Katie Marsal
The combination of Apple TV 2.4 and Remote 1.3 (free, App Store) provides a new Control button that can be dragged into the bottom icon bar and serves as an alternative to the regular navigation controls on the iPhone or iPod touch.
In the main menus, users can flick or drag a finger across the screen to scroll through items; a tap selects the current item. Pressing and holding on a "menu" item moves back up one level in the Apple TV's interface.
Controls are significantly more complex within playback but mimic actions that would normally require a mouse on a computer. In testing, it works extremely well compared to both the earlier iPhone system and the Apple remote bundled with the Apple TV at first. Apple so far provides a list of the following commands:
- Tap: play or pause the current song or video.
- Flick left or right: skips to the next track (music), fast-forwards or rewinds (video).
- Drag left or right: fast-forward or rewind.
- Flick down (video only): show chapter markers, then flick left or right to skip chapters.
- Drag two fingers left (video only): invoke a 10-second replay.
Update:
Apple on Wednesday evening finally got around to updating its support documents with a list of other features delivered by the Apple TV 2.4 update. They include:
- Flickr Search: Search Flickr photo tags to find recently updated photos of interest. Save searches to quickly find new photos or use as a screen saver for Apple TV.
- New view options: View movies By Genre, By Movie, or Unwatched. View TV Shows and Podcasts By Date, By Show, or Unwatched.
- Updated transport and chapter modes: During video playback, click right or left to fast forward or rewind. Additional clicks increase the speed. Click down to show chapter markers.
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And Apple still hasn't figured out that we should be ably to search our own music files using the white remote that comes in the box.
Now that you can buy Blu-ray machines with internet access to rent from both Netflix and Amazon included on them- like what is the point?
Awesome!
Now give me new Apple TV hardware and i'm in.
Awesome!
Now give me new Apple TV hardware and i'm in.
Hahah. Yeah no kidding. In fact all I'd ask for is a bigger HD!! 160GB is nowhere near enough space to host music, photo & video libraries!
Jimzip
Awesome!
Now give me new Apple TV hardware and i'm in.
Well let's see:
1.) It's not gonna come with Blu-ray because that's "a bag of hurt".
2.) Maybe a TV itself, since Apple is now also an electronics giant like Sony. but I doubt it.
So exactly what would that new hardware be?
I know-
It will come with an on and off switch on the machine itself because that would make it environmentally friendly!
And Apple still hasn't figured out that we should be ably to search our own music files using the white remote that comes in the box.
Now that you can buy Blu-ray machines with internet access to rent from both Netflix and Amazon included on them- like what is the point?
Can't stream my music from my computer with one of thos e blu-ray players. Can't stream photos either.
Come to think of it, can't really store anything on that blu-ray player.
Not knocking blu-ray. I love Blu-ray. Got over 100 movies right now.