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Apple TV 3.01 Update Saves Your Data From "Temporarily Disappearing"
Word to the wise: Update your Apple TV to 3.01 stat, else suffer the strange data disappearing act some users report is occurring with 3.0 during syncing. It's important to note the data was not deleted, just "invisible." More »HD Media Player Battlemodo: Apple TV Killers
When Apple TV 3.0 came out, we were unimpressed. Readers asked what else they could use to play their many videos. Here are five nice ones for your needs—nearly all cost less, and do more, than ATV. UPDATED More »Apple Wants iTunes to Replace Your Cable Box for 30 Bucks a Month
Apple's apparently pitching to networks a subscription plan that would deliver all your TV shows through iTunes for $30 a month, with the goal of launching it next year. More »11/02/09
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Here's another thing to look into: how much of the Apple TV interface will be ported to the forthcoming tablet? Obviously the highly anticipated device will be touchscreen, while the Apple TV relies on a clunky remote. But it has a similar amount of screen real estate -- and it's likely that Apple will push the device as a TV and video viewer at least as much as a book reader.
In fact, one could imagine the tablet as a control device for home entertainment. An app with the functionality of the Remote app on the iPhone -- but making use of the increased real estate of the tablet. So the Apple TV would be reduced even further to a relay device, a fancy version of an Airport Express -- with most of the intelligence and interface existing on the tablet.
The tablet could be positioned as subsuming the functionality of the Apple TV. That would also give Apple an elegant way to exit from a product line which has been something of an embarrassment.
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12 Things You Need To Know About Apple TV 3.0
If there's one Apple product that lives outside the Reality Distortion Field, it's Apple TV. But hey wait, 3.0 is out, doesn't that change everything? Well, considering Apple rolled it out on a Thursday afternoon with no fanfare, whattaya think? More »iTunes 9.0.2 Is Here With Apple TV 3.0 Love and Not Much Else
Apple TV 3.0 Software Is Out, New Interface Looks Fugly
Atten-shun! The new Apple TV 3.0 is out. As rumored, it includes iTunes Extras, iTunes LP, and Genius Mixes, but also a surprise: A new user interface. Question: Is Steve Jobs too busy overseeing the tablet development? This looks uggghsome: More »Apple TV 3.0 Can Play iTunes LP and Extras Like a Real Video Box
The updated iTunes terms & conditions has a new paragraph under the iTunes LP section spilling Apple TV 3.0—namely, that it'll finally support iTunes LP and Extras viewing. More »GlideTV Navigator: A Trackpad for Your Hand
The GlideTV Navigator—a trackpad remote for an HTPC, AppleTV, WMC, Boxee, PS3 or Mac—is shaped so strangely that you figure the ergonomics must be amazing. More »Apple TV Still A Dud After Price Cut
Lower pricing hasn't made the Apple TV set-top box a smash hit. More »40GB Apple TV Quietly Killed, 160GB Cut to $229
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The iPhone 3.0 version of the Remote app now supports Apple TV controls with gesturing, which should give you a lot more flexibility than the standard little Apple Remote you already have. More »Ideas We Like: App Store for Apple TV
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According to PhoneNews, Apple has instructed licensed retailers to put their old iPhone/iPod touch A/V cords on clearance. Why? There's a new cord coming that supports HD output for AppleTV-like functions. More »Despite Funky HTML Encoding, Boxee Still Plays Hulu Video Just Fine
Yesterday you may have read reports of a tricky security measure Hulu put in place to scramble its video embed codes using JavaScript to thwart unauthorized viewing. Well, it didn't stop Boxee. More »Vuze (aka Azureus) Makes Torrenting Video Even Better With Easy Conversion and Streaming
Azureus (now Vuze) has always been one of the bloatier BitTorrent clients, but I've stuck with it because I like the new UI. Now it's even more useful: It streams and converts videos automatically. More »Boxee Gets iPhone App Remote Control With Funky Trackpad Interface
Boxee is one of those fun media programs/Apple TV hacks that we love to mess around with, so it's obviously good news that there's now a free iPhone app Boxee remote. More »Apple Patent Specs Wii-Like Controller For Apple TV
Of all the things wrong with the Apple TV, its awkward control scheme via the Apple Remote is pretty niggling, but a recently published patent shows a new motion-sensing controller potentially in the works. More »Reminder: If You Love Your Boxee, Turn Off Automatic Apple TV Updates
Apple pushed a small Apple TV update to users last night, many of whom awoke to find their lovely, Hulu'd-despite-it-all Boxee installations brutally murdered. Again. Lesson: turn off automatic updates. UPDATED More »Seagate's FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player Is a Set-Top Dock for Hard Drives
Last night, I previewed Seagate's FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player, which docks those super-slim FreeAgent 2.5" USB drives in order to connect your video files to your TV. More »