[Dan Frakes]

tallscot said:

My DirecTV DVR never sucks. It works all the time. I have enough trouble-shooting with my computers. I don't want to bring that trouble-shooting experience to my TV, or my phone for that matter.

If your DirecTV DVR "never sucks," tallscot, clearly you have different expectations for your DVR than you do for your computer ;)

[smax013]

folklore said:

Thanks for posting your power results - it always helps to have multiple measures of such things. FWIW, I think the 15 watt figure was when the AppleTV was idle, which is when it would be sleeping (if it could).

Boy, you are demanding! Now you want to measure it while it is sleeping! ;)



OK, since you asked so nicely and seem like a nice enough person, I will be glad to test it (if I had not had a brain crap before, I would have done it then). After all, I have about 45 minutes before the Wings try...again...to win the Cup...and cooking my burger on the grill and eating it should only take me about 15 to 20 minutes of that time. You might have to wait until after the game to get the results, however. :)

[smax013]

Just to report...I am getting about 15 to 16 watts when it is "powered down". It only goes up to about 17 watts when "powered up" but idle (i.e. just sitting on a menu with nothing playing).

[seeje]

I couldn't agree more with the report and comments and glad I am not the only one experiencing such issues. One more to add to the "what ticks me off" list - inability to navigate to specific iPhoto events and film rolls.

[2020hindsight]

I can live with most of the annoyances of the AppleTV - the fact that I have to rip the power cable out every so often and so on.

But I there are three main issues which really bug me.

The first (and lesser of the three) is why on earth it takes so long to load up the library when I reconnect my Mac. OK, the library has something like 6000 items in it (but that ain't big by the standards of some) in a 13mb file. The Apple TV streams movies brilliantly - yet takes almost a minute to load in the libary.

The second (and middlingly annoying) is the fact that since I don't use the internal disk, most of the menu options - and all of which are a the top - are not relevant. I can't go directly to my movies, I have to move down through the options.

But the biggest frustration is the lack of playlists for moves and tv episodes. I want to be able to create playlists of favourite action movies, TV episodes I haven't seen in over a year - all the stuff that comes for free with music. Why oh why oh why can Apple not provide this same functionality for movies and TV ?

[cronejp]

Having read through 6 pages of comments about martinis (what???)

heat dissipation, PVR's, etc. I'm surprised that I'm the only one posting this.

I don't want to shuffle my music by songs.

There, i've got it off my chest. I have an iPod. Every single playlist is set

to play by album, I can start it up, it will shuffle by album, and all that brilliant

classical music I have plays album by album start to finish. The live performances

play end to end. I just get the ALBUM's in a shuffle order. exactly what I want.



So why on earth can't I have that option on my AppleTV.? My wife accidently picked

the wrong playlist on the weekend, and we found ourselves going from Yo Yo Ma to

Def Leopard... That was not what our intent.... (purchased content....)



Oh yes, I want more content: I also can't figure out why on earth all the quick time movies

from my digital camera that show up in iPhoto, didn't sync over to the AppleTV either,

and I can't convince them to sync, so my kids who want to see their movies can't.



Thats my two complaints on my one week old apple TV (yes, and its too damned hot)

[buffalobob]

Dear Cronejp,

If you open iMovie, you will find your iphoto movies available. Make a new project with the clips you have and just go up to the share menu and share to iTunes.

Enjoy them on your AppleTV!