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Apple TV Update Stops Your Media From Disappearing
9:30AM Adam Pash | If you’ve got an Apple TV and you updated to Apple TV 3.0 a couple of weeks back, it’s time to update yet again to 3.0.1 — if you’d prefer your content to not temporarily disappear until it’s re-synced, that is. It’s a pretty big bug, and presumably pretty annoying, so grab the update for the fix. [Apple via TUAW]
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10:30AM Angus Kidman | The Apple TV hasn’t set the media world alight in the manner of the iPod, but Apple keeps plugging away. A new update to the onboard software claims a simplified interface and support for some other recent Apple innovations, including iTunes LP playback and Genius playlists.. More »
Apple TV Upgrades To 3.0
10:30AM Angus Kidman | The Apple TV hasn’t set the media world alight in the manner of the iPod, but Apple keeps plugging away. A new update to the onboard software claims a simplified interface and support for some other recent Apple innovations, including iTunes LP playback and Genius playlists.. More »
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160GB Apple TV Drops To $329, Making Boxee Setups Cheaper
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Apple’s killed off the 40GB Apple TV model and dropped in the 160GB model at the $329 price mark. Whether it heralds a new line of Apple TVs on the way or a last call for the “hobbyist” device, it makes for some pretty cheap storage and a super-easy way to cut your cable and stream your media with Boxee. All you’ll need beyond the Apple TV and free Boxee software is an HDMI cable and a 4GB USB drive—oh, and the high-definition TV, of course. [Apple Store via Gizmodo]
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Apple TV 2.4 Updates, Adds Flick Gesture Support And Other Features
10:00AM Azadeh Ensha | Apple TV today released its 2.4 software update, featuring flick gesture support for controlling your Apple TV via the iPhone/iPod touch Remote application and other newly added features. More »
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Create A Boxee Loader For Apple TV From Windows
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | If you’re that rare breed of Windows user who also owns an Apple TV, you can max out its potential with the free Boxee media center by creating a USB stick from Windows—a hack previously possible only with a Mac handy. The atvusb-creator site now offers a relatively stable, command-line based XP/Vista tool that creates an image, offers the tool to copy it to your USB drive, and works just like the Mac-created version. Check this forum post for more detailed instructions—I’m loading Boxee on my ATV right now, and I’ll share the results in another post. More »
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ATV USB Creator Loads Boxee (And XBMC) On Apple TV
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Mac only (for now): The ATV USB Loader, a free tool to boot third-party software on an Apple TV unit, has updated to include the slick media centre Boxee amongst the booting options. We liked Boxee’s new looks and social flair when it was available for Macs (and, later, Linux), and the Apple TV implementation looks just as crisp. By loading Boxee, Apple TV users get access to nearly any kind of unrestricted video or audio files, can send recommendations to friends and stream Last.fm tunes, and do nearly anything else in the (currently invitation-required) Boxee. Of course, ATV also maintains support for Xbox Media Centre. If you’ve grabbed Boxee and tried it out on Apple TV, share your likes and wants in the comments. ATV USB Creator [Google Code via Wired]
Run Apple TV on Your Mac with ATV4mac
9:00AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X Tiger only: ATV4mac runs Apple TV take 2 as a Mac application, bringing all the cool multimedia features of the Apple TV to your Mac. ATV4mac is a fairly young project, hence the unfortunate Tiger-only support at the moment, but it’s already sporting most of the features available to Apple TV along with a few of its own. ATV4mac is freeware, Mac OS X Tiger only. I wasn’t able to try it because of the Tiger limitation, but if you give it a go, share your thoughts in the comments. If you’re dying to get more advanced media centre support than Front Row has to offer but you’ve already upgraded to Leopard, check out previously mentioned XBMC for Mac. More »DivX shows off prototype media player
3:44PM Sarah Stokely | DivX has started showing off their prototype “Apple TV killer” – a low cost networked media player device with 720p output. The Ubergizmo blog got a look at the device and wrote it up:
“DivX made a technology choice that is completely opposite to Apple’s. The Apple TV is basically an entry-level computer without an OS. It has a CPU, a GPU, and a hard drive, these are generic components found in all recent computers. However, AppleTV still need to be connected to a bigger computer (to talk to iTunes).
By leveraging the fact that their device is connected to a computer, DivX shows that the same basic functionality can be built at a much cheaper price, because instead of using general-purpose hardware, it uses only stream-decoding hardware that is a lot cheaper to make.”
DivX is claiming the device could retail at $US99 within a year – that’s a third of the price of an Apple TV. Will be interesting to see if any hardware manufacturers decide to take a punt on it. Mind you – as Apple is no doubt finding in Australia with its Apple TV - without easy access to content, the media player itself is pretty redundant.
DivX’s Apple TV, but smarter [via PVRblog]
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