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Teardown of New Apple TV Reveals Same 8 GB Flash Storage, Bump to 512 MB RAM
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This is what I'm looking to do too. iPad and this box could replace other internet app streaming devices.
That is the ipad 2. I am not getting the same results on my ipad 3.
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I can vouch for the fact that even with with the iPad 3, AirPlay (particularly mirroring) is worse than it was with the ATV2.
Odd the ipad 3 and atv 3 work incredibly well for me.
what would change this? it shouldn't be any faster because the different devices it should depend on the wi-fi speed.
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your saying when you swipe left to right there is absolutely no lag? there has to be if its on wi fi.
I don't know the technical details. All I know is that yes, as soon as I type or swipe, it responds immediately on the projector screen. Even my games are instantatenous as far as I can see. Nothing like the delays in the video you showed. Maybe I am super lucky or something. But mirroring is working exactly as expected. Even a slight delay would annoy me, so I sympathize with those experiencing lag. But apparently it does seem possible to have it work properly.
Netflix only seems to make available what your device is capable of. For example, everything on our Wii is in 480p/SD, everything on our ATV2 is 720p or SD, and on the ATV3 there are now options for 1080p.
One thing I have noticed with the new ATV, perhaps more likely the new firmware, is that I have had two "crashes" since it arrived. The first was watching StarTrek on iTunes match when the system stopped working and I had to pull the plug, and second was yesterday when it rebooted and carried on working! My wife said it even went back to the song she was playing! Strange!
I agree with you but as for:
I actually wired my house for Ethernet years ago and prefer to use wired when I can. Does the ATV HAVE an Ethernet port? Gigabyte is silly, but at least in my house I have WiFi dead zones. Wired bumps up the reliability.
I actually wired my house for Ethernet years ago and prefer to use wired when I can. Does the ATV HAVE an Ethernet port? Gigabyte is silly, but at least in my house I have WiFi dead zones. Wired bumps up the reliability.
I will add "Learn the difference between Lose and Loose." He/She is not alone, because it seems major publications and half the country do not know the difference either. Another one that drives me nuts is "Than and Then." Why is is that people say things like "It was greener then green, or it was better then that???" The word "then" implies a time change and not an alternative, like "than" does
Muuust beee Monday!
That is incorrect. I have the AirPort Utility app on my iPad (the original one) and my 2nd generation Apple TV is listed as operating in the 802.11n (5GHz) mode.
Interesting. Anyone have a definitive answer on which is more reliable? I read that 5GHz has less interference, but 2.4GHz has better range, or something like that. I decided to turn my house back to 2.4GHz because it sounded like it would be "better" for my needs.
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Yes, it definitely does work at 5GHz, well mine does anyway.
Mine is...
Any devices that I use to stream music or videos is hardwired using Cat6 cables and a Gig-E switch. Only laptops and iDevices are wireless.
Not going to lie, I like the new Apple TV too, but I really enjoy my Roku 2 XS. The Roku may not have the slickest interface, but it offers alot of content.
hmm... I own a Roku and frankly think most the content on it is pretty mehhhh. Only use for it for me is Netflix. I used to have and watch the HGTV channel on it until they killed it. Probably outside of Netflix the only other one worth watching is TWiT. but of course that's just my experience, yours may vary.
I never said my assumptions are correct. I just pointed out that some folks statements written as 'fact' are not and are just assumptions. And if one is going to write something in the tone of being fact, they better have the facts to back it up.
if someone gets mad because I pointed out that they don't know what they are talking about then that's on them, not me.
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Even that information could be incorrect. That is generally based off service part pricing which might not have the same discounts that Apple could have gotten because they were ordering 100k's of a part. The truth is that the costs could be half or even a quarter of what these smaller batches cost. Who knows.
That said, I suspect that amount is more correct than those saying the parts only cost $5-10.
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They aren't doing this because they designed the Apple TV for a specific purpose and such things don't fit it. The audience they designed it for doesn't give a rat's turd about things like Plex and that audience is way bigger than the geeks that would want such things. Let them jailbreak it just like they jailbreak their iPhones and iPads. If they screw something up it's on them, they have no warranty with Apple. They know this, they are okay with it.
The only apps that really belong on the Apple TV are those connected to viewing tv and tv type content. Like Netflix, the sports apps etc. Those are the things they are focusing on. And the things more universally desired by the actual audience. Not everyone wants Twitter on their TV. Not everyone plays the same games etc. Those that do can Airplay Mirror.
The only real gripes are perhaps the exclusion of Hulu+ (but that's likely due to Hulu saying no), the regional restrictions on things like Netflix and the iTunes Store, the delayed inclusion of shows from certain nets (again their call not Apple) and the lack of complementary apps in other countries like the BBC player in the UK.
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If they are streaming from their iTunes library than it is likely via home sharing off the computer or via the whole 'iTunes in the Cloud' features. So they won't need to have more than 8GB of buffer to pull that off.
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I can vouch for the fact that even with with the iPad 3, AirPlay (particularly mirroring) is worse than it was with the ATV2.
Not a universal experience or opinion. This weekend at work we had no less than 7 meetings to go over the shots we were about to film, all of which were done via iPads and an Apple TV hooked to the trailer tv set and adhoc wifi. Worked great. No stuttering, no ghosting etc.
oh and not that anyone probably cares but all 7 stunts went off without a hitch and no injuries.
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One of the sources is iSuppli, a company that earns money with data about the supply channel for electronics. Don't know where the assumption came from, but it's not a journalist looking up component prices on farnell.com.
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I'm neither in your country nor from your country.
And some good news: the Firecore developers are hinting on a release 'getting close' for the iOS 5-based AppleTV. See http://twitter.com/#!/firecore/status/181765452060573696
I'd totally buy a few of these once they're JB and I can get xmbc or plex on it.
I use a PS3 now to stream HD rips from my NAS. I would love to move to a 'lighter' solution like this - just worried it won't be able to handle either the processing or the bandwidth (not GbE !!??).
My PS3 slim choked on the files using WiFi, and my 360 choked using GbE. The PS3 runs great using GbE, but it's like hammering a nail with an anvil.
I use a PS3 now to stream HD rips from my NAS. I would love to move to a 'lighter' solution like this - just worried it won't be able to handle either the processing or the bandwidth (not GbE !!??).
My PS3 slim choked on the files using WiFi, and my 360 choked using GbE. The PS3 runs great using GbE, but it's like hammering a nail with an anvil.
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Blueray at its worst is no more than 54 Mbit/s which would fit comfortably inside the bandwidth of 802.11n, let alone 100Mbit/s ethernet. Atv2 can handle that with a tiny margin, and atv3 has no problem with such streams, in my experience. WiFi or copper, A4 of A5-single core should be enough. But, YMMV.
Really, this makes me wonder when the iPod touch is going to get some form of either A5 or A5X. I imagine, it doesn't need the latter, but still, given that the AppleTV has an A5 (albeit a single-core), the iPad 2 has an A5, the third generation iPad has the A5X, and the iPhone 4S has an A5, what's the iPod touch still doing with not a single model with some form of A5?