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Agreed, Netflix and playing tunes through it are just the two main reasons I bought it. AirPlay has made it and my iPad two pieces of tech I can't live without.

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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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.
 
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.
 
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.

anybody else have no lag whatsoever?
 
I'm actually watching something in SD. The HD on Netflix looks good enough for me.

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! :confused:
 
I agree with you but as for:

And lastly, most people don't have their routers near where their ATV(s) are used, and wouldn't want to run long cables all over the house to attach them.

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.
 
1. stop trolling
2. find out what "win win" means

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! :D
 
I bought one this afternoon, and it is worth noting that this generation DOES support 5GHz 802.11n. (The 2nd gen supported N, but only 2.4GHz.)

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.
 
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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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.

Yes, it definitely does work at 5GHz, well mine does anyway.
 
Ha! This is a streaming device.
- Is there ANY content on your network you want to share through it that requires more than 100mb/s bandwith? Or even a fraction?
- Same goes for streaming internet video, is your internet pipe 100mb/s? If not, why the heck does it need gigabit? And what content, again, would require it?

Mine is... ;)

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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.
 
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 personally use amazon's service more than anything on the Roku.
 
Dude, we are all making assumptions here. I love how you believe your assumptions are correct and everyone else is wrong.

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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We've been there a few pages ago and multiple people posted links to multiple reports showing a component-price of around $65. Parts only, no labour, no shipping, no marketing, no research, no licensing.

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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Apple seems like they're really missing an opportunity to add AppleTV apps to the App Store, and let people purchase them to install on their AppleTV boxes. Rather than hacking one up to run Plex, you'd be able to just pay $5 or so and legally download Plex onto it (as I did with my GoogleTV), and then get updates pushed out automatically for you too.

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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But that doesn't mean people will always stream less than 8 gigs from their iTunes library.

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. :confused:

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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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.

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'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.
 
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Right now I use a Asus O!Play to remotely mount my SMB mount from my Synology and play movies I have ripped/stored on my NAS. (xVid, MKV, all sorts of different formats)

Can the Apple TV do anything like this? I would like to get a better interface than the O!Play if possible.

Will Plex do this? Does it run on the new Apple TV?

XBMC will run on the new AppleTV once a jailbreak is available. That is my plan.
 
just worried it won't be able to handle either the processing or the bandwidth (not GbE !!??).

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?
 
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