Last night, when I turned on the Apple TV to watch a couple of Thomas videos with CJ, the device took forever to boot up. It went through several update cycles, then finally booted up. I thought something was wrong with it.
But something had changed! The interface is different and there is now a menu item for HD Content. HD content? Really!
There are about 40 or so classic and new movies available to rent in regular format $2.99, HD format for $3.99. CJ was lobbying for us to rent Charlotte's Web, but I want to rent The Little Prince, yes, the classic version with Gene Wilder. We have a backlog of movies to watch, so it may be a while before we actually rent an HD movie from iTunes, but I'm psyched that HD content is now available. Woo hoo!
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
The Apple TV Arrived!
Our Apple TV arrived tonight. Apple TV is a small appliance that lets you watch content from your iTunes on your TV. You can stream or sync music, podcasts, tv shows and movies.
So Maki set it up as soon as we got home. It was easy to set-up, get hooked up to my Mac, and register the device.
We viewed a couple of trailers, but were disappointed that they weren't in HD. Apple TV supports HD, and I was looking forward to purchasing HD shows from iTunes and watching them on our big screen TV.
I guess we're being early adopters once again because it turns out there is still very little HD content available through iTunes. The first HD content became available back in April and we were sure more HD content would be available by now. Alas, most of the HD shows are podcasts, not TV shoes or movies.
We were able to subscribe to several HD podcasts and they were free to boot. We are now subscribed to Feng Shui Living, Beautiful Places and At Large in Asia. Those of you know who me won't be surprised that I subscribed to a Feng Shui show. :-) The HD shows are pretty terrific and it was easy to download them from iTunes and watch on TV since the Apple TV automatically syncs the unwatched content.
It's also fun to surf YouTube and watch the videos (even though they are fuzzy) on the TV. This way, the whole family can watch the Rubik's cube how-to-video or the crazy Christmas satire.
I'm waiting for Heroes to become available on iTunes in HD.
So Maki set it up as soon as we got home. It was easy to set-up, get hooked up to my Mac, and register the device.
We viewed a couple of trailers, but were disappointed that they weren't in HD. Apple TV supports HD, and I was looking forward to purchasing HD shows from iTunes and watching them on our big screen TV.
I guess we're being early adopters once again because it turns out there is still very little HD content available through iTunes. The first HD content became available back in April and we were sure more HD content would be available by now. Alas, most of the HD shows are podcasts, not TV shoes or movies.
We were able to subscribe to several HD podcasts and they were free to boot. We are now subscribed to Feng Shui Living, Beautiful Places and At Large in Asia. Those of you know who me won't be surprised that I subscribed to a Feng Shui show. :-) The HD shows are pretty terrific and it was easy to download them from iTunes and watch on TV since the Apple TV automatically syncs the unwatched content.
It's also fun to surf YouTube and watch the videos (even though they are fuzzy) on the TV. This way, the whole family can watch the Rubik's cube how-to-video or the crazy Christmas satire.
I'm waiting for Heroes to become available on iTunes in HD.
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