Comments on: A few more thoughts on Apple TV “Take 2″

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:45:42 +0000

Forgot to mention my ATV gripe–Apple needs to make the USB port functional for connecting external drives. Surely they don’t want to limit users ability to purchase additional content because of a scrawny 40GB drive, do they?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:33:50 +0000

I love my ATV–I’ve been dreaming about a method of putting all of my DVD’s (give or take 150-200) on a drive that I could access from an interface on my TV without having to sort through all of my titles. I like being able to purchase directly from the unit now as well. I don’t have any complaints about the podcasts, I guess because I’m not a heavy user. For this unit to replace my cable/satellite service, there has to more functionality–maybe something like Dashboard…

+1 on the nice site update!

By: nimbus

nimbus — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:19:18 +0000

Nice site update, bro.

By: KenC

KenC — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:53:14 +0000

Perhaps the fact that HD podcasts take up some serious room is why they don’t have subs yet. I mean, I pare my podcasts down as soon as I listen, and I have 20Gigs of podcasts on my Mac, waiting. That 40Gig AppleTV won’t have much room when you’ve subscribed to the Washington Post’s HD podcast, and others.

By: Vincent Colombo

Vincent Colombo — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:53:13 +0000

I completely agree with number two! Although the new podcast section is overall awesome, the lack of subscriptions is a MAJOR oversight in my opinion. I’ve already sent Apple feedback mentioning the same thing said here; that streaming is great for SD podcasts but not at all good for HD podcasts. I mean, Diggnation or The Totally Rad Show weigh in at 750+ MB. Overall I’m very happy with the upgrade but I want subscriptions and genre browsing of my movies!

By: Bill Shirley

Bill Shirley — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:44:36 +0000

I have the same complaint about FrontRow. Poor podcast support. I really want to be able to view playlists. Especially smart playlists that only show items with zero play count.