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Apple Releases iTunes 10.1 With Support for AirPlay and iOS 4.2
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This is absoutely incorrect. ATV2 uses home sharing to access and stream your content from itunes. Airplay is an ios plug-in and has nothing to do with how your mac streams content.
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Dragging the iTunes.app to Trash, quitting the iTunesHelper process, emptying Trash, redownload and reinstalling iTunes helped for me.
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Dragging the iTunes.app to Trash, quitting the iTunesHelper process, emptying Trash, redownload and reinstalling iTunes helped for me.
Am I missing something, but hasn't iTunes always been able to stream video content to the AppleTV? It's what I use mine for. So what has changed with AirPlay other than instead of the AppleTV selecting content, it done on iTunes side - which makes little difference at the end of the day really??
No, I think you're wrong. Airplay from the mac allows you to push (NOT going thu ATV2's controls to get access to your library).
I have been able to push songs (via Airplay) to my ATV2 but not my home movies. There is an Airplay icon when I start my home movie but does not show the ATV2.
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Ahh, my apologies. I guess I have never understood the need to push from a mac because going from your ATV to the mac offers the same outcome. IOS devices I understand because of the mobility involved.
Integrate social interactions (social media) with comercial offers to buy stuff, and be prepared to be unpopular (any post/link about a song/artist in Ping indirectly is an invitation to buy something in the iTMS).
Why does the option to hide these things appears only now, two month after the introduction of Ping? There are two possible reasons:
(a) Apple wanted to push Ping by keeping it right in front of everybody's eyes for two months.
(b) Apple truly believed the vast majority of users would love it.
And do you think if nobody had complained about this, they would have given us the option to completely hide Ping? Apple is not stupid, they knew that without a strong push, Ping would have had no chance at all. They also know that to keep pushing something that most people do not want, they would be cutting into their own flesh.
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Yes, since about 10 days. The Genius sidebar functionality was gone for close to two months.
This isn't necessarily true (in fact, it is probably false for VLC). VLC simply offers support for a number of different non-iOS-native video formats, it is NOT an H.264 transcoder. Just because you can view something on an iPad doesn't mean that what you see is being generated from an H.264 or MPEG-4 source. This is why games won't work with AirPlay and why some apps (like VLC) probably won't work either.
Good point. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who sent them negative feedback on the fact that they integrated Ping so deeply into iTunes without offering an option to hide it.
This would be awesome....or even just through Quicktime using Perian. Puuuhlease. Having to convert every video is just a bit annoying.
Generally, yes. This doesn't make much sense to push from iTunes to ATV as that's what ATV already does. I'm just hoping other apps can take advantage of the technology so we can play whatever filetypes we want without having to convert them so they can be imported into iTunes...this is my main complaint with ATV, otherwise I love the device.
Yeah like that´s possible to get through all that bureaucracy.
I even checked from their site, that if you don´t have Apple Care you have to pay for call support.Prices were something like from 29,95$ (one time support) to 600$.