Apple TV in Hong Kong

content availability is restricted to where your itunes store account is set to (and is locked by billing address).

TV show rentals are only available to US customers at the moment.
movies are available but vary depending on what itunes store location you have.

What I want to know is, where can we buy one in Hong Kong without paying the excessive 40% of the product price for international shipping we have to pay if we buy on eBay?

Although I have a US iTunes account, the AirPlay streaming feature alone is quite enough to justify the price of this product for use in other markets where rentals may not yet be available. I wish Apple would understand this and release the **** thing here.

Actually, I'm hoping that after iOS 4.2 is released, we might start seeing some grey market imports.

Benton R. Olmsted wrote:
What I want to know is, where can we buy one in Hong Kong without paying the excessive 40% of the product price for international shipping we have to pay if we buy on eBay?

are they not available in the apple retail store in China ?

Since the Apple TV doesn't include any sort of tuner, TV signal type doesn't matter at all. It's all output via HDMI. Likewise, every digital appliance these days is sold with a switching power supply, so mains input doesn't matter either. The only thing is plug type, and I'm sure everybody has plenty of extra UK plug to "figure 8" plug cables lying around, and if they don't they can get one for HK$10.

So it comes down to price. An Apple TV in the States costs $99, and it's possible to get one without paying sales tax. An Apple TV in the UK costs £99!! That's a markup of about 60%.

I think if you're buying one in the UK you're being "pound foolish", to twist an idiom.

True, not too sure about the power switching though. Where? How?

Although, if I had to buy now I'd buy from the UK.

Personally, I'm waiting for the HK version as the iPad is a great price in HK.

Hi,

I had been using the US Apple TV 2 in Hong Kong for quite a few weeks now, mostly stream rented or purchased video from my Mac. Only problem is since the latest firmware update on the apple TV 2, is been a bit unstable, it just quits randomly during the movie playback. Last night must had stopped 10 times on one of my rented movies. Been working well before that.

Although I live in Hong Kong (NOT part of the Mainland China Market) the new Apple TV is not available in either market (you do know these are separate governments and separate markets, right?).

If you get one from another country then try UK if you can.

I have a UK game console and it works fine since they use the same electricity and tv signals.

Any update on a release date for AppleTV in HK?

Has there been any update regarding this? Why has apple stopped selling apple tv in HK anyway?

Any idea if they are going to release the new version anytime soon?