![]() Music playback is excellent, although photo playback is limited to simple slideshows and you can’t display any movies you might have stored in iPhoto. It’s highly responsive, although there are a few kinks to it that take some time to get used to, such as the way the forward and reverse functions work, the way the Apple TV sorts content and displays information about it, and the occasional difficulty getting wireless streaming clients to pair up with it initially. ![]() ![]() The Apple TV does have a simple, attractive interface, very similar to Front Row’s so any Mac owner with a recent model will already know how to use it. In practice, everything doesn’t work so smoothly. You can also stream video and audio content from five other Macs or PCs. It grabs everything in iTunes and iPhoto (or Photoshop Elements on a PC) that it can and then lets you display it on your TV. You set the Apple TV to sync with one Mac or PC. Forget any ideas of recording TV or any other kind of video content on an Apple TV: with no TV tuner or video inputs, the Apple TV needs its content to be on your Mac or PC first for it to go anywhere near it. The aim of the Apple TV is to unite your computer and its digital content with your widescreen television set using your home network. ![]() The Apple TV is an exciting combination of both, hobbled simultaneously by current technology and limited functionality. Sometimes a product doesn’t quite have the spec to take the market by storm. Sometimes a product comes to market before the market is really ready. ![]()
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