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Anyone seen this happen before? None of the apps came up this morning, just home sharing. Rebooting fixed it but very odd.
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Thwomp posted:Yeah, airplay can be restricted by the app so it's on Hulu to enable support for it. But they seem to be holding out for whatever reason/agreement with Apple.
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Jun 15, 2012 15:47
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I really wish Apple would put up a splash screen or something after it does an update.Thwomp posted:I was just curious if it was possible to eliminate unnecessary converting time. Sounds like I could but not without getting into a lot of nitty gritty video details. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ivi/id402279089?mt=12
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Jun 29, 2012 14:58
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The Aphasian posted:More on topic: I haven't looked at Hulu in years, since before they had a paid model. Is it worth it if I already have Netflix? My main concerns are quality and ads--the only commercials I see right now are streaming The Daily Show and it's often the same one or two commercials repeated endlessly. I think Hulu+ is much more about current seasons of shows, while NetFlix is about past seasons. If you have completely cut the cord and are buying shows on iTunes, I think you will definitely come out ahead on Hulu+ if you can deal with the ads. Even if you just watch TDS. I will definitely try it for a month though, having it on the Apple TV is a huge benefit to me.
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Jul 31, 2012 15:37
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Of course the digital copies don't have any of the extras that people expect from a DVD. Kind of sad.
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Aug 9, 2012 03:28
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ZShakespeare posted:Sure they do.
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Aug 9, 2012 22:27
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In other news, wow, if you have a spare Apple TV 2 that you aren't jailbreaking, now is the time to sell. I got $150 for mine in about 10 minutes on eBay. (So my price was probably too low.)
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Aug 10, 2012 16:36
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Apparently there is supposed to be a new iTunes Festival app? Show up for anyone yet?
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Aug 28, 2012 20:43
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I use IVI for that kind of thing. It's in the app store and OK at detecting files, looking up the metadata, and converting it no matter what format it is, including doing a pass thru if it's a MKV. It does the job but it feels a little clunky. Should not use comic sans or Apple equivalent for their website either. Used to be $4 though, now it seems to be $10 which I think is a bit much. smackfu fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Sep 17, 2012 |
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Sep 17, 2012 16:30
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So am I the only one who didn't know you could hide unused app icons in the Parental Controls menu? Begone MLB and NHL!
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Oct 23, 2012 20:58
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EC posted:I'm looking for a Mac app that I think I read about in this thread. It takes files you've downloaded from SAB and applies metadata to them so they look good in iTunes, I think?
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Oct 29, 2012 14:21
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There's nothing obvious Apple could upgrade in the AppleTV anyways. Even the 2 -> 3 was just the obvious 720p to 1080p. Well, maybe they'll kill the Ethernet port at some point. Or upgrade the wireless.
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Nov 7, 2012 00:50
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That first Apple TV was also significantly more expensive. $299 if you bought it at launch. Although it's probably held value much better than a similarly priced iPod from that year.
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Nov 13, 2012 00:08
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Is there any way to lower the quality of YouTube videos? It seems like it uses 1080p versions on the ATV3 if they exist and our DSL connection can't keep up with it. For iTunes stuff you can lower the quality but can't find same for YouTube. So after I hit play it may take 15 minutes to buffer enough to play smoothly. Terrible. I end up streaming stuff from my phone since it is much better at choosing an appropriate bitrate.
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Dec 23, 2012 21:30
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There's no obvious upgrades for the current Apple TV. They could treat it like the Airport Express... upgrade the wireless occasionally and then redo the case design every five years or so, while updating the software much more regularly.
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Jan 14, 2013 15:36
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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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Jan 27, 2013 15:25
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My guess is that it is simply a A5X on a 32nm process, and using it in the Apple TV is a trial, and then it will be used for real in the retina iPad mini. I doubt the current Apple TV is using much of the power of its current chip, since 99% of its load is just decoding H264.
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Jan 30, 2013 18:17
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Feenix posted:The external size of the device will also remain the same.
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Jan 30, 2013 22:30
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On some movies, the Apple TV shows a timecode above the progress bar. Any idea what that is? I guess it's probably the time of the last chapter stop, but why would you want to know that, especially to the millisecond? (Maybe this works differently on real iTunes movies, rather than my rips?) Oh, nevermind, I figured it out while trying to find a screenshot that demonstrates it. But I guess other people might be interested... it's showing the chapter title, which happens to be set to the timecode of the chapter start. I'm not sure if this is IVI doing it because the file doesn't have chapter titles set, or if the upstream file has the chapter titles set this way. Not a big fan... I would think doing Chapter 1,2,3 would be better.
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Mar 25, 2013 15:36
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tonic posted:It has been so off with metadata recently though. I feel like TVDB updated something and iVI is just no longer catching anything. Anyway, if you are using the Mac App Store version, you can download an updated version from here until the real update comes through: http://t.co/8ZMuDjD14R You need to clear the cache too, because apparently it caches the "bad" TVDB lookups too. You can also switch to TagChimp, but I didn't find it as good as TVDB and it was missing new TV episodes. Also, it uses different series naming, so that can make a mess of iTunes.
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Apr 1, 2013 15:17
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Yeah, I've seen that before. My only guess is that Recently Watched is dynamically added and if there is a network glitch, it thinks it should be hidden.
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Apr 15, 2013 14:53
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It seems to me that they could just use HTTPS for everything, and only accept the one correct Apple SSL certificate. Then the Apple TV would basically be able to know that it wasn't talking to Apple and throw up an error.
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Jun 5, 2013 22:07
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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. Still, Apple TV interface is probably nicer than your cable box.
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Jun 19, 2013 16:06
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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.
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Jun 19, 2013 17:14
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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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Jun 26, 2013 19:43
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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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Jul 2, 2013 13:06
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Yeah, if you have multiple profiles set up, the first menu after choosing Netflix is a "who is watching?" screen.
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Sep 21, 2013 03:01
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Is it new that Netflix now shows completion bars on TV show episodes, so you can see which ones you watched already?
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Dec 11, 2013 22:34
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And Directv doesn't count. I was surprised they let that one California station get its own channel too.
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Dec 13, 2013 14:09
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LaserWash posted:Doesn't Apple have a "hang up" with Amazon since Amazon also sells the Kindle? It seems like Apple doesn't want to allow any services that compete with iTunes as far as selling you individual movies and TV shows. Subscription video services seem OK.
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Jan 29, 2014 00:31
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An activity is like "watch Apple TV." It might involve a bunch of steps, like turning on the TV, turning on the receiver, switching the input, turning on the Apple TV, etc. The usual problem with Harmony remotes is that might take 20-30 seconds, and you have to point the remote at the equipment the whole time. If you don't, it ends up in a half switched state. And people who the remote would be best for are pretty bad at pointing it for the full time.
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Mar 14, 2014 13:05
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Mahoning posted:Just noticed that the new update fixed the iCloud photos as screen saver feature. Think I only ever saw it work twice, most of the time it just threw up pictures of animals even though it was supposed to be pictures of my family vacation. Now it's working every time. Cool, we had the same problem. When it worked it was great but sometimes it would just forget and show animal photos. Even though it was set for iCloud in the settings.
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Mar 14, 2014 20:09
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Kenderama posted:Looks like we got three new channels today. The Lifetime network, the History channel, and A&E Do they require signing in to your cable or such?
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Apr 22, 2014 17:30
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Given that, it would be nice if Apple had a generic framework to connect your Apple TV to a cable provider, then only channels you had access to would be shown, and access to each one would be seamless.
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Apr 22, 2014 20:38
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Anyone ever see problems with movies streamed from iTunes on a Mac getting jerky after playing for awhile? Like there will be a scene with what should be a smooth pan but it isn't actually smooth and kinda skips. It gets worse the longer it plays, but if I stop and restart the movie, it fixes it. Not all movies though. Maybe the bitrate is too high?
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Sep 18, 2014 13:26
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Yeah, for instance, you will never get a Beats music channel, even though there's no technical reason it can't be on the ATV 2.
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Sep 18, 2014 14:44
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Akuma posted:Oh my god has anybody else found AirPlay to be a total chore from iOS 8 devices? What the gently caress did they do that for? I find that half the time I can't even get it to start working (when I select my AppleTV from the list it hangs for a while and then exits the menu with nothing selected) and it almost never works if I'm already watching a video on the phone when I start AirPlay. I read somewhere that they changed it so that Apple TV prefers to connect directly to the phone for AirPlay, rather than via the wifi network they are both connected to. So maybe that is flaky. It doesn't seem like you can turn off that feature though, which seems dumb. http://help.apple.com/deployment/ios/#/apd8fc751f59
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Nov 24, 2014 15:30
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If someone buys a new Apple TV, does it have all fifty channels enabled on the main screen? Seems like that would be quite a mess for people if they just want Netflix and YouTube.
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Jan 31, 2015 17:34
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OS X Server will cache app and OS updates. Anything more complicated than that (like web caching) is really hard to get right.
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If you are curious, here's a review of the original Apple TV from 2007. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2007/03/apple-tv-1st-generation/ It actually does look remarkably like a current Mac mini, although it's got a plastic top instead of a metal unibody.
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