Looks a lot like my idea for the Apple TV interface, but, you know, with that completely idiotic top bar in the way.

I still think they should go with mine.

Has anyone upgraded yet?

There's some comments on other forums that the content is all either SD or 1080p already. I find this hard to believe, but I'd still like confirmation.

Nice, looking forward to getting home and updating.

I like the New 1080p Netflix also.

did they update the Remote App for iPad too to work the same way?

I'm shocked that there's still no app store for AppleTV

Just wondering if anyone can answer a question for me about the ATV2 and the NBA app in Canada. I have an NBA League Pass login that works through their website and iphone app. In Canada the NBA app is hidden, but if you choose United States as the location in the iTunes setting, it'll show. When I try to log in to the NBA App, it won't work. Is the login really location based? I really hope this will be available in this update

For both the Apple TV and iPad2, Apple seems to have run out of connections to their servers for the iOS 5.1 update. I keep getting "cannot connect" messages

http://ios.e-lite.org

You'll have to do a restore with those images though.

Anyone know if they added an iTunes-style visualizer as a screensaver option for when you're listening to music through the ATV? Still seems like a no-brainier.

I am also frustrated by the top level UI... same problems as the last one IMO. The top bar is obnoxiously large and not very useful.

Also, for someone like me who primarily uses the ATV as a player for my main iTunes library, the top level titles of "Movies" and "Music" are misleading. I propose that the "Computers/Home Sharing" option be removed, and instead, movies and music from your home shared iTunes library show up under the "Movies" and "Music" menus, and from there you chose "iTunes Match/iCloud" or "Home Library" as the source for music.

I still don't buy into this "all my stuff in the cloud" crap. I don't think the broadband infrastructure, in the US at least, is capable, dependable, or even available enough to support that method for the majority of users. Seems extremely inefficient to chomp up bandwidth to re-download or stream content that's already sitting on my computer on my home network, especially now that 1080p is in the picture.

Maybe I'm in the minority, IDK. Oh well.

I know I will get pilloried for even mentioning it, but that has to be the *least* attractive UI I've ever seen from Apple.

Buttons that are rectangular for no apparent reason?
Day glow colours with complementaries like purple and orange side by side?

The old one was a horror to navigate but at least it was tasteful and attractive.

I hope we can at least move those buttons around. In Canada, you can't buy anything from AppleTV so the entire top row (the only row available), is virtually useless to me. I don't like the idea of having to scroll down to get to even the basic functions I use (like Netflix).

Edit: The more I think about it, it's a compete disaster. What kind of crappy UI only gives you access to five buttons on the main screen when we are talking about screen real estate like most giant TV's have today? Why did they make the posters bigger at the top at the expense of even one more row of buttons? Why make the buttons rectangular when if they were square you could fit 8 or even 10 of them in the first row?