tgundo2003

Ok- I rolled back to 5.0.2 and its all working well now. We'll just ignore the updates for a while... Here is a good site that has all the firmware revs: iClarified - AppleTV - AppleTV Firmware Download Locations On a Mac running iTunes you hook the Apple TV via USB and hold down the option button while clicking restore. It will bring up a finder window that you use to chose what file to restore to. Thanks for the replies! Tom

Remote app is up to date. iTunes is up to date. I need a micro USB cable to connect to the ATV I guess....

Ok- So yesterday I took delivery of three new Apple TV's to add in our showroom. We already use them in a few places for demo, makes a great content delivery system paired up with the remote app, have never had an issue with them. Took ATV #1 out of the box, Configured it, did the software update. Started testing it, and every few songs the remote app loses connection to it. Sometimes it will fail to play a selection. Tried every configuration I could come up with, still no joy. Keeps losing connection to the remote app. So this morning I took the new ATV #2 out of the box, did all the same setup, except I did not update the software. Finished the config, went to test, worked flawlessly. Just as good as the others in the showroom. Took out ATV #1 again, did a restore and re-configured. Still bad. I needed to get a conclusion, so I took ATV #2 which was working perfect, and did the software update. Upon completion, went to use, now it has the same problems as #1. I have #3 sitting here, and I am going to get it out and not update it. I'm thinking I need to take #1 & 2 back to the Apple Store to exchange.... Anyone else have this issue? The other Apple TV's I have in the showroom have not been updated for some time so thats likely why they still work. I see this type of issue out there in some of the fourms, but no conclusive resluts or fixes..... Thanks! Tom

It's a jitter issue with the AE. Seems to also be more linked to devices using Sabre DAC's, but may affect others as well. ATV is the way to go.

From what I understand it just ended up being a defective unit. We bought a new one here and it worked flawlessly no matter what config/gear combo we tried it with.

Just a for what it's worth, had David and Jonathan from Peachtree in here last Thursday for an event, and David had the new AE, but it was not a good expierence! It would not stream any res without occasional hiccups. It did not seem to be signal related, we were in the same room with it, and it did the same thing weather we were in the room or 100' away. Tried just about every network config I could come up with to no avail, it just kept breaking up. Maybe he had a bad one, but we ran out of time trying to get it to go. Threw an ATV in it's place and it streamed flawlessly. It was up to date on FW....dunno. It's too new, so there is not much feedback out there on the fourms, but we had a bad time for sure. Anyone else have a similar issue?

I am wondering what the group is feeling about the fairly strong movement out there saying 16 bit 44.1 is more than enough to resolve human hearing, and any of the higher resolution formats are a waste of time. I have been reading up on this position and the general concensus of the movement is that Nyquist proves mathmatecially that 16/44.1 is all we need, and then there are a few double blind studies of "studio engineers" that come up about 50/50 if they could tell the diference between a Red Book recording at 16/44.1 and at a higher resolution, basically meaning they were guessing because they couldn't tell the difference. I spent a fair share of time on Nyquist back in college and at one time could work thru the math, and yes it does prove that in theory 16/44.1 is all that is needed for human hearing. However, I have a hard time leaving this as "more than enough" since we still do not have a total understanding of how human hearing works (besides the mechanics of the inner ear). Perhaps the part the Nyquist Theory misses is "human perception" as opposed to "human hearing" which extends the range of frequencies and dynamic range needed for more accurate perception, which the higher resolutions are able to resolve better. There's a loaded statement Any takers?