Winston Churchill wrote:
You should be fine updating.
Remember this community is like a hospital, healthy people don't usually attend.
I agree completely, the day will never come that we see posts saying "woke up this morning my Apple TV and my ATV was working just fine. How about you?" But I do appreciate folks frustration when things go wrong following an update. Like any firmware update, It's the inability to step backwards that make it unnerving. However, having browsed this forum, I'd say that were surprisingly few problems so it appears to be a pretty stable update.
That's why my question wasn't "did the update mess u up". But rather, has Apple removed or changed any previously existing features. This does happen from time to time and unfortunately Apple is hardly transparent about this.
For example one update, made it impossible for me to view photos which weren't stored physically inside my iPhoto library on my ATV, necessitating hours of work . An iPad update, removed the ability to view song lyrics.
We all use ATV differently. For me, the most important thing is Video Playlists (something also removed from the iPad without warning - so I remain paranoid) I have well over hundred Excercise vids which I use daily. they are simply unmanageble without playlists. The last update in fact appeared to have removed this feature by disabling it in a pref (buried under audio/video which BY DEFAULT turned them off) fortunately one day I ran into this by accident. I almost wonder if they did this to see if there was any outrage (there was not so in the long run, I fear the worst).
It is for this reason, I wait for a bit before updating, rudely letting others do the testing. I'd like to add the HBOGo feature, but not if it means losing Video Playlists or YouTube.
All this is to say, that I need to post a more limited topic or more likely just call Apple.
