Marking videos as "watched"

I have the new Apple TV. It works great. However, today I noticed something odd. I have TV shows on my computer in iTunes and both devices use Home Sharing. Everything works great and I watch the TVs from the Computer on the Apple TV. However, when a show concludes, my old Apple TV will mark the show as "Watched" on the computer there by allowing my other devices (iPads, iPods etc) to see the show as watched and not sync them. The new Apple TV does not mark shows as watched.

If I hold down the remote button and get the pop up dialog to manually mark the show as watched, the new Apple TV crashes and reboots.

Anyone else having this issue? I have 2 new apple tvs, in different rooms and I have confirmed that this happens on both. Manually marking a show as "watched" causes the new Apple TV to crash and reboot.

Mac Pro (2009), iPad Wifi, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Oct 23, 2010 8:29 AM

17 replies

Nov 22, 2010 12:12 PM in response to Andrew Mcvinnie

Apple TV Update 4.1 solves this problem. When a show/move is concluded, it is now properly marked as "Watched." Also, holding down the remote button to manually mark a show as "Watched" also works. It no longer reboots the Apple TV.

Hope this problem is solved for everyone. TTFN!

rstec23

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Nov 22, 2010 2:47 PM in response to Andrew Mcvinnie

Does it also marked songs as "played"? The only way I could get it to mark a song as played was to run it through the remote app. If I don't use the remote app anymore, will it mark a song as played simply by playing it through atv?

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Marking videos as "watched"