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dislike button go ahead and hit it for the Apple TV Generation 3 so this is the
first Apple unboxing I've done in quite a while and I am pretty excited to check
this out because it supports great Apple features like airPlay from my iPhone
and my iPad onto my Apple uh HD TV no actually
they don't have a TV that never really materialized I was sort of disappointed
about that more from a curiosity standpoint than anything else so the Gen
3 player is the main advantage is airPlay so it does have wireless end
which allows you to uh mirror the display on your other device whether
it's a Gen 2 or up iPad or an iPhone 4
or up which happens to be exactly the iPhone 4 and the iPad that I have and
that is what I need it for because I need to do a demo using it and mirroring
from an iOS device so that's why I bought it I'm aware there's no jailbreak
I'm aware that you can't run a bunch of different apps on it because Apple's
really locked down what you can run on this device uh through the App Store and
the jailbreak keeps being promised but hasn't really materialized and all that
uh good stuff so what has it got it's got a single core A5 processor it
supports 10 1080p unlike the previous generation uh Apple TV it has support
for Netflix YouTube Vimeo Hulu actually just got an update with Apple's 6 point
something. 3 uh iOS update so that's
that's pretty cool supports Wireless N or100 Ethernet and it was
$109.99 which makes it more expensive than something like a pivos zos which is
in a similar um size sort of form factor
and does offer quite a lot of functionality using XBMC as well as uh
as Android for for the OS so you can actually use XBMC on top of Android on
that device or you can use XBMC running natively on that device and this is
actually supposed to be an Apple TV unboxing not a pivos zos unboxing so I'm
not going to talk about it too much more but you should check it out if you haven't already I know the guy who runs
pivos actually really good guy so anyway
here's Apple's remote which is much less functional than the uh than the optional
air mouse remote that's available with the zos here I'm talking about it again
which has like an onscreen pointer that you can kind of go like this so this is
just your basic right left up down menu
uh play and pause it's got a metal finish to it which is nicer than the zos
one it's actually feels like really good but the disadvantage of something like
this is it could easily get lost in a couch cushion or uh you know in a
blanket or in like a butt crack or anything it could actually easily fit in
any of those things so um you know cleavage so we're going to go ahead and
take off the protective cover Apple knows that this device is way too glossy
and is bound to get scratched so they go ahead and cover that up for you it's uh
constructions very nice I mean I'll do my trademark iPhone size comparison here
guys not going to be doing that for long going to be switching to the HTC1 really
really soon for my smartphone I'm already carrying it around and
installing some apps on it so I'm almost ready to go uh the bottom has a non-slip
rubber no it's not really non-slip at all is it that's a shame okay well the
bottom has an Apple logo which makes it higher performance and the top has an
Apple logo which actually gives it double the performance of other media
players enabling it to run 1080p which is basically Space Age Technology over
HDMI so at the back we've got just a simple power in HDMI micro USB which you
can use to sync to your Mac or your other computer or whatever else an
optical audio out which I actually do like to see you know what this is
probably like the number one thing that I was really surprised about on this cuz
there's some media players that only support HDMI out which is great if you
have a receiver that supports uh audio over HDMI but if you have an older
receiver it might still be expensive it might still be a great receiver with
great amp and all that kind of stuff and it doesn't support audio over HDMI then
you're pretty much boned so it's nice to have that Optical uh there's your 1000
Ethernet and I think that's pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Apple TV
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