Podcast in AppleTv 3.0.1

Welcome
Tomorow I bought AppleTV and update it to 3.0.1, working fine but I have small dificults with podcast, because I can see it directly from the internet, but then I want to download this to the HDD nothing happends, what I doing wrong ? I`m waiting abaut 2 hours and without results.
Sorry for my english.

You can download podcasts to your Apple TV's HDD from the device itself or from iTunes if the ATV is synced. If you only want to view/listen to a podcast from your ATV, find the ones you want and make them a favorite.
If you want to sync podcasts to your ATV's HDD and other devices (iPod etc.), subscribe to the podcasts you want from iTunes and then sync them to the ATV. (To sync them to the ATV do a Custom sync from iTunes and select the Podcast tab.)

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