'Apple TV', All You Need To Know

When Apple TV was launched four years ago, it bombed - but this autumn, with YouView Apple has one more shot. The new Apple TV is tiny not much bigger than the iPhone and costs just $99 . Its exterior temperature is also far less alarming. The hard drive has been stripped out. To use, it's as simple as a set-top box, with Internet radio, films and your home PC video libraries popping up from a single menu. You can also watch YouTube, although typing via remote is an unbearable fiddle that leaves co-viewers fidgeting. Whatever you're watching though is colourful and clear - although it's 720p, not full HD.

Rival film rental services offered by game consoles largely offfer 'male interest' films packed with aliens and explosions. Apple TV is refershingly uni-sex. And it's far better controlling it using an iPhone app than the finicky metal remote.

3D soundscape

Now, 3D soundscape to updates your Facebook, Twitter. AudioFeeds, software that provides 3D soundscape, could soon be alerting you, via your headphones, to updates on your social network and news feeds. The software announces Facebook updates such as friend requests with watery sounds like drips, bubbles and splashes. Bird calls are reserved for Twitter, while musical sounds such as didgeridoo or wind chime alert you to news stories. It achieves the 3D effect by adjusting the phase, or timing of the sounds delivered to your left and right earphones. The idea is to tell you what is going on in your social networks in a non-intrusive way.

Overall the Apple TV is all about getting the max out of your TV viewing experience.

So tell me if you are impressed and will by one? =)

This post was written by: Sridhar

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