Daniel Eran Dilger
The new update replaces the main horizontal menu with five app-like buttons: Movies and TV Shows (for buying and renting content), Music (for accessing content from iTunes Match), Computers (for connecting to local iTunes libraries via Home Sharing) and Settings (which brings up the standard configuration menus from before).
The new interface also brings app-like features formerly hidden in menus to a Home screen page familiar to iOS users, listing Netflix, MLB, NBA, NHL, Apple's movie Trailers app, Wall Street Journal Live, YouTube, Vimeo, Podcasts, Internet Radio, iCloud Photo Stream, the MobileMe Gallery viewer, and Flickr.
The new layout more strongly suggests the potential for a third party App Store for Apple TV, something other "smart TV" vendors have already launched (although there aren't very many killer apps for TVs that have yet appeared, outside of those Apple already bundles.
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58 Comments
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