At first I was a little frustrated by the simplicity of the Apple TV remote. Effectively there are only six buttons - up, down, left, right, center select and menu. Having been a Tivo user for many years I always found that there were a treasure trove of shortcuts to be found hiding in all the myriad of buttons found on a regular AV remote. I used to like jumping from the Tivo home page to the To Do list by hitting the number 2. Get it? To Do - number two. Now I found myself shuffling between menus one screen at a time on the Apple TV. This feature cheered me up from InnerException.com
Press and hold the menu button to get to the highest menu level. Sweet. I think that there a few other combos to be found if I poke around some more. For instance, during playback you can skip ahead in play back or press and hold to get into the scan mode with it's three speeds of fast forward and rewind. I wonder if the up and down buttons will ever be used for rating a la Tivo's thumbs up and down.
Sometime I feel like this searching for arcane combos or sequences of buttons is somewhat akin to looking for game cheats but when it comes down it it's more like trying to program your sprinkler timer. There are only a few buttons so the desinger had to get creative in order to all the UI out of it that they could. I'm sure if Steve had his way the remote would have no buttons on it all.
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Sorry, but worst buy in my life. It is now an expensive brick, as it only works with another apple computer, not from the web.
What a piece of Sh??. I would never buy one again, nor recommend anyone to buy one!
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