Apple TV Gen 3 Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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lonus Tech tips and a big awesome
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dislike button go ahead and hit it for the Apple TV Generation 3 so this is the
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first Apple unboxing I've done in quite a while and I am pretty excited to check
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this out because it supports great Apple features like airPlay from my iPhone
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and my iPad onto my Apple uh HD TV no actually
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they don't have a TV that never really materialized I was sort of disappointed
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about that more from a curiosity standpoint than anything else so the Gen
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3 player is the main advantage is airPlay so it does have wireless end
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which allows you to uh mirror the display on your other device whether
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it's a Gen 2 or up iPad or an iPhone 4
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or up which happens to be exactly the iPhone 4 and the iPad that I have and
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that is what I need it for because I need to do a demo using it and mirroring
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from an iOS device so that's why I bought it I'm aware there's no jailbreak
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I'm aware that you can't run a bunch of different apps on it because Apple's
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really locked down what you can run on this device uh through the App Store and
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the jailbreak keeps being promised but hasn't really materialized and all that
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uh good stuff so what has it got it's got a single core A5 processor it
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supports 10 1080p unlike the previous generation uh Apple TV it has support
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for Netflix YouTube Vimeo Hulu actually just got an update with Apple's 6 point
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something. 3 uh iOS update so that's
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that's pretty cool supports Wireless N or100 Ethernet and it was
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$109.99 which makes it more expensive than something like a pivos zos which is
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in a similar um size sort of form factor
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and does offer quite a lot of functionality using XBMC as well as uh
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as Android for for the OS so you can actually use XBMC on top of Android on
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that device or you can use XBMC running natively on that device and this is
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actually supposed to be an Apple TV unboxing not a pivos zos unboxing so I'm
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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
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pivos actually really good guy so anyway
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here's Apple's remote which is much less functional than the uh than the optional
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air mouse remote that's available with the zos here I'm talking about it again
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which has like an onscreen pointer that you can kind of go like this so this is
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just your basic right left up down menu
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uh play and pause it's got a metal finish to it which is nicer than the zos
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one it's actually feels like really good but the disadvantage of something like
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this is it could easily get lost in a couch cushion or uh you know in a
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blanket or in like a butt crack or anything it could actually easily fit in
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any of those things so um you know cleavage so we're going to go ahead and
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take off the protective cover Apple knows that this device is way too glossy
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and is bound to get scratched so they go ahead and cover that up for you it's uh
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constructions very nice I mean I'll do my trademark iPhone size comparison here
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guys not going to be doing that for long going to be switching to the HTC1 really
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really soon for my smartphone I'm already carrying it around and
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installing some apps on it so I'm almost ready to go uh the bottom has a non-slip
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rubber no it's not really non-slip at all is it that's a shame okay well the
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bottom has an Apple logo which makes it higher performance and the top has an
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Apple logo which actually gives it double the performance of other media
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players enabling it to run 1080p which is basically Space Age Technology over
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HDMI so at the back we've got just a simple power in HDMI micro USB which you
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can use to sync to your Mac or your other computer or whatever else an
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optical audio out which I actually do like to see you know what this is
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probably like the number one thing that I was really surprised about on this cuz
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there's some media players that only support HDMI out which is great if you
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have a receiver that supports uh audio over HDMI but if you have an older
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receiver it might still be expensive it might still be a great receiver with
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great amp and all that kind of stuff and it doesn't support audio over HDMI then
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you're pretty much boned so it's nice to have that Optical uh there's your 1000
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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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gen 3 don't forget to subscribe C's Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and
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other computer videos and of of course I hope you noticed in this video that
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we're really stepping up the professionalism here in terms of our
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dress for our unboxings as well as references to butt
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cracks thanks for watching this video was edited on a workstation powered by
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