APPLE TV Great but TED talks won't play anymore

My wife and I have been thoroughly enjoying the TED talks. So much so we bought AppleTv (1st generation) for the kitchen just to watch them while we cook. Recently some of the newer episodes won't play. In fact they actually cause my AppleTV to lock up which is only resolved by unplugging the AppleTV and restarting.
This is very frustrating.
If I open the files in Quictime and look at the specs the only difference I can see appears to be resolution specs: the old resolution was 850x480, where the newer talks are 853 or 854 x480. Is this what is screwing them up? I don't know...but I sure wish they'd fix the darn things.

applefish wrote:
Actually..I wasn't blaming Apple...apologies if it felt that way I didn't mean that. Of course, there was always a chance it DID have something to do with them.
But I will say if they're not conforming to Apple specs I would have expected either that Apple would have told them so on their end or, at the very least, they would like to hear from their customers there was an issue so they could pass it along and get them to shape up a bit.
that said..I have dropped them a line about this. But I believe on "attacking" on two fronts.
anyone can add any podcast to the library. the appletv gives access to the complete podcast library and not specifically just appletv compatible podcasts.
apple has no input into what people produce and make available.

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