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Time Warner Cable head unfamiliar with AirPlay

  By Kelly Hodgkins | May 14, 2012 - 8:30 pm | Uncategorized
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Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn A. Britt admitted he is unfamiliar with AirPlay, said a report in the New York Times. During a group interview last Friday, Britt said there was no easy way to get Internet video onto a TV, overlooking AirPlay. Apple's wireless video option easily sends a media stream from your iOS device to your TV via an Apple TV. (Not to mention other options like the Boxee Box, Roku or Google TV, which in some cases offer even more web-based video options than Apple TV does.)

Britt, who claims to be an Apple user, said, "I'm not sure I know what AirPlay is." He added, erroneously, "the current Apple TV, the little thing, the hockey puck, really doesn't do anything to help enable you to get Internet material on your TV." It's a shame that the head of one of America's largest cable companies is so blissfully unaware of the technology that's driving innovation on mobile devices and the internet.

Time Warner Cable head unfamiliar with AirPlay originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 14 May 2012 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How to get AirPlay working when Apple TV is hooked up via Ethernet

  By Chris Rawson | April 24, 2012 - 2:00 pm | Uncategorized
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When I got a new Apple TV, I decided to plug it directly into my Time Capsule via Ethernet to lighten some of the bandwidth load on my home wireless network. My Wi-Fi bandwidth has always been pretty lackluster with my first-gen Time Capsule, even though every device connecting to it is 802.11n-compatible, and adding something as bandwidth-gluttonous as an Apple TV streaming 1080p video from my Mac was only going to make things worse. I guessed that plugging in via Ethernet would roughly halve the bandwidth requirements for streaming to the Apple TV, and checking around with some of my more networking-savvy friends confirmed this. *

Within a couple of days, I noticed some really odd behavior. When using the Apple TV interface on my HDTV, streaming music or other media from my Mac worked without any issues. However, trying to stream media from my Mac to the Apple TV via iTunes on my Mac didn't work at all. The Apple TV showed up in iTunes' list of available AirPlay devices, but selecting it brought up a "Connecting" box that never went away. Trying to set things up via the Remote app on my iOS devices didn't work either.

It didn't make sense to me that streaming would work just fine if initiated from the Apple TV, but not at all from anywhere else. Some Googling around got me a solution to the issue: disabling IPv6 on the Mac via the network settings in System Preferences finally got AirPlay working from all devices.

If you're on a version of OS X older than Lion, it's easy to turn IPv6 off.

  • Go into the Network pane in System Preferences
  • Select AirPort in the list on the left
  • Click "Advanced"
  • Go to the TCP/IP tab
  • Set "Configure IPv6" to Off
  • Click "OK"
  • Click "Apply"

OS X Lion got rid of the "Off" setting in the GUI, but the Terminal app in the Finder's Utilities folder comes to the rescue (as always). Open Terminal and input the following two commands exactly to disable IPv6 in OS X Lion:

networksetup -setv6off ethernet

networksetup -setv6off wi-fi

If you have an advanced network setup that requires IPv6 to be enabled for some reason, you're probably better off just unplugging the Apple TV and letting it connect via Wi-Fi. Most users won't run into any problems if they disable IPv6, however, so if you're in a niche like mine where plugging the Apple TV in via Ethernet is a better fit for your network, hopefully this tip helped you out.

* I confirmed this with first-hand testing, as well. When plugged into my Time Capsule via Ethernet, a 1.38 GB movie loaded in its entirety on the Apple TV in exactly 7 minutes, 30 seconds. Tests loading movies of the same 1.38 GB size repeatedly failed when the Apple TV connected over Wi-Fi, because roughly midway through iTunes Home Sharing inevitably decided to stop working. I never experienced this problem when connected over Ethernet.

In both cases, Time Machine was disabled on my Mac, and no other devices were making heavy use of the network.

The "best" result my Apple TV achieved when streaming over Wi-Fi was loading roughly 40 percent of a 1.38 GB movie -- after over 12 minutes -- before iTunes Home Sharing decided to die on me yet again. So at least in my case, connecting the Apple TV via Ethernet makes way more sense than Wi-Fi.

How to get AirPlay working when Apple TV is hooked up via Ethernet originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Daily Update for April 12, 2012

  By Steven Sande | April 12, 2012 - 8:00 pm | Uncategorized
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It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world.

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Daily Update for April 12, 2012 originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple TV (2012) uses same chip as iPad 2 but only uses one core

  By Kelly Hodgkins | April 12, 2012 - 4:00 pm | Uncategorized
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The latest Apple TV was torn down recently, but it still has a surprise or two up its sleeve. According to a report in Chipworks, the 2012 unit has a dual-core A5 chip that's only using one of its two cores. They discovered it's actually the same 32nm SoC found in newer iPad 2 units. You can read more about the Apple TV's underlying architecture on Chipworks's website.

[Via Engadget]

Apple TV (2012) uses same chip as iPad 2 but only uses one core originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How to control Apple TV with a third-party remote

  By Chris Rawson | March 30, 2012 - 6:00 pm | Uncategorized
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Here's a cool Apple TV feature that you probably didn't know about, particularly if you're like me and the third-generation Apple TV is your first foray into Apple's "hobby" device. In addition to the pre-packaged and somewhat spartan remote and Apple's more full-featured Remote app for iOS devices, it turns out you can control your Apple TV with virtually any third-party remote control. We first wrote about this feature about a year and a half ago, but we're guessing there are a lot of Apple TV newbies out there since the recent update, so it's worth a refresher.

On your Apple TV, head into Settings > General > Remotes. There, you'll find an option called "Learn Remote." From there, it's a simple matter of following onscreen instructions; press and hold the button on your remote that you want to have control the corresponding function you see on your TV.

In addition to the basic navigation functions, you also have the option to program more advanced playback functions. This will allow you to set up fast-forward, rewind, next chapter, and a handful of other functions on your third-party remote.

The whole procedure is pretty drop-dead simple, but results will vary depending on your remote. I didn't have any issues setting up the basic navigation functions on the remote that came with my surround sound system, but no matter what I tried I couldn't get the playback controls to pair up with my Apple TV. At the very least, having the basic nav functions let me toss the standard Apple TV remote in a drawer, so that's something.

This is one feature that Apple doesn't go out of its way to advertise, but like many other things Apple's done, I now find myself wishing everything worked this way. If my TV had a programming function like this, I could finally get down to one remote control without having to shell out extra money for a universal remote.

How to control Apple TV with a third-party remote originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How to control Apple TV with a third-party remote

  By Chris Rawson | March 30, 2012 - 6:00 pm | Uncategorized
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Here's a cool Apple TV feature that you probably didn't know about, particularly if you're like me and the third-generation Apple TV is your first foray into Apple's "hobby" device. In addition to the pre-packaged and somewhat spartan remote and Apple's more full-featured Remote app for iOS devices, it turns out you can control your Apple TV with virtually any third-party remote control. We first wrote about this feature about a year and a half ago, but we're guessing there are a lot of Apple TV newbies out there since the recent update, so it's worth a refresher.

On your Apple TV, head into Settings > General > Remotes. There, you'll find an option called "Learn Remote." From there, it's a simple matter of following onscreen instructions; press and hold the button on your remote that you want to have control the corresponding function you see on your TV.

In addition to the basic navigation functions, you also have the option to program more advanced playback functions. This will allow you to set up fast-forward, rewind, next chapter, and a handful of other functions on your third-party remote.

The whole procedure is pretty drop-dead simple, but results will vary depending on your remote. I didn't have any issues setting up the basic navigation functions on the remote that came with my surround sound system, but no matter what I tried I couldn't get the playback controls to pair up with my Apple TV. At the very least, having the basic nav functions let me toss the standard Apple TV remote in a drawer, so that's something.

This is one feature that Apple doesn't go out of its way to advertise, but like many other things Apple's done, I now find myself wishing everything worked this way. If my TV had a programming function like this, I could finally get down to one remote control without having to shell out extra money for a universal remote.

How to control Apple TV with a third-party remote originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Netflix: HD streaming to the iPad is on the roadmap

  By Kelly Hodgkins | March 22, 2012 - 1:30 pm | iPad
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If you downloaded the updated Netflix app on your retina iPad, you may be pleased by the sharp-looking menu items, but disappointed to discover the video stream looks the same. Joris Evers, Director of Corporate Communications at Netflix, told Mashable "The video is not in HD yet. That is on our roadmap, but I can't share timing at this point."

Netflix already streams to the new Apple TV in 1080P, so it will be nice to get comparable quality on the iPad, too.

Netflix: HD streaming to the iPad is on the roadmap originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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New Apple TV teardown reveals 8 GB Flash storage, 512 MB RAM

  By Kelly Hodgkins | March 19, 2012 - 3:30 pm | Uncategorized
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XBMC forum member aicjofs tore down his Apple TV while waiting for a jailbreak and discovered the unit has 512 MB of RAM and 8 GB of on-board storage. It also has a dual-core A5 processor identified as APL2498, which suggests it is a variant of the standard A5 found in the iPad 2. There's also a second antenna whose purpose is unknown. You can check out all the internal eye candy at the XBMC forum thread.

[Via MacRumors]

New Apple TV teardown reveals 8 GB Flash storage, 512 MB RAM originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TUAW Social Club: Chat about your new iPad and Apple TV

  By Erica Sadun | March 16, 2012 - 3:00 pm | iPad
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Happy iPad day, boys and girls! Congratulations on your new 3rd generation baby -- and possibly on your new 1080p Apple TV.

If your gadget household just grew in size -- or if you're trying to decide whether to pull the trigger on buying some new tech -- come join the discussion in our comments. We and the TUAW social braintrust are here to help you get your new equipment set up and to answer questions to get you going.

So jump on in -- whether you've got questions, or answers, or just want to brag about your new baby. We're excited, too!

TUAW Social Club: Chat about your new iPad and Apple TV originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple TV pre-orders reportedly arriving in US

  By Kelly Hodgkins | March 15, 2012 - 4:00 pm | Uncategorized
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Tomorrow, Apple is launching the new iPad and the new Apple TV. Though the iPad orders have a "future delivery requested" note and likely won't arrive until tomorrow, several users may receive their new Apple TV today, according to MacRumors report.

The Apple TV is a welcome update for users with 1080P HDTVs who want to stream high-resolution content. It's not as high-profile a release as the iPad, and Apple may be letting some shipments through as a favor to delivery companies who are with iPad shipments.

Hat tip to Jim and Isaac

Apple TV pre-orders reportedly arriving in US originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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