AppleTV Update 1.1
June 20, 2007
For you AppleTV owners, be sure to run your Updates today. Apple has released version 1.1, which upgrades many of the features of the popular television component. Most notably is the YouTube feature, which was announced a few weeks ago.
Since announcing AppleTV's integration with YouTube, the site has been attempting to update all their videos to H.264, Apple's preferred MPG4 compression. The complete conversion of all their videos should be complete by the end of the year. The most notable item to note is that YouTube streams videos to your AppleTV rather then saving them locally on your hard drive.
Opening the AppleTV option, you are presented with 'Featured', 'Most Viewed', 'Most Recent','Top Rated', 'History', 'Search', and 'Log In'.
Apple has also announced that the same features will appear as the 12th App for their iPhone being released June 29.
In addition to YouTube, AppleTv owners now get Parental Controls added to the Setting Menu. This appears specifically so that restrict your kids from checking out questionable YouTube content.
So for the lucky people out there with AppleTVs, go run your software updates and dig around the YouTube features. What do you like, dislike, any other features?
Labels: AppleTV, Software Update
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