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The Apple TV Wishlist
It's Not Perfect. What Would You Change About the AppleTV?
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- Larger hard drive
- External hard drive via USB port
- External HD-DVD/BluRay Player via USB
- HD Content on iTunes
- Buy content directly on Apple TV
- Subscriptions for music, movies, and TV shows
- Ability to record shows
- DVD player capability
- Compatibility with other media sources
- Play internet radio stations from iTunes!
- Respect the Sort Artist and Sort Album fields like iTunes does.
- Allow you to rate music as it's played.
- Enable album art slideshow in the streaming scenario too, not just the sync scenario.
- Cache iTunes libraries when selected under sources so that switching between sync and stream is not as painful for people with large libraries.
- Movie and TV rentals
- When scrolling through a large music library indicate the letter upto in a large font (Saves feeling sick when trying to work out where you are up to in the alphabet)
- Browse photo library by roll date
- Ability to look at photo folders within many folders. Current version only allows one set of folder depth.
- Thumbnails for viewing photos and ability to choose start point for slide show.
- Control TV/HI-FI volume from the ATV remote (programmable like Tivo)
- Continuous play of music videos / music video playlists
- Streaming of iPhoto Libraries
- Stream from network storage, independent of computer running iTunes
- Option to run iTunes Visualizer (or similar) during music playback
- Playback of content residing on an external drive connected via USB
- Enable simultaneous HDMI and Component Output
- Alarm clock
- Create playlist directly on AppleTV, or at least the ability to queue up a song without stopping the current one
- On the GO playlist functionality like ipod
- Allow creation (via ITunes) and subsequent viewing of Movie Playlists in Apple TV for people with extensive video libraries
- Make it like a bidirectional slingbox - make the tv connector a pass-through for some other input device with the ability to capture and transmit that input to another similar device (tv in another room) or your computer - or perhaps your iphone. This also eliminates the need for an extra input connector on the TV.
- Internet browser with wireless USB keyboard and mouse.
- Simple Music Quiz games
- A proper power down stand by
- Correct the always on HDMI signal when on standby which confuses auto source detection on HDMI switch boxes.
- Boot Linux from CD/DVD drive connected to usb
- Sugar OLPC on Appletv
- Hardware decoding of MPEG-2 transport streams, and best-in-class deinterlacing of 1080i so we can instantly play back our EyeTV recordings in true HD quality.
- Ability to show a list of HD movies available for rental currently.
- Karaoke... :-)
- Improve video playback navigation. Perhaps jump-forward, jump-backward increments of 2, 5, 10, and 30 seconds or something similar.
- Improve GUI with options to include iTunes-created fields for sorting for movies as well as music.
- Add support for video conferencing (e.g. iChat) and USB video camera. (There is no excuse not to have this on a PC designed for TV's!)
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| Anonymous | Want to see more customization of Library options | 0 | May 11 2007, 10:27 PM EDT by Anonymous | ||
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in addition to continuous playback of ALL media on Apple TV controllable from Apple TV I'd like to see something like an iTunes server program from apple. Something that could zone Apple TV usuage for various family members. Since all types of movies get clumped into the library directory and you need more then one machine running itunes to serve all of your apple tvs it seems like a waste of resources for apple tv to be so limited in this aspect. 1 machine should be able to handle all end user profiles and be smart enough to know that i've watched a movie on one apple tv it's status on another apple tv shouldn't be modified. Apple please understand that people aren't exactly this much in need of dumbing down your products as you do. we can handle a bit of customization here and there.
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