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Apple Adds New Apple TV Channels TED, Tastemade and Young Hollywood
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But this actually is the main problem of nearly all recent Apple TV updates. They are only available to a reduced number of customers and though seen as not relevant to be mentioned or discussed.
Does anyone know how big each channel is? 5mb? 50mb? More and more channels get added and I can just hide them but i would prefer to delete them. While so far I haven't seen space issue limitations, I would guess I could hold more of my owned movies and shows in the temp space if they keep adding cable channels that I don't have each month.
A whole channel devoted to the cancelled show "Better off Ted"! Cool!
LOVED that show!!
How to move TV icons/channels
To move icons/channels on your TV home screen, highlight an icon/channel, hold down the select button on the remote, when the icon "wiggles" use the directional buttons on the remote to place the icon/channel in a new position, press select to stop the "wiggle".
To move icons/channels on your TV home screen, highlight an icon/channel, hold down the select button on the remote, when the icon "wiggles" use the directional buttons on the remote to place the icon/channel in a new position, press select to stop the "wiggle".
This same chatter was present about a year ago. I think apple is holding off releasing new hardware because they want to coincide hardware and service but the agreements have not been signed yet. Hence the more than a one year delay. Sucks!
It will take a re-architecting of the underlying software. The way I understand it, is that unlike a normal OS X or iOS device, where you have an operating system and a series of applications that run on that OS, the Apple TV interface is one giant application (running on iOS), with new channels just being additional features added to that one application.
Until they re-write it to have a base "ATV OS" with apps running on top, an App Store is not particularly feasible, at least as you're seeing it - as it stands, every app/channel will still have to be included in the base program, which limits the number of total apps/channels in the catalog.
Presumably that's what Apple has been doing these past couple of years, no? The current GUI was never great but it's absolutely clunky now and can't bear the weight of additional channels. Asking the consumer to delete unwanted bloat is one of those things that annoys people about MS Products, right?
Let's just say it's a little different in nature than previous rumblings, both in source and intensity. It might be false positive, but it's definitely more positive than prior years. I've been in the tech sector a _long_ time and it's definitely setting off my Spidey Sense
Actually, Monica Lewinsky has gotten interesting in her middle-age. She basically talks about what it's like to have one's life dragged through the public media at an extremely young age and be totally unprepared for it. It's interesting to hear that side of it, as most of us just get blasted with the judgmental-moralizing-grandstanding-bombastic-voyeuristic-parasitic-grandstanding media viewpoint when these scandals happen. It's interesting to contrast that with an actual human perspective. Like it or not, these types of spectacles are now part of modern human culture.
But at what cost? This is going to cost as much as cable. Why go through the hassle?
And yet, clearly, you enjoying coming here and participating in this random silliness.
How many times have we heard that since the Apple TV 2 was released in 2010?
I'll believe it when I see it.
At least once. When they brought out the Apple TV 3.
Please delete that comment before anyone from Apple reads it and gets ideas... LOL
I've always seen AppleTV as similar to NewsStand or iBooks on my iPhone. The interface is basically a container running on iOS that contains the various media. My guess is that any revamp will simply be allowing us to see the iOS main level outside of this container.
Unlike most though I don't buy into the rumors and don't get sad and cry about it on the forums when a rumor doesn't come true. If only more people here understood what the word "rumor" means and got that it's not a guarantee.
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The 3 is really no different than the 2. Adding slightly better streaming quality doesn't mean a full version upgrade in the minds of most.
If I want to watch something, I want some Spotlight search that'll search for it on all the apps.
