Nope. You just remove any "channels" you don't want.... It's pretty simple really. Just like removing Apps from your iOS device.
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A&E, History Channel, and Lifetime Channels Added to Apple TV
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Nope. You just remove any "channels" you don't want.... It's pretty simple really. Just like removing Apps from your iOS device.
Except the only content providers you can sign into are DirecTV, Optimum, and Verizon FiOS. Pathetic.
So yeah Apple TV is getting a little too complex now. Clouded beyond belief. It's anything but simple in its execution. Icons all over the place, different cable packages required. Messy menu systems. Yuck. Hopefully this is part of a larger plan.
Argh!!
It doesn't matter how many of these subscription-based network-apps Apple adds to the AppleTV. Nobody will be able to cut their existing cable and replace it with all this balogney. If you have to have a cable/Dish provider to begin with, this doesn't help.
What would it hurt if these apps allowed you to just open them up and they'd work instantly?! We as consumers will still have to watch the ads, just like if we were watching these networks traditionally on our HDTV's. They would just be adding multitude of mobile users to their existing audience without pissing all of them off.
It doesn't matter how many of these subscription-based network-apps Apple adds to the AppleTV. Nobody will be able to cut their existing cable and replace it with all this balogney. If you have to have a cable/Dish provider to begin with, this doesn't help.
What would it hurt if these apps allowed you to just open them up and they'd work instantly?! We as consumers will still have to watch the ads, just like if we were watching these networks traditionally on our HDTV's. They would just be adding multitude of mobile users to their existing audience without pissing all of them off.
It's for people who have cable in their main living room TV, but don't want to spend another $8-10 a month per box on extra cable boxes for the bedroom, kids bedroom, etc.
I used to have a second cable box. But not anymore since Apple TV started adding channels that stream live TV (with a cable subscription of course).
Even though the offerings aren't great (lots of Disney channels, ABC, a couple others) it was good enough for what I call "dumb TV watching" where I can just turn it on and not have to actually pick something out. The addition of History and A&E are very welcome additions, and it helps justify my not needing a second rented cable box.
Awesome news, Ancient Aliens marathon tonight! And in case I haven't lost enough brain cells, Duck Dynasty binge watching tomorrow!
Great, keep them coming!
I know it's now easier to hide unwanted apps, and I hid just about anything TV related in my living room Apple TV (mostly I just use it for hbo go, netflix, and streaming movies from my Mac).
But for the bedroom where this is actually useful since I don't have a cable box, I keep anything I can actually access. So many apps! Can I get a folder option, please!
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It's for people who may have a cable box in their main living room TV, but don't want to spend another $8-10 a month per box on rented cable boxes for the bedroom, kids bedroom, etc.
I used to rent a cable box for the bedroom and would rarely use it. But it was hard getting rid of it anyway, "just in case". This made it very easy to.
I know it's now easier to hide unwanted apps, and I hid just about anything TV related in my living room Apple TV (mostly I just use it for hbo go, netflix, and streaming movies from my Mac).
But for the bedroom where this is actually useful since I don't have a cable box, I keep anything I can actually access. So many apps! Can I get a folder option, please!
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It's for people who may have a cable box in their main living room TV, but don't want to spend another $8-10 a month per box on rented cable boxes for the bedroom, kids bedroom, etc.
I used to rent a cable box for the bedroom and would rarely use it. But it was hard getting rid of it anyway, "just in case". This made it very easy to.
It's pretty common for most people to have DirecTV or Verizon FiOS depending on where they live.
A little off topic rant against Comcast - I don't see myself getting rid of cable any time soon because of their pricing structure. Where I am at, Comcast holds a monopoly and it is pretty much their cable tv, their cable interenet or nothing at all.
And their pricing structure makes it very difficult to not have Cable TV bundled in with internet.
It's like $79+ taxes a month for internet only normal price. Or for like $10-20 more, 200 channels and hbo included, and all these other perks. It's almost like I might as well keep cable. No point in "cord cutting" when they keep having these packages and make it feel expensive to "only" have internet.
I could see myself cord cutting only if I lived in a place where Google is offering their fiber network. No games with the pricing there, since they aren't in the TV business.
And their pricing structure makes it very difficult to not have Cable TV bundled in with internet.
It's like $79+ taxes a month for internet only normal price. Or for like $10-20 more, 200 channels and hbo included, and all these other perks. It's almost like I might as well keep cable. No point in "cord cutting" when they keep having these packages and make it feel expensive to "only" have internet.
I could see myself cord cutting only if I lived in a place where Google is offering their fiber network. No games with the pricing there, since they aren't in the TV business.
The term "channel" means a very narrow focus on a single source of content. Just because you think a channel means live tv doesn't mean calling them channels is incorrect.
Well, let's see:
1. Interrupting ads
2. Product placement ads
3. Subscriptions to channels
4. Pay-per-show
5. ???
Lots of options. No need to continue paying for the fact that in the late-1970s and early 1980s we only wanted to pay for one set of copper wires to be buried under every street in the US by furthering the "cable company" monopolies. They are an anachronism.
And, FYI, if you pay $100/month in cable (the average is right around there), at $2/ep that buys 50 hours of TV per month without a single advertisement, which is over an hour and a half each day. With ads, that buys 720 hours of TV per month (i.e., you can leave the TV on all day and night 24/7) and you still have $100 in your pocket (or $92 if you pay for Hulu Plus), because unlike cable/DirecTV Hulu et al do not have a double-fisted-money-grab where they put ads on your TV and charge you for the privilege (the case could be made that Hulu Plus does, but at less than 10% of the average cable TV bill, it's easily ignored). If you put a little thought into it, you can mix the two models and get everything you currently get from your $100 all-you-can-bear-to-watch subscription for much less, excepting live sports.
Again, the true exception to "you should just cut the cord and move on" is if you need to watch live sports on your own living room TV. There's no alternative there (although if you don't mind venturing out into the scary world there are a number of places you can get your live-sports fix).
Just exactly, what do Duck Dynasty, Storage Wars, and Project Runway have to do with the History Channel, other than as a pathetic and sad example of what is termed "entertainment" in the 21st century?
No Comcast?? Ugh. I think they are a provider on the iOS app though.
It's such a mess on everyones part.
For HBO Go, Comcast is a content provider on an Apple TV. But Comcast isn't a content provider on a Roku. Doesn't seem to make much sense.
TLC is the best example for the worst entertainment this decade. And when I say worst I mean it is bad, but it is also really terrible guilty pleasures for some people. My goodness... and they used to be called The Learning Channel..
I actually love the aluminum remote. As someone else said, feels good in the hand and is simply and easy to use.
Try restarting the Apple TV, that seems to be the answer for most weird issues like this.
Other than that there it's supposed to show up automatically so there isn't much else you can do.
Why don't you use the iOS Remote app on an iPhone or iPad (unless you don't have an iPhone or iPad)?
That is what I mean. You have to use a separate device to have a good remote. It should come with a good one stock.