10 Apple TV Tips and Their Friends
Have a new Apple TV? How about an older Apple TV? Chances you will be spending lots of quality time with over the next day or so. Here are 10+ Apple TV tips that will optimize your viewing experience.
Apple TV Tips!
10 — Hold down the Menu button will get you back to the Main Menu faster
09 — Hold the Up button during playback to display info about the video
08 — Holding Select while the info bar is up gives you audio options (i.e. closed captioning)
07 — In Netflix, press play on a episode in the episode summary to play it directly
06 — In Apple TV settings, you can hide apps from the main screen
05 — To organize your home screen, can select an icon and hold down on the center button until the icons start jiggling and move it wherever you want
04 — Be sure to check your Apple TV’s display settings to ensure you’re getting the best resolution for your TV size
03 — iFlicks will format and optimize your movie collection for streaming Apple TV playback. Additionally, iFlicks automatically adds metadata, which is very handy
— Check out Beamer, which stream any movie from a Mac to Apple TV
— XBMC is a free, open-source media server for Apple’s Macs and iThings02 — Get Apple’s free Remote app, which makes entering login and password info much, much easier.
— Have an unused Apple Wireless Keyboard laying around? Why not pair it with your Apple TV!01 — Never misplace the tiny Apple TV Remote every again! Using cheap and convenient sticky velcro squares to your regular TV remote
— No money to spend? Try duct tape…
Clearly, 10 plus Apple TV tips hardly scratches the surface. Share your handy, useful and/or strange Apple TV tips in the comments below…
Via BGR
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Why duct tape? Just program an unused device button on your remote to control the Apple TV. Check out the Remote option in settings to program your remote. It even can add extra functions like skipping ahead and back by a short time interval.
Use all apple devices as spare remote. iPhone, ipad etc.
Why don’t duct? In order reprogram the remote, I would need the manual, which is in the box, which is in the… um… where’s that duct tape?
Bob, actually you don’t need your remote manual. Apple TV does it all for you. Just go to your Apple TV Settings>General>Remotes>Learn Remote and follow instructions. It walks you through setting up what buttons you want to control what features. I don’t have a blu-ray player. So I use that device button on my remote as a way to control my Apple TV. That way I can use just one remote and save my one remote from getting all sticky with duct tape. Try it out and let us know what you think.
Bob,
No need to program the universal remote with a code. Just pick an unused function button (IE. Aux, very or some unused device type), go to the remote settings in the Apple TV and the guide will ask you to map certain buttons to the function of the original apple TV remote. It’s genius!
@brian @kfloydh Sweet, thanks, guys! Super easy!
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