Comments on: Apple TV’s “Take Two” upgrade rocks; Causing problems with Leopard for anyone else?

By: dwalk51

dwalk51 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:01:16 +0000

Sure, thats what its for…
Matt Hickey watches 2G1C for entertainment! Should be declared most disgusting human alive for owning a copy of the video at all!

By: David Dugan

David Dugan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:24:19 +0000

@BAGAGT1… actually, the consensus seems to be that the AppleTV at 720p is indeed visibly superior to cable HD (which is, as suggested, not H.264 and heavily compressed to boot). Check out this link:

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/apple-tv-20-vs-blu-ray-dvd-hd-cable-the-comparison/

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:01:31 +0000

iTunes and Apple TV not playing nice? If you are running OS 10.5.2 go to System Preferences, Security/Firewall and change it to Allow all incoming connections. Not safe but it gets things working. When Firewall was set to Set access for specific services and applications every time iTunes syncs to Apple TV the setting for iTunes would change from Allow incoming connections to Block incoming connections. I might have to use a third party firewall like Watershed to get around this one.

By: annonymous

annonymous — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:43:20 +0000

I would send an email to Apple’s Mac OS X team and/or the iTunes application team informing them of the problem your experiencing. They are probably already aware of these problems but maybe not this specific issue.

Just go to http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback for OS X feedback

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html

By: Matt Hickey

Matt Hickey — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:06:09 +0000

I guess you’re right, I’ve got Wrath of Khan ready for tonight, but it’s a transfer from old film. I’m planning on doing a side by side with Superbad this weekend. I’ll let you know how it goes.

That being said, even when watching animated films on HBO in HD I can see artifacts. With the Apple TV, I really saw none. That’s partly because Comcast is tied to industry standards of the MPEG format, whereas Apple is free to play with H.264, which I’m fairly certain this film was compressed with.

By: Matt Hickey

Matt Hickey — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:04:03 +0000

As near as I could tell, it was 720p, but the movie was very widescreen, so even on my 16:9 HDTV there was letterboxing.

By: Matt Hickey

Matt Hickey — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:03:01 +0000

Well, it’s in my iTunes, cuz I keep a copy on my iPod Touch, cuz there are some people who’ve somehow yet to see it.

By: BAGAGT1

BAGAGT1 — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:46:27 +0000

I would not use an animated movie to judge the quality of any HD source. Try finding a filmed movie with lots of action then make a call. I sincerely doubt the iTunes HD will look better than Comcast HD, but if you are going to make a statement like that at least pick a proper movie to make a comparison.

By: Max cascone

Max cascone — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:23:17 +0000

Do you really have 2G1C on your itunes, always at the ready?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:49:07 +0000

What is the resolution of the HD moveis, 768 or 1080?