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Seems like Apple is not giving up on alternative control methods: They have just updated their March Wiimote-like controller patent, so that means they may still working on it. Or maybe not.
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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."
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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. UPDATEDMore »
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.
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Interesting that the new Apple TV software changes the default font to Helvetica. That's the iPhone standard -- and supports the hypothesis that the mobile operating system is Apple's future.
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.
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 »
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 »
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.
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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.
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Good news if you've thought about using an Apple TV to tinker with Boxee, or setup a media server. Apple slashed the 160GB model to $229 overnight (was $329), and ditched the $229 40GB version altogether. [Apple Store via Macrumors]
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.
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Analysts are sometimes way off the mark with predictions, but that doesn't mean that can't invent ideas we'd actually really like to see implemented—in this case, Gene Munster's speculation about an app store for the Apple TV.
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