Apple TV owners' thread. - Page 51

That drives me crazy, as well.

FWIW, I solved this problem by purchasing a 'Green' surge protector that turns off other outlets when my TV is on standby. Works great for keeping my Apple TV off when I am not using it. It's a little bit of a drag when starting the TV back up - there is a delay as the Apple TV cold boots, but it's tolerable.

There is a discrete code to put the aTV to sleep - it is in Harmony's database.

The "problem" is that the aTV can support almost any remote so it is listening for wide range of IR codes and sending an TV IR code, for example, in aTVs general direction will turn it on. I'm not sure whether it actually turns on, or will just process the IR code, but the result is that the pilot light is turned on.

Thanks. Good to know. I will update my Harmony One.

That's because it won't work. You have to have the ATV learn the code. What the ATV can do is learn virtually any remote. It's very neat that way.

Philip

Why bother? The ATV sips electricity as it is... barely a blip. On, it uses hardly anything. In standby mode, it uses even less... I suspect we're talking less than $5 for a year, if that much.

+1

I have found just setting it to never sleep and eliminated a couple of issues: 1) delayed loading of metadata after wake up and 2)a couple of times communication with iTunes was lost while sleeping. Since keeping it awake all the time there have been no issues.

Hey guys! New Apple TV owner here. I've been reading about all this jailbraking and it's definitely peaked my interest. I'm a bit confused concerning all the different versions of Apple TV... I just bought mine yesterday from BB so I assume it's the Apple TV version 3? If so, is this version even possible to jailbreak?

Not yet!

As I said, I don't know whether the aTV actually turns on, but I read somewhere that this is what turns the LED on.

How can one tell if it is an AppleTV version 2 or 3??

If you can do 1080p then you have the new Apple TV

Well, I just confirmed that it is the new 3rd gen, however I can only go up to 720p in the settings. My TV is a 55" Samsung DLP which has a native res of 1280x720. Is this the reason I can't select 1080p?

If you don't have a 1080p set, what's the point of outputting a 1080p signal that has to be scaled down to 720p?

^^^^ Working on it there bro. New displays cost money you know!

I think you mistook what Kalani was saying. He's saying that if your tv only supports 720 then there's no sense in selecting 1080 even if it was available, but yes thats why you can't select it.

Bingo.

Well, for some reason my TV supports 1080, so I was confused. Thanks for the clarification though!

In that case, it's a 720p TV that is scaling 1080p signals internally to match the native output, so it can accept a 1080p signal but it doesn't truly offer actual 1080p output ... it has to downrez the video feed to 720p before displaying.

Generally, you'll be better off letting the AppleTV just feed it an appropriate 720p signal in the first place as the quality of a native 720p signal will be better than a downconverted 1080p signal. (Generally... there are exceptions to this, but in your situation I stand by the recommendation to be happy with 720p output from the ATV until you are able to upgrade to a 1080p TV.)

I agree it's odd that the ATV won't let you choose 1080p, if your TV supports it, but perhaps the ATV is smart enough to detect that it's actually native 720p and locks onto that instead of risking you degrade the PQ by choosing the option that would be less optimal.

Thanks Kalani, My main concern was that I indeed got the ATV3 as opposed to the ATV2 and knowing that the highest res the 2 could produce was 720p and that was all that was showing as my options got me wondering. This was before I confirmed that it was a Version 3 by looking up the model numbers online.

My goal is to purchase a new Samsung LED monitor in the near future... it's just hard to reason with a wife that thinks our DLP "is just fine". I told her that the next time the lamp goes out we're getting a new TV. We'll see how that one pan's out.

Just my two cents.
I used to be a big fan of ATV. It was awesome getting all the album art in iTunes all organized and nice looking, streaming to 3 appletvs I had throughout the home. now its a bunch of hodge podge. Nothing is organized, with that firecorellc update, it makes it even worse.. you have movies/tv on the top row, items you purchased, items on your computer and then finally the fire core updates. There is no way my wife can figure out where a movie I put is located if she even wanted to watch one.. its way too complicated! Either its gonna be in the movies purchased, on my computer, or in the fire core media player.. whats up with that?? I'm gonna stick with boxees for now, hopefully apple will clean all this stuff up someday and make it simpler.

Mo

The ATV GUI is complicated?......Really?

Yes, especially for a wife.