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Jan 24 2009, 5:55 AM EST (current) zzz123 25 words added
Nov 7 2008, 7:54 AM EST jimpoling 7 words added, 1 word deleted

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It's Not Perfect. What Would You Change About the AppleTV?

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  • Ability to play more codecs by default
  • Larger hard drive
  • External hard drive via USB port
  • External HD-DVD/BluRay Player via USB
  • HD Content on iTunes
  • Buy content directly on Apple TV
  • Subscriptions for music, movies, and TV shows
  • Ability to record shows
  • DVD player capability
  • Compatibility with other media sources
  • Play internet radio stations from iTunes!
  • Respect the Sort Artist and Sort Album fields like iTunes does.
  • Allow you to rate music as it's played.
  • Enable album art slideshow in the streaming scenario too, not just the sync scenario.
  • Cache iTunes libraries when selected under sources so that switching between sync and stream is not as painful for people with large libraries.
  • Movie and TV rentals
  • When scrolling through a large music library indicate the letter upto in a large font (Saves feeling sick when trying to work out where you are up to in the alphabet)
  • Browse photo library by roll date
  • Ability to look at photo folders within many folders. Current version only allows one set of folder depth.
  • Thumbnails for viewing photos and ability to choose start point for slide show.
  • Control TV/HI-FI volume from the ATV remote (programmable like Tivo)
  • Continuous play of music videos / music video playlists
  • Streaming of iPhoto Libraries
  • Stream from network storage, independent of computer running iTunes
  • Option to run iTunes Visualizer (or similar) during music playback
  • Playback of content residing on an external drive connected via USB
  • Enable simultaneous HDMI and Component Output
  • Alarm clock
  • Create playlist directly on AppleTV, or at least the ability to queue up a song without stopping the current one
  • On the GO playlist functionality like ipod
  • Allow creation (via ITunes) and subsequent viewing of Movie Playlists in Apple TV for people with extensive video libraries
  • Make it like a bidirectional slingbox - make the tv connector a pass-through for some other input device with the ability to capture and transmit that input to another similar device (tv in another room) or your computer - or perhaps your iphone. This also eliminates the need for an extra input connector on the TV.
  • Internet browser with wireless USB keyboard and mouse.
  • Simple Music Quiz games
  • A proper power down stand by
  • Correct the always on HDMI signal when on standby which confuses auto source detection on HDMI switch boxes.
  • Boot Linux from CD/DVD drive connected to usb
  • Sugar OLPC on Appletv
  • Hardware decoding of MPEG-2 transport streams, and best-in-class deinterlacing of 1080i so we can instantly play back our EyeTV recordings in true HD quality.
  • Ability to show a list of HD movies available for rental currently.
  • Karaoke... :-)
  • Improve video playback navigation. Perhaps jump-forward, jump-backward increments of 2, 5, 10, and 30 seconds or something similar.
  • Improve GUI with options to include iTunes-created fields for sorting for movies as well as music.
  • Add support for video conferencing (e.g. iChat) and USB video camera. (There is no excuse not to have this on a PC designed for TV's!)