Chenks wrote:
clearly you have a faulty unit.
Though oddly enough Apple themselves don't seem to think so. Since a restore from iTunes fixed it, they feel the hardware is okay and this was a software issue.
however if you had mentioned the specific fault you had previously then maybe you wouldn't have got the response you did.
I haven't had just this one specific fault. I just mentioned it as it was the one that I spent an hour on last night swapping cables around and running tcpdump. I've also had the subtitle problem that many people on these boards have had issues with, a bunch of general freeze-ups, the unauthorized HDMI connection problem once, downloads getting unexpectedly "stuck", losing connection with the iPhone remote app, etc.
The v2 is a new device running new code. There are going to be bugs, and no doubt they will be fixed. In fact, the update a few weeks ago fixed a lot of the problems I was having, but even now it's more flaky than I'd like. I can't even remember the last time my Tivo wedged up - it's been at least a year or two. That's an unfair comparison of course, as the Tivo has been around a lot longer and gone through umpteen rounds of bug fixes. No doubt as the software improves, the Apple TV will get better.
It's not better
yet, though - hence my original post in this thread. The question was "should I or shouldn't I?" My answer was (essentially) "I'm not sure if I'd buy it again". Would I feel differently after a year of updates to smooth out some of the annoyances? Probably.