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Apple TV 2.4 Update Now Available, Updated Remote App with Gestures

I love my ATV. I've been working on encoding all my DVD's and I love the new HD movies in iTunes. Hoping to see the selection there increase soon. I agree the ATV has a lot of potential. While it has been a long time, I am really happy to see this update. It's not earth shattering, but I think it's a sign of things to come. As people have speculated using the iPhone as a controller for games and more on the ATV, I think this is kind of a test run to see how the phone works for controlling the ATV. Sure they had it before, but that was a very simple interface. They've taken it to the next level.

Like others, I think this is a positive sign that they have something in the works for September. Hopefully this little update is just to tide us over and test the response to this type of control interface. I'm pretty anxious for September now!
 
just installed the 2.4 update...
also ran the atv patchstick (1.0b10) and boxee and all media is there..

about to use the iPhone app and check out the awesomeness :0
 
Excellent.

I use my :apple:TV's everyday, and my iPhone to control them both.

Glad to see Apple is still developing for the little boxes, I absolutely love mine.
 
Sorry if this has already been posted and I missed it.

Does anyone know if this update fixes the problem of audio dropping out when using the ATV airtunes feature? It really drives me crazy how it does that all the time!
 
Fix for dropping appletv

My :apple:tv used to drop out of itunes all the time too. I set it up to use a static ip address versus DHCP and that fixed it. 2.4 update is awesome.
 
broken

:(

I updated to the new software yesterday. I no can no longer watch HD trailers or movies. Downloaded trailers in HD take upto 20 mins to down load a 2 min trailer and then when it starts to play it stops and re-downloads 45 after seconds. Standard def. reload after 90 secs.

My synced content got corrupted. I had to restore to factory defaults deleting everything and re-update and resync. So far 1 hour to sync two 30 min tv shows.

Not impressed. previously I had excellent performance, now its not usable

:(
 
Updating to 2.4 seems to have broken my Apple TV's Perian codecs. When playing non-iTunes format video like DivX, I get no sound. Anyone else have this problem?
 
windywoo said:
I don't see the appeal of Apple TV. Isn't there anything in America like Sky Plus or Virgin Digital? You pay your monthly fee for television and you can set it to record whatever you want, set it to record whole series, listen to radio, watch something else while recording, record something else while recording (record two things at a time.) You only pay extra for some extra channels or to rent movies.

Seems to me with Apple TV I am paying the price of 4 or 5 months subscription to digital TV and then I don't get anything else on top of that, I have to pay for the music, TV episodes, movies and don't get a choice of when to watch them either.
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Indeed you are probably missing the point.

I have a tivo-like box on my Canadian cable subscription, and that thing rocks too - I really like it. I can also get some new release movies through that - for a few bucks more than apple TV movie rental, and the selection is limited to typical hotel new release type stuff. But Apple TV is different than my Motorola "tivo" PVR thing.

Apple TV is really about showing off your photo's and your own videos to family. It does music also which is nice for the home entertainment system. It also can rent movies - very easily, without the hassle of having to do anything but click a button. If you are a bachelor who never takes photo's, the whole Apple TV thing will go right over your head and you won't get it.

Some guys will say "I can do all that cheaper with a cheap PC box thingy", and to them I say - is it ever working longer than a month before the thing craps out? Other friends of mine say - I download all the torrents I want and so forth and am covered for movies. But these guys don't really value their own time very much, downloading and handling tons of files - whereas I do value my time. So I pay my 6 bucks or whatever, and get a movie and that's it, I am happy. When the relatives come over, I show them some iPhone slide shows. Easy. Also my wife doesn't complain that I am taking over the livingroom decor with some noisy cheap windows box or worse yet, a hacked X-box, like another friend of mine has with the wireless keyboard (which is all crap in my opinion - not worth having junk like that).

Apple TV has some critical good stuff in it, If you can figure out that you'd appreciate any of the key features, it's really worth it. I like it for movie rental and iPhoto mainly.

Oh - Youtube - I forgot about that. My 10 year old and his friends love the Youtube function - so much better to watch them on the flatscreen than have sweaty kids breathing all over a laptop.
 
Dang, wasn't goingn to bother updating the software on my gen 1 iPod touch but alas Apple has gotten another $10 out of me. :rolleyes:
 
Broken Perian Codecs after 2.4 Update

delroy666 said:
Updating to 2.4 seems to have broken my Apple TV's Perian codecs. When playing non-iTunes format video like DivX, I get no sound. Anyone else have this problem?
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Yeah me too. :confused: Had to factory restore back to 2.3.1 and reinstall codecs to get working again.:mad: If anyone has a fix for 2.4 that would be great. Seems to be an issue with the A52Codec.component (at least that where I think I have narrowed it down to) as picture is fine once video codecs are reinstalled.

Want to use the remote app but also want to view my videos and at the moment my videos is winning. Though iPhone control would be nice.
 
JoseJ said:
Yeah me too. :confused: Had to factory restore back to 2.3.1 and reinstall codecs to get working again.:mad: If anyone has a fix for 2.4 that would be great. Seems to be an issue with the A52Codec.component (at least that where I think I have narrowed it down to) as picture is fine once video codecs are reinstalled.

Want to use the remote app but also want to view my videos and at the moment my videos is winning. Though iPhone control would be nice.
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I'm thinking it's A52Codec.component also. I tried a couple older versions of this file, but still no audio. Did your AppleTV go right to 2.3.1 when you restored it? Or did you manage to re-upgrade to that version? Mine factory restored to 2.0.1.
 
BuddyTronic said:
Indeed you are probably missing the point.

I have a tivo-like box on my Canadian cable subscription, and that thing rocks too - I really like it. I can also get some new release movies through that - for a few bucks more than apple TV movie rental, and the selection is limited to typical hotel new release type stuff. But Apple TV is different than my Motorola "tivo" PVR thing.

Apple TV is really about showing off your photo's and your own videos to family. It does music also which is nice for the home entertainment system. It also can rent movies - very easily, without the hassle of having to do anything but click a button. If you are a bachelor who never takes photo's, the whole Apple TV thing will go right over your head and you won't get it.

Some guys will say "I can do all that cheaper with a cheap PC box thingy", and to them I say - is it ever working longer than a month before the thing craps out? Other friends of mine say - I download all the torrents I want and so forth and am covered for movies. But these guys don't really value their own time very much, downloading and handling tons of files - whereas I do value my time. So I pay my 6 bucks or whatever, and get a movie and that's it, I am happy. When the relatives come over, I show them some iPhone slide shows. Easy. Also my wife doesn't complain that I am taking over the livingroom decor with some noisy cheap windows box or worse yet, a hacked X-box, like another friend of mine has with the wireless keyboard (which is all crap in my opinion - not worth having junk like that).

Apple TV has some critical good stuff in it, If you can figure out that you'd appreciate any of the key features, it's really worth it. I like it for movie rental and iPhoto mainly.

Oh - Youtube - I forgot about that. My 10 year old and his friends love the Youtube function - so much better to watch them on the flatscreen than have sweaty kids breathing all over a laptop.
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That's a great summary of the usefulness and the intended purpose of tv.

I'm a bachelor however, and I find all its features useful.

I cancelled cable when tv came out (about 3 years now). I figure that instead of paying $100 per month to have 200 useless channels, HD channels and a PVR, I buy an tv once and then 3 or 4 times a year buy a $100 iTunes card to subscribe to my fav tv shows, rent movies and buy music.

In the end, I'm not submitted to endless crappy tv shows. I watch only what I want and I'm not paying for tv that I don't watch.

The key item that you touched on is that TIME=MONEY. My time is worth much more to me than a few bucks to rent a movie or buy a tv show episode. I toyed with the idea of torrents for a grand total of 1 week. Many burned hours and brain cells later, I found the tv model to work so much better. I value my time. I don't want to spend hours managing my library. I want it to just work from the comfort of my couch.

The only major function missing from the tv right now is live tv like news and sports. If Apple can ink a deal with CNN and other 24hr news stations and with the different sports leagues, then I can finally also drop Over The Air tv and rely on tv 100% for my tv viewing needs.
 
delroy666 said:
Did your AppleTV go right to 2.3.1 when you restored it? Or did you manage to re-upgrade to that version? Mine factory restored to 2.0.1.
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Its only about 4 Weeks old so it must have had the 2.3.1 firmware as the factory settings. Going to keep my eyes peeled this weekend for a fix will keep you posted if I find anything:) I have all my videos in Apple TV containers in iTunes I don't use XBMC or Nito as I prefer the Apple GUI (after seeing the 2.4 its even better). These videos were made using VideoDrive, after adding the codecs by ssh the audio is now not working does the A52codec need to be installed in a new location to get this working again?
 
Has anyone seen this error when creating a patchstick...?

When trying to create a Boxee/XBMC patchstick...?

Unable to mount image: hdiutil: attach failed - Resource busy
install_recovery failed
Failed! (0:00:40)​

No matter how many different USB drives i try, or how many different time I download the correct files, I can't create a new patchstick.... :confused:

Any help is really appreciate... thx
 
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