I’ve enjoyed my Apple TV a lot since buying it in that first week it was out. Even upgraded my TV. We don’t have cable, so we get all of our TV from iTunes — but, it’s the off season and I was a little bored with my selection of podcasts and other non-purchased content. Playing with settings in an attempt to veg-out and entertain myself, I happened upon the Update Software feature. Sadly, my Apple TV is up to date.
So I went back to browsing my podcasts, checking them all for some older, unplayed stuff. “Wouldn’t it be great,” I thought, “if I could just create a playlist and play stuff at random?” Yes! It would almost be like watching TV, but it would be my own channel. I wouldn’t have to put up with commercials (as much) and I could lump things together by category, play in order or random, and select the compilation I feel like watching, almost like flipping channels!
Science and tech podcasts over here, comedy and serial TV over here. A veritable self-built cable network streaming through my house!
But the Apple TV won’t play videos in playlists. It doesn’t even see them. It will do music this way, so why not video? So Dear Santa, please give me video playlists (smart video playlists too!) with the YouTube update.
Love,
Tony
Ha! Several hours later and they’ve released the YouTube update. I’ll have to wait till I get home from work to try it out and I’ll report back. I wonder if they had time to implement my idea?
Installed the update at lunch. No playlist update. In fact, the YouTube features are a little disappointing. It’s a promising new delivery system, but I want to have more control over the content and I really want to not have to go back to a menu after every thing I watch. If that’s what I’ll be doing I also want a mouse and keyboard and internet browser. Like I have at my desk. In fact, I’ll just watch YouTube at my desk until I can have a mostly passive experience on my couch.
Nothing but shame on you Apple !!!