This is a shame and a waste of potential in our opinion. Surprisingly Apple does not offer any apps or an internet browser for the TV box, despite it being closely related to the iPod and iPhone. Of course Apple TV has no chance when compared to Blu-Ray picture quality, because of its 720p resolution. However, the quality of the trailer and the test film that we watched in HD was good in our opinion, though the computer magazine c’t criticizes the picture quality, compared to other online video providers, in their review. In this case the user interface was also a little annoying, because it just gives you a rotating ‘wait’ symbol and does not allow you to pause. We also found that rented or purchased videos did not download perfectly during testing with a 30 MBit cable connection the film was interrupted several times in order for the download to catch up. The choice in Austria is still pretty limited and the prices are most certainly too high compared to traditional video rentals, although we have the film industry to thank for that. Renting videos from the iTunes Store directly onto the Apple TV was not wholly convincing when we tested it. We did not have any issues with this process, using our Trendnet 802.11n router. But we were particularly excited by the AirPlay function, which allows you to transfer music and videos to your home cinema system directly from iTunes on any IOS 4 or Mac OS X 10.6.6 device. Streaming photos, videos and music from an iTunes library (MacBook Pro 13”) worked perfectly during our testing. These can be streamed from an iTunes library or the internet, or transferred using AirPlay. As already mentioned, the sole purpose of the Apple TV is to display streamed music and videos.
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