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Review: Apple TV 1.2

Posted on June 20, 2007 | 3 comments |

Most people won't care, but Apple today updated its Apple TV device to include YouTube support

YouTube

It also updated it with a couple of other useful extras at the same time. You can now select the appropriate iTunes Store for your country to make sure the “iTunes Top TV episodes” and “iTunes movies” options don't appear unless you're in the US because you can't buy bloody anything from the iTunes Store unless you're in the US.

Apple TV store

You can also sort things by date, which is helpful if you don't name your files properly or the cocking useless Apple TV sorts things out of order.

Date sorted Apple TV

How about a “play stuff that's recorded in some format I might actually have” option, Apple?

Updates and related entries

November 30, 2007: I've finally found a use for the YouTube function on the Apple TV

3 Comments For This Post

  1. Scott Matthewman wrote:
    June 21, 2007 | Reply

    Rob, do you know if the Apple TV's YouTube implementation will play any of the embedding-disabled videos in the BBC channel?

  2. Rob Buckley replied to Scott Matthewman's comment:
    June 21, 2007 | Reply

    I'll have a look tonight for you.

  3. Rob Buckley replied to Scott Matthewman's comment:
    June 21, 2007 | Reply

    The quick answer is no, it won't. I don't know whether that's because they're blocked or they're not yet available in the H.264 format necessary but will be at some point. Certainly a quick search for "Saxon" turned up nothing.

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