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Apple TV in the house

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Yesterday I got one of the first shipment of Apple TV units to arrive at the local Apple Store. The simplest way to think of the Apple TV is to think of it like an iPod for your living room. It lives seamlessly in the iTunes universe, has a 40G local hard drive and interfaces painlessly via HDMI with your high definition television.

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Setting up the Apple TV was simple and straightforward. It’s amazingly quiet. I am confused though why Apple put a relatively short power cable in the box. Seems to only be around 5 feet long, which seems rather short for a device like this.

The interface is simple and elegant. Easy to find and play the media that you want. I’ve been enjoying it for music, and am now starting to play with it a bit more for photos and movies. My first attempt at encoding a DVD for playback on Apple TV was a mess - the audio was out of sync and the picture looked pretty bad. Need to figure out the right magic to make that work.

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Written by Jamie

March 23rd, 2007 at 9:11 pm

3 Responses to 'Apple TV in the house'

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  1. Wow, it’s like a SUPER TIVO!

    Brian J. Hong

    24 Mar 07 at 12:57 am

  2. You’ve probably figured it out by now - but both handbrake/mediafork or MPEG Streamclip (encoder only) should do the job converting video for iTunes/Apple TV

    Chad

    27 Mar 07 at 10:19 am

  3. [...] I mentioned in another post how much I’ve been enjoying iTunes. A few weeks ago I extended my Apple TV coverage to the family room and it just hit me as I was looking at my iTunes window how fully [...]

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