Anyone tried AppleTV with Snow Leopard yet ?

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Anyone tried AppleTV with Snow Leopard yet ?

Very tempted to go and pick up a copy, but not sure I can be bothered with the potential hassle when my main computer is now reasonably stable.

Chances are the upgrade will just work fine, but you never know with these things, and then there's the potential software conflicts and hardware without compatible drivers.

Anyhow it'll be interesting to see what the new streaming/sleep feature adds...

3.0 GHz 8-core 14GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.7), Macbook, Mac Mini, Unstable/Unreilable iMac 20" Core 2 Duo

Posted on Aug 28, 2009 3:01 AM

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Ge0ph

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Aug 28, 2009 8:21 AM in response to Alley_Cat

My copy of Snow Leopard should show up this afternoon and I intend on installing it by night fall.

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Alley_Cat Author

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Aug 28, 2009 9:59 AM in response to Ge0ph

Well, having driven into town and getting frustrated trying to park, I went home and rang the local reseller to ask them to keep me a copy, but they'd already sold out.

Just as well, save's me having to fiddle around with it this weekend.

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rjd1975

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Aug 28, 2009 10:04 AM in response to Alley_Cat

I had used a copy of Snow Leopard developer release and I haven't had any issues with two AppleTV that I have.

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Alley_Cat Author

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Aug 28, 2009 10:28 AM in response to rjd1975

Good to hear.

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DonH49

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Aug 28, 2009 11:46 AM in response to Alley_Cat

ATV works fine with Snow Leopard and the upgrade or the clean install of SL works fine. MactheRipper 2.66 is a no go though.

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Chenks

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Aug 28, 2009 11:56 AM in response to DonH49

Smokerz wrote:
ATV works fine with Snow Leopard and the upgrade or the clean install of SL works fine. MactheRipper 2.66 is a no go though.

2.66 is really old though.
3.0 is the current version (v3.0 R14m)

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asheri

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Aug 28, 2009 6:03 PM in response to Alley_Cat

Works great. Received my copy of Snow this morning, the install only took one hour. I gained a ton of HD space.

To answer your question: My Apple TV is up and running, streaming a movie from the Mac to the kids as I write this. Snow is sweet. Not a super noticeable interface difference, but everything seems to be moving a little faster...

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Aug 28, 2009 8:12 PM in response to asheri

You referenced streaming to ATV from your Mac, do you have any experience streaming from Netflix on your Mac on to your tv. I like Netflix's large library and cheap price - I am more of a watcher rather than acquirer of films - but would also like to have the other media sharing & HD capabilities of ATV.

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Alley_Cat Author

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Aug 28, 2009 10:41 PM in response to JoeW in Milwaukee

AppleTV does not support Netflix.

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Alley_Cat Author

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Aug 28, 2009 10:42 PM in response to Alley_Cat

The new wake on demand faeture of Snow Leopard is getting discussed here, but it doesn't work with all hardware combinations:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=774709

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Aug 29, 2009 9:30 AM in response to Alley_Cat

tv + 10.6 has not been a problem for me.

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Sep 1, 2009 2:12 AM in response to Alley_Cat

I have not been able to sync my music from my iMac to my @TV since I installed Snow Leopard. I can stream music from my iMac, but I cannot "sync" it to where the music is actually copied onto the @TV. Therefore, my iMac always has to be on for me to listen to my music. Anyone else have this issue or tried syncing music to the @TV? Never had a problem before.

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Sep 1, 2009 11:19 AM in response to Community User

Mine syncs and streams with no problems. Have you tried restarting the ATV?

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DBMC

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Sep 1, 2009 6:45 PM in response to Alley_Cat

I have 10.6 I can sync nothing to the ATV. I can buy from the Apple Store, I can access my photos from my web gallery, I can stream my music from Itunes. I can sync nothing, the option to sync does not appear on the summary page. When I attempt to access Iphoto I get a message that there are no photos in my shared library.
I have restarted the ATV several times, I have re-sync it with my computer 4 times. all to no avail.
Any help would be appreciated

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Sep 2, 2009 1:09 AM in response to Craig Baron

Have you installed Snow Leopard? Ever since I installed it, I cannot sync music to my ATV. I never had an issue before. I tried restarting the ATV and computer several times. It goes through the sync, but never copies the playlists I have checked. NOTHING. I can stream music which I prefer not to, since I can't control it from my iPhone as a remote. Any other ideas?????

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