Is an Apple TV right for me?

I have a Macbook Pro, an iPad 1, an iPhone 4, and an iPod touch 1st generation. I recently saw advertisements for iOS 5 that showed some cool things with the Apple TV and I'm wondering if it is something I'll use.
I noticed I have to purchase a cord first thing. If that's the case, why don't they include the cord with the TV? Will it work at all without it?
I watched the Apple TV video, and it looks to me like after $99 for the TV, you have to pay every time you use it. For example, NCIS comes on Tuesday nights, but I have class. The Apple TV advertises that I can watch the show the next day, however it will cost me $.99. I can watch it for free next day with Comcast OnDemand, so why does Apple charge? I guess what I'm wondering is what does the Apple TV do for $99, without additional fees?
The airplay looks very cool, but I would like some more details on how that works. Will it stream anything from my iPad and/or iPhone? How about my Macbook Pro?
I am hardcore team Apple and love the products, just don't want to spend money on something I won't use. Thanks for any/all help!

There is a vast range of quality and lengths to HDMI cables, it wouldn't really be possible to include a cable that would cover everyone's wants or requirements.
There is a certain amount of free content available in addition to the paid content you mention, tv shows are all ad free which likely isn't the case with other free services, you can of course watch them whenever you want.
AirPlay doesn't work with all content but the number of websites and apps that support it are growing, essentially it works by playing content on your iPad/iPhone etc, tapping a button which switches the content to be played on your TV screen.

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Is the Apple TV right for me?

Have recently converted a large CD colection to itunes for use on ipod. Would like to stream to my rotel component stereo system. Also have an older Sony Trinitron TV. Not sure if I can hook both the TV and stereo to the apple TV system. Can I do this?

Hard to say whether Apple TV is right for you.
ATV is mostly a TV system -- to that end it's excellent. It will play iTunes files, as long as you have a monitor hooked up to control that process. If your older TV has component video in then you could use that. It has the advantage of displaying info about the song as it is playing on the TV -- it has the disadvantage of requiring that TV interface and not being as flexible in how it plays music.
Another alternative you might want to explore is getting the Airport Express -- that can stream your iTunes from your computer to your stereo. In that case you control the playback from the computer, which might or might not seem better to you (it is to me, but I play almost exclusively from playlists -- when I have company coming over I put on the Jazz playlist, for example, and we listen to the music in the living room or out on the lanai). It has the advantage of being extremely flexible in how it plays (anything iTunes can do so can it play) and the disadvantage of not seeing info about the song as it plays.
Just things for you to consider.

I'm Shopping ... Is Apple TV Right For Me?

I'm looking for the best way to play my iTunes library through my home theatre. My computer is in my office and the TV / Home Theatre is in the living room. I have a WIFI setup.
I'm not particularly interested in the TV and Video stuff.
Seems to me combining my computer, my iTunes, my WIFI, my home theatre, my iPod Touch (as a remote) and an Apple TV might be a good solution.
A few questions -- what do I have to do with my computer? I assume it has to be on; does it have to be "awake?"; if I'm playing a song from my iTunes library through the Apple TV can I play other songs on my computer? ...
What else should I think about?
Any comments and experience would be much appreciated.
Thanks

@ capaho
I have followed your comments with great interest over the past weeks as I am considering changing from my trusty ATV to the new Mini.
My problem is you keep slating the ATV for what it doesnt do highlighting everyhting the Mini can do but I think you are missing one big point.........
I was about to pull the trigger on the new Mini last weekend, downloaded Plex for my iMac to try it out etc and went to rent a film from the iTunes store to see how easy Frontrow was etc.
To my DISGUST a lot of the films are NOT available in HD through the iTunes store alone, you HAVE to have an ATV or iPad to rent certain films in HD!
So, for an aging box that is being slated all over this forum by yourself and a few other respected members it seems the new Mini is the inferior product in this case!
Until Apple sort this issue out (which the mind boggles why it even exists???) I will not be forking out £650 of my children's inheritance to buy the inferior Mini.
So, on that note Apple, I'm afraid I'm out....................
(excuse the Dragon's Den quote!lol)

If you registrate one Apple ID for each iPhone/iPad, you'll get 5GB on iCloud for each Apple ID, right? I have two iPhones and one iPad with the same Apple ID, why can't I get 5 GB fo each of them?

If you registrate one Apple ID for each iPhone/iPad, you'll get 5GB on iCloud for each Apple ID, right? I have two iPhones and one iPad with the same Apple ID, why can't I get 5 GB fo each of them?

Actually, everyone missed one point, when a device is priced, the cost of icloud storage space for that device is also included in it that is why they are able to give you 5gb each for each user ID, in nutshell there is nothing free coming with apple device purchase, it is paid for. What they are trying by giving only 5gb per user ID irrespective of the number of devices used is pure broadlight looting, they take money from you when you buy each device and give you nothing, This is a case of goods and services bought but not fully deliverd ie apple can be suied for discreminatory treatment towards it's users. I wonder why no one tried this yet in America where everyone sue everyone for petty things..... there is no one to take up this issue? . if tim got any love for the guys who shell out money for the devices his company makes, he should be implimenting this as priority before someone wake up from sleep and sue him.

How can i increase the font size on Safari and email so my mother who is legally blind in left eye, right eye 50% vision. r there any apple product specifically for the blind?

how can i increase the font size on Safari and email so my mother who is legally blind in left eye, right eye 50% vision. r there any apple product specifically for the blind?

From the Safari menu bar click View > Zoom In or press Command + on the keyboard to increase the size of the page.
If that doesn't help, open System Preferences > Accessibilty > Settings then select Zoom on the left.
You can also increase the resolution on the dislplay. System Preferences > Displays > Display > Scaled
You can also get help by posting in the Apple Support Communities > Vision forum here.

Hey I don't know if I'm in the right place but i would just like to give apple an idea for there next big upgrade. I would like to sugest "Liger" as a new operating software :)

Hey I don't know if I'm in the right place but i would just like to give apple an idea for there next big upgrade. I would like to sugest "Liger" as a new operating software>

Well, I think they've boxed themselves in so that the next revision will have to be called Aslan. (ok, maybe that joke's too subtle, so I'll link it)

Hi, I have a problem with getting my apple Id working for me. It's been 2 months since it happened and Apple failed to act. I can tell my story proerly, but am not sure, you guys can help, so I just copy my message to them today, I am trying to get it acr

Hi, I have a problem with getting my apple Id working for me. It's been 2 months since it happened and Apple failed to act. I can tell my story proerly, but am not sure, you guys can help, so I just copy my message to them today, I am trying to get it across all the places around to pay their attention. This is a desperate move, so if you are not the right people to help me to get my message accross, may be you can advise where can I go.
Thank you, and sorry for the language.
Vitas Dijokas
I am sorry to say that, but your security makes my life miserable – it’s been 2 months since my Apple ID account got stuck, and since then I cannot update 37 applications (to date), i.e. most of my applications. Half of them I bought. I also paid for iCloud, and it is not working. I paid money and I am stuck with old applications and no iCloud. Your security *****. Your service ***** too. It took your service 1 month to finally understand why this happened to me, and it took me tens of emails to you and 3 hours of telephone conversation to find out the reason for my problem. And the problem is still not fixed. NOT FIXED. You just leave your customer – the one who paid you money and spent so much time with you trying to help you help me – and nothing. You tell me: “Vitas, Stick your stinky iphone in your *** and enjoy life, we do not care!” *************.
It is ******* outrageous, and you should know that, guys. Get into the ******* database and correct the bug. Get someone in the partners-telephone carriers company (it is Orange as carreer and Cellcom as seller of the phone) authorized to Identify me in personal encounter in one of the branches in Israel (where I live) and make sure it is really me, and get the ******* system accept my password and let me use my phone.
Otherwise **** off. None of my friends will get my advise to buy an iphone or any of apple products. And I think you should be very attentive to cases like this, guys. Do your work for the money we pay, or disappear. There are many others eager to take your place, and if the problem is not fixed I will eventually go to the others. My patience is lost, and as soon as I can afford another phone I will change it. AND I WILL TRY TO GIVE BAAAAAD PUBLICITY TO APPLE – I am threatening here, so ACT NOW.
Vitas Dijokas

Well, it seems waiting is not my strong suit..! I renamed a javascript file called recovery to sessionstore. This file was in the folder sessionstore-backups I had copied from mozilla 3 days ago, when my tabs were still in place. I replaced the sessionstore in mozilla's default folder with the renamed file and then started mozilla. And the tabs reappeared as they were 3 days ago!
So there goes the tab problem. But again when I started mozilla the window saying "a script has stopped responding" appeared, this time the script being: chrome//browser/contenttabbrowser.xml2542
If someone knows how to fix this and make firefox launch normally, please reply! Thank you

HT204053 We have apple computer and set up 1 apple id and for music on iPods. Now we have 3 apple phones and want to share the music but keep our contacts separate. what should we do.

We started with an apple computer and set up 1 apple id and for music on iPods. Now we have 3 apple phones and want to share the music but keep our contacts separate. what should we do? Right now we have the same apple id on the PC, ipodtouch, ipod, and 3 phones. They said make seperate clouds?

Hello there MizzouTrojan,
If I understand correctly you want all 6 devices to have access to a single calendar that each device gets notifications for and can edit. You can do that with an private iCloud shared calendar. First sign into www.icloud.com and use these steps from the following article to share a calendar:
iCloud: Share a calendar with others
Share a calendar privately
Click the Share button to the right of the calendar name in the sidebar, then select Private Calendar.
Note: You can also share the same calendar publicly. For instructions, see the next task, “Share a calendar publicly.”
Type the invitee’s email address in the Add Person field and press Return.
Click the pop-up menu with the invitee’s name and choose access privileges (View & Edit or View Only).
For each person you want to share the calendar with, repeat steps 2 and 3.
When you’ve invited everyone and set their privileges, click OK.
Invitation emails are sent from your iCloud email address to the participants you specified.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
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How do i set up facetime and the messaging app on my daughters ipod touch? she is 9 and can not have an apple i.d. for purchases etc. i only want to message her from my i phone!

What i need the answer to is how to get an apple i.d.for my daughter without an email address or anything else, as she is only 9 and does not need, nor can she legally have, an i tunes account. I have got face time working but have done it with my other email address and have gone round so many houses to achieve it the passwords etc are a mystery now. is there a place where i can view what is linked to what, and generally do some house keeping and tidy up the mess i have created attempting to enable the features of her i pod touch? I am trying to keep my child from the full force of the internet and therefore have found the easiest course of action to leave everything switched off and am starting to wish i had bought a shuffle instead, She is right to question why she has the device when she can not use it to it's capacity. But safely. And i am astonished that the help is so difficult to obtain quickly and easily, surely other responsible parents have had to do the same thing?

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If the iPhone has iOS 6, you can only uncheck your phone number on the iPod that is in Settings>Messages>Send And Receive. To delete yo have to create a new iTunes account not associated with the phone.
What do yo mean by "is there a place where i can view what is linked to what, "?

Apple is right to let Aperture go

After at first being a little surprised at Aperture’s demise it occurred to me that Apple is right to do this. Continuing to develop an app with small market share on an operating system with small market share makes little sense. It is better for them to admit defeat and try something better then continuing to go down the wrong path.
The technology landscape has changed a lot since 2005 when Aperture 1.0 came out. There are different ways to access files such as sandboxing and iCloud drive. These technologies will become an important way to get photos between a Mac and an iOS device. Tagging files in Aperture was helpful but relying on the tagging system built into the OS would be a much better solution (someone else just mentioned this recently and I strongly agree.) If a new pro photo app made it’s tags available to the Finder and Spotlight those tags should show up along side similarly tagged files that were created in other programs.
Also Aperture’s competition from Adobe is fundamentally flawed. An all new pro app could address the problems that Adobe’s photography apps have. Anyone who has used Adobe’s solutions should be well aware of their shortcomings.
1. Photoshop, which came into being in the 1980s, was not built around technology like raw and therefore requires a rather clumsy workflow.
2. When a document gets exported to Photoshop the user is presented with a confusing array of choices as to how that photograph should be handled. Each option with it’s own series of advantages and drawbacks.
When a photo gets brought back into LR after being edited in PS it creates a new copy. If that photo then gets edit a second and third time it just keeps creating more copies of the image. The same problem can be said of adobe camera raw.
4. I always thought it was a little odd that you have to export an image from LR in order to use it in another app. App’s like LR, Aperture, and Photos are file navigation programs so why do I need to bring a photo from one navigation program (Lightroom) into another navigation program (the Finder) in order to work with it? Yes, I realize that at times you may need a smaller resolution file of an image like for a webpage but why can’t I just make a smaller version from within the photo navigation program and keep the images all in the same app? Doesn’t make sense to me.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Modern apps like Pixelmator are similar to PS except they can handle raw directly from within the app. It seems like it would be possible to team up with Pixelmator so that a raw photo could go between the two apps while keeping all their settings in tact and not requiring users to make unnecessary duplicates of exported files. For an example you could change the brightness in Apple’s Pro app and then it would still stay at the same setting in Pixelmator. And then if you changed the brightness again in Pixelmator the adjustment bar setting would be brought over to Apple’s Photos.
Since Pixelmator didn’t exist when Aperture 1.0 came out the two companies were not able to unify their two products. When you start over with a new product considerations like this can be taken into account. One of the things I hate about Adobe’s photo apps is the way that a lot of modern technology like raw feels very tacked on (because it is.)

Well there are standards and they are the IPTC/exif metadata. Across all OSes. And even after Apple adopted Mavericks tags it still uses keywords in its photo applications. And no mav tags in iOS either (but you CAN read IPTC/exif data in photos in iOS). Tags are in extended attributes, and hence may be inaccessible in another filesystem.Even Apple Mail doesn't use them. You have to put the tag in the form of x-tag or something into the header info (BTW, if you like tags, as I do, check out MailTags. It does this and more).
If you photo apps don't read standard IPTC/exif data something is seriously wrong. Also you don't have to dig through hundreds of criteria to search for photo metadata. The stuff is already indexed; the categories like aperture, caption, etc are ways to narrow searches. All your LR keywords would be in the Spotlight index, assuming you enable Spotlight on the volumes where they reside, and that you wrote the keyword metadata to the files.
I think you have a stronger point re tagging/keywording in regards to XMP sidecars. Yet another area for improvement. If you add keywords to a RAW in Aperture or LR they are not gonna write that keyword to the RAW unless you apply some force. The standard way of doing that is by using XMP sidecar files. And short answer is that for some Spotlight indexes the XMPs via the rich text mdimporter; for some this means modifying that same importer. In either case, if Spotlight finds the keyword it can only point you to the sidecar, not the companion RAW. Since a tag is in the extended attributes, it sorta isn't in the RAW, but Spotlight would send you to the RAW if it were tagged. So allowing THAT kind of tagging in Aperture, LR or whatever would be great IMHO.
And I'd like to ADD tags from Aperture. But I'd always want it to be in addition to photo keywords and other metadata. Just like captions, filenames, and other stuff is separate. I can still search for them at the same time if I want. Or ignore them. And you may already have the "wedding" problem: that word may in the content of files, or in a filename, or in an email header, or a web url, or whatever. Even without photo metadata you sometimes have to tell Spotlight to ONLY search tags and ignore other criteria.
Since you like tags, check out Leap. I use it to keep lots of stuff together that have tags and keywords, and other searchable attributes. Even email. All in one place. And HoudahSpot; it has templates you can set up for just photos and it displays all the photo metadata in one panel.
And although I'd like to see it happen, non-destructive editing can be a problem because edits have to be stored somewhere. A universal format would be cool, but we'll see. Editors like Pixelmator are different tools than DAMs like Aperture, even though they both can say crop or change contrast. You'll find tons of photographers who never use PS, and tons of graphic artists who never use Aperture. Depends on the focus of your work. Even the system wide versioning Apple introduced for stuff like Pages or Text Edit hasn't been universally loved. And BTW, not sure Pixelmator doesn't view Apple as a competitor. Sure, Apple may provide them with some cool tools to sell more Pixelmators...or may develop an application that'll make Pixelmator disappear. And Filemaker is an interesting example: Apple formed Claris, which bought whatever FM was at that point (from MS?). Eventually Apple brought stuff from Claris back in (AW?), and left FM with Claris, which changed its name. Maybe they should Aperture OUT to Pixelmator I'd LOVE that. Shoot, given Apple's assets they could send it to 'em free.
And sorry Frank, I shoulda been more specific. I meant "in Aperture" as in the program itself, not a media browser like what you show (and basically iMedia Browser is the same thing, but with LR catalogs in addition to Aperture or iPhoto or file folders).

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I'm currently a Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering double major at UC Davis, and I wanted some input on whether or not a Macbook Air would be suitable for my needs. The 13" 2013 unit with the Haswell CPU is only $999 on Amazon right now and I figured it is priced so competetively with other ultrabooks now that I can actually consider it.
As far as I know, I need access to a Python and C/C++ IDE and compiler, MATLAB, and several CAD applications that my school gives us for certain classes. That's pretty much all I need from now through my bachelors degree. I'll also dual boot Windows 8 since I may occasionally miss Windows, since this will be my only PC from now on (I completely stopped gaming so I sold my custom desktop). I'll also run any programs that are Windows only in Windows of course.
Sure, I will be doing some software design, but the ULV i5 is plenty powerful. I'm not doing some insane rendering or anything. Just some very basic rendering and programming.
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2. Is there any way to have a Windows Partition, an OSX Partition, and an exFAT partition to share my music and videos across both OS's? Both Windows and OSX can read and write to exFAT right?
3. What external hard drive and USB drive formats (other than FAT since I have files larger than 4GB) are best for transferring files to and from OSX and Windows machines?
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I second the above opinion, as I am an Electrical Engineering student currently. I've been using an 11" Air for everything (full options, i7, 8gb, 512ssd). I was using a mid 2011 and i just got the new 2013 model and I have to say both have performed outstanding.
Since you're gonna be an engineer i'll tell you how I run my machine to let you know how powerful it is for school:
I run 4 desktops that i swipe between constantly with 10+ programs running, most of which are not your normal small programs (Autocad, MotionBuilder, etc.)
My 5th desktop that i swipe between is Parallels Desktop running windows 7 for the non-mac apps, inside of windows i typically run 3+ programs which include AutoCad, Quartus (electronic modeling) and PSpice.
Keep in mind that I run all of this at the same time and it's probably too much (I don't need to run everything at once I just love to keep evrything up so between classes I don't have to prepare for the next).
All I have to say is the machine kills it. i'm serious, no lag, fluid autocad building, low heat, and great battery, i got about 5 hours out of my 2011 model and i expect to see 8+ out of this one when school gets going again.
You're in the right direction, i think you'll be more than happy with a new Macbook Air if you max out the options, and then you'll increase the resale so in 2-3 years you can grab the latest and greatest as i did.
Good luck in engineering and don't let it get to you, stick it out and it'll be worthwhile!

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Apple certified cable for AV RCA out and USB sync with BMW car's COMBOX

My recently purchased Apple certified cable for AV RCA out and USB sync works very well with the PC and TV. I bought it to connect to my BMW car's COMBOX interface which is designed to connect to Apple products.
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