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Apple TV – What Are You Watching?
The time has finally arrived where you can now watch all your favorite iTunes video downloads, along with viewing all your personal photos stored on your hard drive, on your television set.
Enjoy the music videos, TV shows, movies, previews, YouTube videos, photo galleries, iMovies, podcasts, and all the tracks and album cover art in your iTunes library, all through your home theater system: projected onto your big-screen TV and broadcast through your 5.1 digital surround sound speakers.
And just like iTunes syncs up your iPod any time the two are connected, whenever you add something new to your iTunes library, your Apple TV is automatically updated.
To watch Apple TV you need four other items (that’s not including with the unit itself):
- a TV – widescreen, enhanced definition, or high-definition, with either 480p, 576p, 720p, or 1080i resolution;
- a computer – Mac or PC, either one, just so long as it has iTunes 7 installed;
- a network – Broadband internet access, whether wireless or hired-wired ethernet (the Apple TV unit comes with built-in Wi-Fi);
- and the right cables – HDMI to HDMI, HDMI to DVI, or component video cable with either analog stereo or digital audio.
The Apple TV unit is sleek and stylish, an attractive and unimposing feature of any room in the house. It sits at a modest 7.7″ x 7.7″ around, with a height of 1.1″ and weighing 2.4 lbs. It runs on an Intel processor and has a built-in universal 48-watt power supply.
When you buy your Apple TV, you’ll get to choose from 2 different capacities:
- 40 GB for up to 50 hours of video or 9,000 songs;
- 160 GB for up to 200 hours of video or 36,000 songs.
And, last but not least, as any good television should, the Apple TV also comes with a handy-dandy Apple Remote Control.
