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- price
- size
- speed
- temperature
- noise
- apple integration
- apple remote via iphone/ipad
- airplay from iphone/ipad
- stream all video formats without jailbreak with the help of airvideo server/mac airvideo client/airflick.
- stream screen of mac to apple tv, even if usage is in question
- stream pdf, ppt and other content from mac to apple tv, (airflick 0.30)
- easy renting of movies
- remote (really use all that many buttons on the others? the aluminum version is just gorgeous)
- streaming is the only real solution, I hate copying from disk to disk or whatever.
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- no simple way to stream Video_TS - need to use some manual process
- remote signal received only from a limited angle. I used to play games with the remote and the iMac or Mac book. I pointed the remote to the ceiling etc and I still was able to navigate, but with the apple tv2 the receiving angle is narrow to say the least.
- Volume control!!! It sucks to have to turn to another remote to control volume, but I think this is not achievable if the audio is going out optical or is it the other way around. I have not been able to enable it and successfully up or down it.
Bugs
- Can be crashed with airplay from iphone
- Caches metadata from itunes library and only updates when restarted. If you feel like you need to add some covers to your movies and then want to see it on apple tv. Nothing helped except power off/on of the appletv2.
- Takes too long to start showing photos when connecting to our 30'000 plus library. It should give something back sooner and continue loading in the background.
Missing features
- itunes based streaming very limited in how to select movies, i.e. genre, by movie, unseen, playlist but not by selecting year, actors etc.
- Photo browsing is a pain. We have over 30'000 pictures and if we want to go by events, we have to scroll down for more than 20 seconds to reach the latest pictures. It should offer a lot more ways to explore the photos, I still hope for an Ipad app that lets me view my pictures from our big iphoto library and present this also on the apple tv (kind of like tv-out with a photo app that is connected to iphoto on the mac).
Missing
- iOS Apps?
- iphone/ipad gameplay over airplay?
- more dynamic content, it gets really boring after seeing the static animal selection over and over again, apple should make it easy to allow for dynamic additions of the pictures. People would just sit in front of the apple tv and wait for the origami screen saver with beautiful pictures updated dynamically. It is somehwat possible but if you do a flicker search it is limited to 100 pictures and they stay the same for too long. Maybe one should add the possibility to playlists for screen savers, i.e. best selection for yosemite done by users and some nice background music.
- dynamic content, see news and pictures of the album/singer of the currently playing peace, maybe even let one explore some content seen
- genius for apple tv?
Never to have features
- 1080p from Apple
- a sigma design chip that eats all
What were my previous boxes?
windows pc
mac with plex/xbmc/boxee
netgear
popcorn
apple tv
wd tv
wd tv live
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