Why are they selling for more?
Because the 1080p hasn't been jailbroken yet.
Why are they selling for more?
It's cheap enough... go for it.
You can always use it elsewhere later. When I got my 1080p one, I moved the 720p to the kids play room. Or use it for music somewhere else, etc.
1. We want apps.
2. we want to be untied from itunes and a running computer.
3. We want to be able stream from NAS.
4. We want to play mkv and avi divx.
The method described is the way you currently movie around items on your movie wish list. Looks like apps are coming...
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Especially given (4), you don't want an Apple TV.
Who is putting the atv to sleep anyway? It will go to sleep automatically. Non sense function. It consumes no power whatsoever even when it is on.
Some people (myself included) still run their audio through an older AV receiver. In my case, it has one optical, and one coax digital input. I have the optical audio running from the ATV, and the coax digital running from my cable box. Both of these inputs are mapped to the "Digital Audio" input on the receiver. The received will try and auto detect which signal it saw first, and stay there. If after using the ATV I do not manually put it to sleep, and intend to change over to watching cable tv, then my receiver will still detect it's audio signal, and not switch over to the audit from cable box.
I probably could have explained this better, but long story short, there are valid reason why someone would want to manually sleep their ATV, aside from the power saving reasons.
Who is putting the atv to sleep anyway? It will go to sleep automatically. Non sense function. It consumes no power whatsoever even when it is on.
There is also no sign yet of an ability to delete or hide unused icons on the Apple TV menu.
Nice feature, though with the remote control it sounds a bit awkward and slow. Could be easier with the Remote app.
1. We want apps.
2. We want to be untied from itunes and a running computer.
3. We want to be able stream from nas.
4. We want to play mkv and avi divx.
a jailbroken apple tv can do all things i listed, why does not apple open the pandoras box and let us do what we want ?
Why would they want to do that? Apple is an expert at driving other parts of it business with it products and rightly so.
If you want Apple to keep going let them do their thing.
Apple is expert at limiting functions and forcing users to spend money on content they deliver, forcing them to use the device as they want you to use it. Forcing them to change the way users use the devices. Because they know what you need better than you know yourself. This is why lots of people jailbreak their idevices.
Thats the way Apple works. I've accepted it and thats the way it is. I prefer it to be closed. Stops me from wasting money on other junk.
You can still stop yourself wasting money on other junk even if apple was more open. At least they could let us play the video files we want.
Just as there isn't on iOS, never has been, never will be.