Apple TV2 Dark movies

I just buy and ATV2 and have and "old" plasma TV with no hdmi but connect trough VGA and it´s right i see 720i correct in my tv, colors too but in movies i see is soo dark, shadows go to black. I try rgb low, high, modes but in low is even worst. I read than my atv could detect my TV (because VGA port) is a pc monitor and send a 0-255 signal and not 16-235 color space (TV). How can try other mode?
The solution another TV but my plasma is ok

Sorry; I don't understand your message. Are you talking about the restore option? And does your message imply that the update that makes Airplay possible will destroy the download capability?
I am seeing this result most of the time, but not every single time. Still...essentially unusable at the moment; I have the deluxe Comcast package that is otherwise fine. Apple...if you're reading this....this is a "will return the **** useless product" issue.

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Finally Sweden Apple released Apple TV2 and movies.

But, the movies didnot include subtitles. Even if we are in dvd region 2. That was dissapointing.
Further Appletv2 worked for 15 minutes.
I have iMac with updated Lion, an updated itune.
Appletv updated.
Time capsule
iPhone and iPad with ios5.
Found the streaming shut off depedent on time capsule. Had to enter port 123 at shsring on time capsule.
This is crap....no data re This re appletv and itune 10.5.
Films on swedish itune ...no subtitles...i am really dissapointed

After having audio background noise so loud you cannot hear the audio on Apple TV using iTunes movies and Netflix television programs, but no noise problem on Netflix movies or on Apple TV iTunes movie previews, Apple Care solved the problem by telling me to go to "settings" in the menu, select "audio and video", then select "dolby". Turn "dolby" to off. For me, this not only solved all noise problems, but also enabled the closed captioning on the Netflix movies, which were not showing before!!! You must be sure closed captioning is enabled in the "settings" section in the Apple TV menu, and the movie must be closed captioned (noted on the preview page for all movies, etc.) - for ITunes movies or Netflix. Netflix is closed captioned just by turning off the dolby on the Apple TV. Netflix doesn't seem to know this solution. Apple Care is finding that the dolby fix also seems to fix a "no audio" problem.

How do I Play videos from external hard drive on Apple TV2? Can I just move the iTunes Library to the External Hard Drive?

I have several HD videos stored on an external hard drive and would like to bring them into iTunes and play them via iTunes on my Apple TV2, but I am not sure how to go about it. I don't want to store the movies on my iMac hard drive because it would eat up to much space...so do I just move the iTunes Library to the external hard drive? And, if so...will the Apple TV2 find the iTunes Library on the external hard drive? Thanks for any help anyone can suggest.

iTunes content on an external drive isn't a problem.
The simplest method is to just move your library to an external drive.
If you wanted to keep just movies on an external drive, that's a little more difficult. You'd need to put the movies where you want them to reside on the external drive and add drag and drop them onto iTunes while holding down the option key. Obviously any movies already in iTunes would need moving from their current location and removing from iTunes first.

Apple tv2 movie rental cache drops off and won't finish downloading (not related to internet connection)

I'm having an issue with my apple tv2 when renting movies. This isn't with home-sharing but just renting movies only with the apple tv. We've done this with 10 or so movies up until the issue so it has worked in the past.
What happens is that the movie downloads to a certain point and then the cache bar goes immediately to the end of the progress bar like the whole movie is downloaded. The movie will play to a certain point, say the 9 minute mark, and then the picture just freezes with no more sound but the progress bar tracker continues along like it's still playing. This has happened on multiple movies now.
We've spoken to support about this and tried a variety of troubleshooting ideas. Unplugged, reset, restored, updated firmware, etc. with no luck. The download will restart but freezes at the exact second that it did before while showing that the cached download is complete. We've checked the internet connection with other devices and there's no connection problem at all. Reset the router as well for good measure but no change.
I know we can try renting and downloading on the computer first and then sharing with the apple tv but I would prefer to know why it's not working on the apple tv itself.
Any ideas would be great.
Thanks

Yeah, that's what we thought too so we got a refund (by using the report a problem link and explaining what happened) and tried a different movie with the same result. Used the link again after the second movie didn't work and went through pretty much the same troubleshooting steps with them.
Basically the only solution offered so far has been to take it to a licensed apple retailer for them to take a look.

Movie Rental iTunes Store - Apple TV2

1. When you go to rent a movie and get notice that it will take 1-2 hours before you can view the movie, when the movie is ready for viewing how long does it hold before you have to start over?
2. If you have rented a movie but missed the view window on your Apple TV2 is there any way you can download that rented movie to your computer, so you can view it on home sharing from your computer next time?

1. It should remain ready for viewing until you are ready to watch it, unless you navigate to something else or turn the Apple Tv off.
2. If you want rentals to download to the computer, you need to rent them from the computer.

Streaming movie rented in iTunes to Apple TV2

Hi
I have a home network set up, and from our iMac stream movies, music etc to Apple TV2. Wireless router is Airport Extreme, with a Time Capsule acting as an extender. All hardware is running the latest version of software. Sharing of movies and music, photos from the mac's library is working flawlessly, but I cannot get movies rented from iTunes store to stream to the Apple TV. In iTunes on the mac Rentals is a seperate folder in the library to movies I have copied to the iTunes library. I cannot see the rented movie in my shared library on ATV2 or a section for rentals. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

littletag wrote:
In Computers - "Rentals" is not a choice
Then you did not rent the movie on the AppleTV.

I have a macbook pro and apple tv2. My problem is that my hard drive is full. What is my best option to empty movies off of my macbook but still access them through atv2?

I have a macbook pro and apple tv2. My problem is that my hard drive is full. What is my best option to empty movies off of my macbook but still access them through atv2?

ok. I do have a time capsule but if I move itunes on to it how do I sync my ipods and iphone? Or can I have my Itunes account on both and just move my movies to the time capsule?

Apple tv2 is taking too long to load movies

My apple tv2 is taking too long to load movies, it displays a message saying it needs 200 minutes or more, what about you guys?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
The first thing to check would be your internet download speed, you can do this at www.speedtest.net.
1080p HD movies require a recommended speed of 8 Mbps, 720p HD movies require a recommended speed of 6 Mbps, while SD movies require a recommended speed of 2.5 Mbps.

Can I play a movie on my iMac and watch it through my Apple TV2?

I want to steam a movie on my iMac upstairs and watch it downstairs on my Apple TV

If the Movie is in itunes and in a compatible format yes - either selecting on AppleTV under Computers>iTunes library>movies or playing in iTunes and using AppleTV as an Airplay destination.
If you mean an inserted DVD or from a non-itunes app then no.

Apple TV2 Home Sharing Drop Out after 25mins of playback

iTunes: 10.5
Mac 10.6.8
Apple TV2 - 4.4.2
Home Sharing a Libary
Everything wired ethernet
After I watch a movie - let's say Dark Knight from the shared itunes Libary using Home Sharing at about 25 minutes the movie will stop and the Apple TV goes back to the main menu screen. I can then browse to the shared library under computers and start watching it again. After about 25 minutes or so it will do the drop back to the menus.
What gives? Until the 4.4.2 update I could watch anything for hours. It is also dropping back to the main menus when playing songs after 3-4 songs.
I've restarted all the network and t

I too upgraded to all the latest software (iTunes 10.2.1, iOS 4.2 on my Apple TV2) and am now experiencing drop-outs on home sharing every 10 minutes or so.
I can force Apple TV to re-recognise iTunes by quitting iTunes and then reloading. I have however noticed that my iTunes library will intermittently return to the Apple TV "Computers" menu.
Unlike others who have fixed the problem by merely disconnecting a wired ethernet link, I am running over wireless ('N' exclusively - is this anything to do with the problem??) This problem is quite irritating since my Apple TV/iTunes worked pretty well before the recent upgrades ...

Apple TV2 slow to play

I hate to add to this chorus of compaints regarding the Apple TV2, but I too just purchased an Apple TV2 for Christmas. All my movies are already loaded on my Mac Pro and exist in iTunes. It is not a problem with downloading or streaming from Apple. They play fine on the MacPro. The regular definition movies play almost instantly on my Apple TV2.
The Problem is that I cannot get it to play an HD movie. I purchased my first HD movie from the iTunes store last night. It downloaded from the iTunes store to my Mac Pro in approximately 20 minutes along with what appears as a regular definition version of the movie and "extras". I have been watching over 20 minutes of spinning beachballs waiting for it to begin playing on the Apple TV2. The Airport Utility says that Apple TV2 connection to my Airport Extreme is "Excellent" with a data rate of 65 MB/s, an RSSI (whatever that is) of -49, and a Mode of 802.11 b/g/n
Can anyone help? Otherwise this device is useless for me to watch HD video. My Mac Pro is running the latest version of Snow Leapord (10.6.8) and all other software is up to date with the latest version.
Is there a reset that I need to push? Anything?

Just got off the phone with Apple Support. There procedure was the following:
1. Go to the Apple TV, select settings, general and scroll down to reset.
2. Select reset and then select reset all
Apple TV will go through a restart after the reset and you will have to select your network then log in with your network or Airport Express password. You will then have to turn on home sharing and It will then ask you for your Apple ID for the iTunes store and then the password. At this point you may not see your library, because the Apple TV wants you to turn on home sharing on your home computer that is hosting the movie library. Turn off home sharing on that computer, restart iTunes and turn on home sharing again. After this is done you should be able to see you library listed under the computer.
After going through these steps, when I select an HD movie from my iTunes library the movie comes up after about a 5 second delay.
Hope this helps! I am back up for business.

Windows Vista iTunes Home Share Not showing up on Apple tv2 through LAN

I have 2 new Apple TV's and I'm having the same problem on both, so I think it is an issue with my network or the Vista Laptop. I'm hoping for helpful suggestions here.
My setup:
2 Apple TV2's connected with wifi
D-Link DIR655 Router
MacbookPro, iPad, And iPhones all connected with wifi.
iTunes Home Sharing and Airplay all work fine with all of the above.
The Problem:
I have an old Vista Laptop I want to use as an iTunes Server to store movies on and such, for use on the Apple TV's.
If I connect the laptop to the network with wifi the Apple tv's find the Vista iTunes Homeshare just fine. But when I connect the laptop via Lan Wire to the router the Apple tv's don't seem to find the laptop. This is a problem because i want to just connect it wired and tuck the laptop away in a closet, so it is not a waste of wifi spectrum, but no joy so far. I have checked firewalls and things like that but no luck. Any ideas out there?

I was also having this problem but in my case it was not caused by the D Link router. My problem was caused by mcafee firewall. To get itunes sharing to work I needed to add an itunes firewall/port rule to enable TCP=3689 UDP=5353 and enable this for ALL PCs. Setting this for PCs in Home/Work networks did not work.

I want to relocate my iTunes library on a NAS drive and stream to apple tv2 and DLNA tbs around the house is this possible and if so which is the best NAS drive to buy???

I want to relocate my iTunes library on a NAS drive and stream to apple tv2 and DLNA tbs around the house is this possible and if so which is the best NAS drive to buy???

ged2001 wrote:
I want to relocate my iTunes library on a NAS drive and stream to apple tv2 and DLNA TV's around the house is this possible and if so which is the best NAS drive to buy???
i don't have any experience with DLNA TV's but i recently moved my iTunes library to a NAS. streaming content to airport express remote speakers and TV2 works great. however, i have all my gear hardwired to my time capsule (except the airport express) so i'm not sure how well streaming e.g. HD movies to TV over wifi works.
i have a Synology DiskStation 411j and am very happy with it.

Im realy getting tired of this.Apple tv2 keeps loosing my password.

About every 3 or 4 days I have to re-enter my password because apple tv2 keeps forgetting it even after I tell it to remember it.This is becoming very annoying as my password is quite long.Ever since version 4.3 this has happened,never before.All of my other devices have no problem remembering passwords just this little black box.Thanks apple.My logitec keyboard used to work with itunes but after the latest update that dont work anymore either,once again thanks apple.I would rather wait longer for an update that works than get one fast that dont work right.To sum things up I have let apple know about this but have received no responce back what so ever.I have also re-downloaded the new software version 4.3 because the movie section went missing all on its own,nice and still have problems.Funny thing is I own a Thomas Edison gramaphone that is over 100 years old and it still works just like it was new,I think the folks at apple could learn a thing or two from him.So my question is has anybody had this problem and is there a fix for it.Like I said I contacted apple and got no responce so that option is out for me.Having spent thousands of dollars on apple products over the years I am rapidly loosing faith in the company,theyre happy to take my money then leave me high and dry.Thanks apple.

Thanks for the reply vazandrew,the password is my itunes store one.Im not sure how it could be a network issue because it only started after the latest update.Also my son has the exact same router and setup as me and he has not had any issues,he lives next door and we are on the same internet provider.His password is always rememberd and mine is only rememberd for a few days then it looses it.I have also downloaded the latest firmware update for my mouse and keyboard and that has not helped either.I wish apple would do more testing before releasing theyre updates.I guess its time to change my password to something with as few characters as possable since I have to keep entering it.Thanks again .......Mike

Apple TV2 is not working property

Hi Guys.
I have just two weeks with my apple TV 2 and it drives me crazy.
I have my apple TV2 connected via wi-fi with a Base Station Apple Router. When I'm trying to watch some movies (HD) it worked perfect but in many cases it doesn't, and some, times gives me an error that suggest that I have to try to connect to my Mac later.
I made all the updates: for my Itunes, my Mac, the Base Station and the Apple TV2. Other thing that I tried was connect my Apple TV directly to my Base Station and nothing.
Can anybody tell me what to do? Is there a specific configuration that could be recommended for de Base Station and de AppTV2?
Regards,

Ok... this is the answer for the moment!!!
Everyone has the same problem as I do. The only way I found to solve it was to restart my "Base Station" router and then remake the wireless router connection with the Apple TV 2.
It's a shame, but in my case it worked. I guess that would be the procedure from de moment until APPLE make some important update to the software of the APPLE tv.

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