Don Baker posted:Or you could just not watch anime Literally 1 streaming service works for where I am and it's crunchyroll, ATV is a bit of a brick otherwise. I use it to watch youtube sometimes I guess.
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The Locator posted:It annoys me endlessly that I can't order MLB/NBA broadband because my entire area is 'blacked out' due to the agreements with cable operators. On the other hand, I've got a lot of free time now that I used to use watching games. This isn't prohibitive, by the by - you can use a service like unblock.us to spoof a location. It even gets around national blackouts.
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Boxman posted:This isn't prohibitive, by the by - you can use a service like unblock.us to spoof a location. It even gets around national blackouts. Unblock.us is amazing and totally worth the $5/m. Watching my local MLB team and the national games all on the appletv is the best.
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Boxman posted:This isn't prohibitive, by the by - you can use a service like unblock.us to spoof a location. It even gets around national blackouts. I will look at this come next season. Thank you!
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smackfu posted:They just added HBO Go and ESPN apps to Apple TV, although like the mobile platforms, you need to have a cable subscription to use it. God, do I want to see Oz again.
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jackpot posted:I can't help but feel like HBO's losing a ton of money doing it this way, but I'm sure they've crunched the numbers and can prove me wrong on that. Netflix, Hulu...it feels like all the people willing to shell out a few dollars a month for those would be happy to shell out a few more for access to HBO's lineup. I think the problem is that they can make more money right now by maintaining the status quo, so they're hesitant to change their business model. That won't last forever though, and if they wait too long it will eventually be too late.
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Diabolik900 posted:I think the problem is that they can make more money right now by maintaining the status quo, so they're hesitant to change their business model. That won't last forever though, and if they wait too long it will eventually be too late. The thing is, they make more money from the cable providers directly this way. If they start offering GO to non-subscribers, the cable providers will start demanding that they get to pay less to HBO directly for carrying their content. If that happens, HBO straight up loses a significant percentage of their income, with no guarantee that people will buy their GO service. In fact, what they'll likely end up seeing is that they'll get subscribers that pay for a couple months out of the year to watch the one show they care about, and then cancel until the next season. This doesn't happen very often with cable customers, because it's generally a much bigger pain in the rear end to do that. It's in the best interests of the longevity of the premium content creators that they not offer that service separately.
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Man, I really hope one of these updates adds BBC iPlayer for us UK folks instead of just getting Netflix and Sky News. They're on basically every other platform out there (consoles, iOS, Android and even Windows Phone now), yet there's no sign of them on Apple TV and AirPlaying from iOS is annoying. Maybe next update... 
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Macrumors lists Apple TV as Don't Buy, are there solid rumors that an upgrade is imminent? Apple TV skipped 2011, but is it safe to assume a new generation later this year?
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It's a definite possibility. With all the new game controller support stuff coming, I could see something new later this year.
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Bird Law posted:Macrumors lists Apple TV as Don't Buy, are there solid rumors that an upgrade is imminent? Apple TV skipped 2011, but is it safe to assume a new generation later this year? The don't buy is an automatic thing if it's approaching or past the amount of days the previous upgrade took. It doesn't mean there are any solid rumors, unfortunately. Safe to say that a third gen Apple TV is still a good purchase, as last generations generally don't miss out on anything too saucy; but one can never be too sure. If you want one, you may as well get it.
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It's also only $99 new (less if you grab a practically new refurb).
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There is no obvious upgrade pending for the 3rd Gen Apple TV. Even the 2nd Gen still gets every single feature that is released, and the only negative is no 1080p (and a lot of content is 720p anyways).
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The only obvious upgrade I can think of for the current design is a Bluetooth remote, but that's not really a huge deal anyway. There's definitely nothing as obviously lacking and easy to add as 1080p output, like last time.
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The only thing I can see them doing is announcing a revamp of the ATV ecosystem with its own app store. Games can be played with a new remote/controller stemming from the new stuff coming in iOS7. Since they just updated it with a new hardware revision (that's probably making its way to the 5S and iPads), I could see Apple saying you need one of the newer ATVs to get this ATV Store/Games. But I'd say that's unlikely (25% chance of it happening). Or Apple could announce a Apple branded TV set that changes TV watching (~1% likely).
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The current AppleTVs ship with the worst graphics chips and only 8GB of storage, so they can cost $99. If the AppleTV is going to get any apps that don't stream content off the Internet, they're going to have to rethink all that anyway, and ship something that costs much more. If any kind of hardware upgrade enables gaming on an AppleTV, it seems more likely they'd add some kind of Wii U-style dedicated wireless chip to reduce AirPlay Mirroring's latency, letting new iPhones and iPads do all the work.
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cbirdsong posted:The current AppleTVs ship with the worst graphics chips and only 8GB of storage, so they can cost $99. If the AppleTV is going to get any apps that don't stream content off the Internet, they're going to have to rethink all that anyway, and ship something that costs much more. If any kind of hardware upgrade enables gaming on an AppleTV, it seems more likely they'd add some kind of Wii U-style dedicated wireless chip to reduce AirPlay Mirroring's latency, letting new iPhones and iPads do all the work. Roku doesn't exactly use the pinnacle of computing hardware and manages to have a few games on their boxes.
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Got HBO Go login, tried to activate on my Apple TV, found out that my cable provider isn't supported for streaming...but only on an Apple TV. I can still airplay with my iPhone. What-the-gently caress ever. God, if you needed proof that digital delivery is confusing the poo poo out of rights holders, there it is.
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Thwomp posted:The only thing I can see them doing is announcing a revamp of the ATV ecosystem with its own app store. Games can be played with a new remote/controller stemming from the new stuff coming in iOS7. cbirdsong posted:The current AppleTVs ship with the worst graphics chips and only 8GB of storage, so they can cost $99. If the AppleTV is going to get any apps that don't stream content off the Internet, they're going to have to rethink all that anyway, and ship something that costs much more. If any kind of hardware upgrade enables gaming on an AppleTV, it seems more likely they'd add some kind of Wii U-style dedicated wireless chip to reduce AirPlay Mirroring's latency, letting new iPhones and iPads do all the work.
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japtor posted:The recent update is functionally identical I think, iirc it's a true single core CPU vs just a die harvested dual core like the rest of the A5s.
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Boxman posted:Got HBO Go login, tried to activate on my Apple TV, found out that my cable provider isn't supported for streaming...but only on an Apple TV. I can still airplay with my iPhone. It wouldn't surprise me if they eventually started charging a fee to use HBOGo even after having the cable service. Everything seems to be going fee based, which is entirely lovely.
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Boxman posted:Got HBO Go login, tried to activate on my Apple TV, found out that my cable provider isn't supported for streaming...but only on an Apple TV. I can still airplay with my iPhone. Charter? poo poo is so annoying. I got excited when I saw they added it to Apple TV, but it turns I still just have to Airplay it.
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Is Handbrake still the best Windows option for converting DVDs to something that can play on a stock Apple TV? I just realized the Mac mini I usually use to convert things has no DVD drive so I need to use my work PC.
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I've been using Handbrake to covert my DVDs on my Win7 PC the last few WEEKS, it works great. I've been using iDentify on my Mac to tag the files since I've yet to find a Windows program that works half as well.
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