First impression of movie rental with Apple TV (Saturday, February 23rd, 2008)

Published by Aaron Sumner in Apple TV at 9:39 pm with no comments.

In the interest of trying out the new Apple TV features we rented Michael Clayton a couple of nights ago. We’re finally getting around to watching it tonight. It’s paused while B. takes a call, so I’ll go ahead and report.
It’s pretty easy to find a movie using the built-in navigator. On some movies you […]

How often does Apple TV’s podcast directory refresh? (Friday, February 22nd, 2008)

Published by Aaron Sumner in Apple TV at 10:53 am with no comments.

I’m still in love with Apple TV, especially the built-in podcast directory included in Take 2. But is there a way to force it to refresh, or to specify a refresh rate, or at least know how often it find new episodes of feeds? I was checking on a show (in this case, Mahalo Daily) […]

Podcasts on Apple TV (Friday, February 15th, 2008)

Published by Aaron Sumner in Apple TV, Instructional Technology at 11:32 pm with no comments.

I’ve been putting the Apple TV through the paces the last couple of days. This evening I queued up the music collection from my iMac in the other room, turned on shuffle mode, and streamed away. This is a great way to rediscover your music collection, and makes it easy to put some background music […]

Apple TV and podcasts in distance education? (Wednesday, February 6th, 2008)

Published by Aaron Sumner in Apple TV, Instructional Technology at 10:16 pm with no comments.

I bought an Apple TV last week and got it hooked up over the weekend. I haven’t purchased movies through iTunes for it, and probably never will, but have been streaming the heck out of my music collection. I’m also looking forward to some of the features coming in the “Take 2″ version of the […]