Apple TV delivery times!

James Munnelly · Oct 11, 2010, 09:26:13

Not sure if anybody else has ordered one of the new Apple TV's but I placed my order on September 30th and still hasn't shipped! The ship date is 21st October and delivery ~27th! Feels like I've been waiting an age.. I only ordered one of the earlier ones because of the possibility of a jailbreak.

Anybody else ordered/got theres?

Simon · Oct 11, 2010, 09:59:17

I probably couldn't afford one!

Rik · Oct 11, 2010, 10:58:50

I wouldn't know what to do with one.

Hi James, welcome to the forum.

Steve · Oct 11, 2010, 11:46:18

I've got the old one.

Lance · Oct 11, 2010, 12:03:46

Quote from: Simon on Oct 11, 2010, 09:59:17
I probably couldn't afford one!

Only £99 I think!

Simon · Oct 11, 2010, 12:22:33

Oh right, well that proves I don't know what James is talking about!

Rik · Oct 11, 2010, 12:23:37

http://www.apple.com/uk/appletv/

When you can see a link, Simon. Given my line, it would be a total waste of time.

Steve · Oct 11, 2010, 12:31:46

At least with the old one you download first and then watch,but I think it's got a bit of memory 8Gb so hopefully with a bit of buffering most lines will cope.

Rik · Oct 11, 2010, 12:32:26

What's the advantage over broadcast TV, though, Steve?

Steve · Oct 11, 2010, 12:34:10

If we exclude LAN streaming, just film hire from iTunes

Rik · Oct 11, 2010, 12:37:39

I take it you can only do that via the device, and not via general internet access?

James Munnelly · Oct 11, 2010, 13:36:55

Yeah they've managed to find 8GB of internal memory, but with a jailbreak already out in the wild, and it having a USB port, there will almost definitely be external media support. Also the possibility of a cheap, shiny, xbmc (or boxee) box.

Air Sharing (or AirTunes?) is also quite a nice features. You can be watching a YouTube video, a film, tv show, music on your laptop/iDevice, press a button, and it'll start playing on your TV seamlessly [or so they say..]

Steve · Oct 11, 2010, 13:39:00

I've not read up on the differences between the old and the new but you could previously sync with iTunes on the PC or Mac.Previously once you rented a movie you could keep it for a month but once you started watching it you only had 48hrs before the rental expired.

Steve · Oct 11, 2010, 13:40:18

I've got xbmc and boxee on the old version although I rarely use it.

James Munnelly · Oct 11, 2010, 13:42:26

Quote from: Steve on Oct 11, 2010, 13:40:18
I've got xbmc and boxee on the old version although I rarely use it.

Ah that's one thing I'm really hoping for.. primarily for the support of other file formats, unless the VLC core is ported over.. The new one runs iOS so there's already a huge development community for it...