LOADING . . . Your movie will be ready to watch in 3 hr and 14 mins
OK, I'm a fan of Apple TV. Bought the new one to replace an old Roku box that I sold.
Here's the problem: HD stuff is crazy slow to load. And when it's loaded, it doesn't stay loaded.
Thursday night I rented an HD movie and clicked Watch. I got the msg in the title of this post, or something very similar.
Thirty minutes later I got a message saying it was loaded and ready to watch but by that time we'd already moved on to another movie (in standard def).
So Friday night I clicked on the movie that had loaded the previous night, assuming it would still be loaded and ready to play.
No luck. Went back to the same msg in the title of post.
This is ridiculous, seems to me. Can someone explain what is happening? My wireless setup is Comcast high speed (8Mps), a Motorola SBG900 cable modem and wireless router. I get a fine connection on Netflix, VUDU, etc. thru my LG BlueRay player, and through the Apple TV in SDef. The connection, tested from Apple TV always shows only 1 bar unlit.
A couple additional questions: when you LOAD an HD movie, what actually happens? Is there memory on the Apply TV box to store the movie? Is it stored elsewhere (like on one of the computers on the network)? Are we really expected to take 30 minutes to an hour or more to download an HD movie we want to watch?
Here's the problem: HD stuff is crazy slow to load. And when it's loaded, it doesn't stay loaded.
Thursday night I rented an HD movie and clicked Watch. I got the msg in the title of this post, or something very similar.
Thirty minutes later I got a message saying it was loaded and ready to watch but by that time we'd already moved on to another movie (in standard def).
So Friday night I clicked on the movie that had loaded the previous night, assuming it would still be loaded and ready to play.
No luck. Went back to the same msg in the title of post.
This is ridiculous, seems to me. Can someone explain what is happening? My wireless setup is Comcast high speed (8Mps), a Motorola SBG900 cable modem and wireless router. I get a fine connection on Netflix, VUDU, etc. thru my LG BlueRay player, and through the Apple TV in SDef. The connection, tested from Apple TV always shows only 1 bar unlit.
A couple additional questions: when you LOAD an HD movie, what actually happens? Is there memory on the Apply TV box to store the movie? Is it stored elsewhere (like on one of the computers on the network)? Are we really expected to take 30 minutes to an hour or more to download an HD movie we want to watch?
24" iMac Alum 2.66 GHz, 11.6" Macbook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.5), Fusion, Win 7
