Zee
2:49 am on November 23, 2010 543 days agoReply
Good upgrade.
Birra
1:49 pm on November 23, 2010 543 days agoReply
Good update, BUT…
I was really excited about AirPlay, just use your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, pick a video and hit the new icon that makes it appear on your Apple TV. So I tried it with Netflix and MLB At Bat and all I got was audio. Turns out Apple has been threatened again (just like with the programmable SIM), that if they did supply video, Apple TV would be cut off (like Google TV has been cut off).
It does work with iTunes, YouTube, and Pod casts. So it looks like SJ will have to be patient and drag these idiots into the new paradigm.
conshmillo
3:32 pm on November 23, 2010 543 days agoReply
Print was one of the things iPad was missing. It didn’t make sense to have Words and Numbers on iPad but not being able to print from it. So AirPrint is one of the 3 must have things I had on my list for iPad.
It is shame about AirPlay and Netflix as it defies it’s purpose!
RattyUK
9:42 pm on November 23, 2010 543 days agoReply
Well I will chime in here… If you have a Netflix account and an Apple TV your are all set… Is there really any point in duplicating a feature? You can have up to six devices attached to each account so it is a non-issue really.
Printing is fine but could do with some control over what you print… perhaps that will come. (Long web pages will print in their entirety, would be nice to just print the first page – you know the one with the bit you are interested and not the 8 pages of adverts and links which follow)
Birra
9:14 am on November 24, 2010 542 days agoReply
@rattyuk Reply To: “Well I will chime in here‚Ķ If you have a Netflix account and an Apple TV your are all set‚Ķ Is there really any point in duplicating a feature? You can have up to six devices attached to each account so it is a non-issue really.”
You’re looking at it from a Netflix centric point of view. I’m looking at from a Apple centric point of view. e.g. I’m playing a movie on my iPad in the den and decide I’d like to move to the living room, bang, I hit the icon and my Apple TV picks it up. That’s so cool. It makes Apple’s ecosystem the center of my experience.
RattyUK
8:06 am on November 25, 2010 541 days agoReply
@birra
But that’s how it works anyway. Watching the episode on the iPad, move to the front room, and the AppleTV picks up where you were, or the PS3 or the XBOX 360 or your Mac or your PC…
Birra
9:09 am on November 26, 2010 540 days agoReply
@rattyuk
You’re still looking at it from a Netflix point of view. Yes, I can be watching a movie on my iPad, then go to the living room and pick up the Apple remote, bring up the Netflix menu and choose continue. That’s quite different than looking at it from an Apple point of view where I simply hit the icon on my iPad and walla the movie shows up on my Apple TV.
GotWake
1:23 am on November 24, 2010 543 days agoReply
I’m on vacation, so I haven’t upgraded yet. I agree that Airprint was a must have. I’ll probably wait a few days for the untethered jailbreak for the iPad.
On a side note, my wife’s iPhone case cracked so I let her use mine. So, what happens? I dropped and cracked the screen on my iPhone 4. pissed me the f&@$ off. First time it has touched the ground in 4 months. Thank goodness for SquareTrade. I do wish it was a little tougher. It’s just a shame to hide it in a case.
RattyUK
10:15 am on November 26, 2010 540 days agoReply
At the moment though that is all blocked. There are no 3rd party public APIs to let you do this… yet. And Google are having enough issues trying to get the content providers to allow their all-singing all-dancing Television solution.
Misunderstood what you meant though Birra, as in you were talking from ANY video source as opposed to the Netflix app. When you said “play a movie” I assumed you meant from within netflix. My bad.
Birra
2:34 pm on November 26, 2010 540 days agoReply
@rattyuk
Very interesting development. A hack (appears it’s available w/o jailbreak) will allow all video to be aired on your AppleTV. I’ll wait and see sites other than Cydia’s experience before I try it.
Zee 2:49 am on November 23, 2010 543 days ago Reply
Good upgrade.
Birra 1:49 pm on November 23, 2010 543 days ago Reply
Good update, BUT…
I was really excited about AirPlay, just use your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, pick a video and hit the new icon that makes it appear on your Apple TV. So I tried it with Netflix and MLB At Bat and all I got was audio. Turns out Apple has been threatened again (just like with the programmable SIM), that if they did supply video, Apple TV would be cut off (like Google TV has been cut off).
It does work with iTunes, YouTube, and Pod casts. So it looks like SJ will have to be patient and drag these idiots into the new paradigm.
conshmillo 3:32 pm on November 23, 2010 543 days ago Reply
Print was one of the things iPad was missing. It didn’t make sense to have Words and Numbers on iPad but not being able to print from it. So AirPrint is one of the 3 must have things I had on my list for iPad.
It is shame about AirPlay and Netflix as it defies it’s purpose!
RattyUK 9:42 pm on November 23, 2010 543 days ago Reply
Well I will chime in here… If you have a Netflix account and an Apple TV your are all set… Is there really any point in duplicating a feature? You can have up to six devices attached to each account so it is a non-issue really.
Printing is fine but could do with some control over what you print… perhaps that will come. (Long web pages will print in their entirety, would be nice to just print the first page – you know the one with the bit you are interested and not the 8 pages of adverts and links which follow)
Birra 9:14 am on November 24, 2010 542 days ago Reply
@rattyuk Reply To: “Well I will chime in here‚Ķ If you have a Netflix account and an Apple TV your are all set‚Ķ Is there really any point in duplicating a feature? You can have up to six devices attached to each account so it is a non-issue really.”
You’re looking at it from a Netflix centric point of view. I’m looking at from a Apple centric point of view. e.g. I’m playing a movie on my iPad in the den and decide I’d like to move to the living room, bang, I hit the icon and my Apple TV picks it up. That’s so cool. It makes Apple’s ecosystem the center of my experience.
RattyUK 8:06 am on November 25, 2010 541 days ago Reply
@birra
But that’s how it works anyway. Watching the episode on the iPad, move to the front room, and the AppleTV picks up where you were, or the PS3 or the XBOX 360 or your Mac or your PC…
Birra 9:09 am on November 26, 2010 540 days ago Reply
@rattyuk
You’re still looking at it from a Netflix point of view. Yes, I can be watching a movie on my iPad, then go to the living room and pick up the Apple remote, bring up the Netflix menu and choose continue. That’s quite different than looking at it from an Apple point of view where I simply hit the icon on my iPad and walla the movie shows up on my Apple TV.
GotWake 1:23 am on November 24, 2010 543 days ago Reply
I’m on vacation, so I haven’t upgraded yet. I agree that Airprint was a must have. I’ll probably wait a few days for the untethered jailbreak for the iPad.
On a side note, my wife’s iPhone case cracked so I let her use mine. So, what happens? I dropped and cracked the screen on my iPhone 4.
pissed me the f&@$ off. First time it has touched the ground in 4 months. Thank goodness for SquareTrade. I do wish it was a little tougher. It’s just a shame to hide it in a case.
RattyUK 10:15 am on November 26, 2010 540 days ago Reply
At the moment though that is all blocked. There are no 3rd party public APIs to let you do this… yet. And Google are having enough issues trying to get the content providers to allow their all-singing all-dancing Television solution.
Misunderstood what you meant though Birra, as in you were talking from ANY video source as opposed to the Netflix app. When you said “play a movie” I assumed you meant from within netflix. My bad.
Birra 2:34 pm on November 26, 2010 540 days ago Reply
@rattyuk
Very interesting development. A hack (appears it’s available w/o jailbreak) will allow all video to be aired on your AppleTV. I’ll wait and see sites other than Cydia’s experience before I try it.
http://www.9to5mac.com/38336/cydia-hack-enables-airplay-in-all-apps