Notes on Apple TV Part 1: hard'n'soft

The device itself is a surprisingly elegant and very favorably with many other members of the household appliances. In size it is slightly wider than the AEBS / Mac Mini, so it will not be able to put their stack.

Piece of iron is heated significantly, though without thinking it is still cooler than the AEBS.

The included Apple Remote, the same as supplied with poppies, so that by the "yabloyaschikom" can be controlled by any of the existing home consoles, provided of course that you do not create a pair.

With the new firmware (2.3) can be taught to perceive Apple TV and any other console. For example, the TV remote, at the same time knows how to operate the DVD player. Moreover, the presence of a sufficient number of the remote buttons can be assigned to individual buttons for playback control.

One of the best connectivity options Apple TV to a home network is a Wi-Fi. Support for draft n here can be very useful, and the lack of clutter can not but rejoice. If there is a DHCP connection it is a great success, otherwise it is necessary to drive the data manually. The main thing in time to realize that the address is entered as xxx.xxx.xxx.1 xxx.xxx.xxx.001.

Apple TV allows you to sync with one iTunes library and translirovattranslirovat data since 5. Synchronization eliminates the need to keep your computer always-on, although the streaming goes without Problems even with active use Wi-Fi. Is that the connection to the shared music library will require a few seconds expectations.

Unlike desktop iTunes Apple TV is receiving data from the shared library with cover. In this weakling of a low-resolution artwork will be especially well seen on the big screen.

Apple TV supports multiple screen resolutions and is quite suitable to display images as a normal TV and the HD screen.

In iTMS it has a lot of content marked as HD. In this picture of the company HD peculiar: to get movies and 480p, but the Full HD set-top box just does not pull.

An interesting feature: when you play music and video clips from the panel to change the volume, you can (and then only with the latest firmware), and when playing a movie - not.

Apple TV and saw the head of the tracks available in QuickTime / iTunes. However, from the audio tracks it allows you to choose only between the first two.

Even if you do not have a single mp3 / AAC file, and all the movies stored on a DVD, convert who have not the slightest desire, a lot of interesting things can be found in iTMS: regular distribution khalyavnykh singles, series and episodes clips. Not to mention the podcast that is really the mass (including video podcasts). Plus, the new firmware added integration with Flickr / Youtube, so that restriction becomes the availability of quality and affordable Internet connections.

In the console there is no button or disable (at least, without additional manipulation), the only variant - sleep mode, which is like an analogue Standy, despite the fact that a significant part of the functions continues to be available.

Interface translation into Russian consoles made not too accurately. At least, the English version noticeably clearer.

Included Apple TV is only one cord - the power. Do you want to connect directly - zagotovte cable. Just keep in mind that the acquisition of HDMI wires easily lighten your wallet for a thousand rubles.