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Is Apple TV really streaming Movie Trailers?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Manchester, UK
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I have been using my Apple TV today and have been surprised as how quickly it can stream movie trailers, they seem to come up instantly. They are much quicker than the same stream on my iMac using the same internet connection and wireless network.
I have a sneaky suspicion that the Apple TV actually comes loaded with a set of trailers or that they are downloading in the background all the time.
I don't believe I am getting HD trailers that fast.
Ian
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Computers - Au MacBook 2.4Ghz, iMac 24" 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Apple's movie trailer stream has been getting really fast in Front Row, so I think that it's just getting faster and faster now that people will actually be using the Movie Trailers service (not just Mac users).
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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Hopefully the speed, and lack of wait time, is a sign to come of speed if they put 720p video on the movie store. Purchasble through apple TV would be nice too.
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Nov 2000
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Your theory should be easy to test once a) you fill up your hard disk or b) a new movie comes out that wasn't available before the Apple TV came out.
(But if you can't wait... There's no way they've cached them all to the hard disk.)
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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yeah they are streaming, my bandwidth jumps to almost full tilt and they start to play in about 1 second. (I monitor the live bandwidth in my router)
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Manchester, UK
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It's very impressive then, really pleased :-)
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Computers - Au MacBook 2.4Ghz, iMac 24" 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo
iPods - 5GB original iPod, 4GB nano - Red, 1GB 2G shuffle - Silver, 4GB 3G Shuffle - Black, 16GB touch, 16GB nano Red, 16GB iPhone 3G.
OSX User Since Public Beta, current OS 10.6.1, iTS UK purchases - 5377 songs.... and growing!
My website - www.idparkinson.co.uk
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Senior User
Join Date: Nov 2002
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I read somewhere the Apple TV trailers are not HD. How can you verify?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 1999
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Some are...some aren't. BackRow appears to autoselect the highest quality available. The sharpness alone (300 for example) tells me there are HD trailers in there.
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