Big day in the Apple TV world yesterday. No, not the DRM free update. Not the Jobs/Gates conference at D5 either. Certainly not the YouTube announcement or the 160gb BTO option (seemingly US only?).
No, it was a big day because…
…Apple killed my AppleTV!
Just as I was settling down to an evening of quality streamed video entertainment
I turn on the unit and get stuck in an infinite rebooting loop. No menu, or perhaps a menu for a split second, followed by the Apple logo over and over and over again.
No luck turning it off and on five times. No luck resetting the factory state when the menu’s stayed on long enough for me to do it.
Turns out that when Apple released the iTunes update yesterday, they forgot to do some QA on the server side of things and killed all of the Apple TV units globally in one foul swoop.
They seem to have sorted it out now according to this post, but for a very long hour late last night I was in a very bad mood – so much so I packed the device into my bag today and was all ready to go over to Regent street and demand a replacement.
First strike AppleTV! You best be on your guard if I’m not to start looking at the PS3 with eager eyes (even if it is £500!)
Howard
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May 31st, 2007 at 11:40 am
uhh – i guess, more exactly, i know it:
i need a MAC;
thats looking damn nice . but a little bit
expensive for my cash_hole in my pants