Apple TV Is Well Executed

Yes, I bought an Apple TV the day it was announced. It’s installed and operational.

The packaging is consistent with Apple’s nice design, set-up is simple, menu and navigation straight-forward, and viewing/listening is a great experience.

Watching 320×240 formatted video on a large-screen, HDTV set is surprisingly satisfying.

There is a lot of syncing to do, via ethernet cable and/or Airport wireless connection. In fact, I just ordered an Airport extreme for wireless access to the AppleTV, but I wired via ethernet for the moment. I can sync any of the video, audio, or photo content stored within the Apple applications iTunes and iPhoto. The default is not to sync it all, so I changed the setting to all in the preferences.

So far, I’ve tried out music, music video, television show, and movie content. After all the content is synced, I’ll blog again.

Author: jimcaruso

Guy from Earth. Global technology evangelist. Bleeding-edge, early adopter. Writer, marketer, deal-inventor, engineer, manager, executive, and team enabler. Interested in the confluence of publicity and social media, blogging and blog/CMS engines, and everything tech. A proponent of government transparency, liberty, and the Open Web. Dangerously technical. Advocate for good.

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