What Is Apple TV?

Apple TV is a digital media receiver sold, manufactured and marketed by the Apple Company. This is not helping you a lot to understand what is Apple TV and the next question might be "what is a digital media receiver?", well you will find the answer in the next lines.

A digital media adapter (DMA) or digital media receiver (DMR) is a home entertainment device that can be connected, for retrieving digital media files, to a home network. The media files can be pictures, music, podcasts or videos from a media server or a personal computer, and then play them back on a TV or a home theater system.

A digital media receiver is able to connect to a home network using either wired connection or wireless connection. This kind of media receiver includes a user interface that allows consumers to navigate through the digital media library, to search and to play back media files such as music, photos or videos. There are many kind of different digital media receivers, that are designed to handle different tasks: for example, you can find on the market media receivers that handle only music, others that handle pictures and music, a lot of them handle beside pictures and music, videos. And if you want to go further you can find others that allows you internet browsing or, if you like, to control Live TV from a computer with a TV tuner.

A digital media receiver has a lot of functions, some of them are:

An Apple TV is a digital media receiver and so much more. The latest version of Apple TV can be bought with 229.00 US dollars and has hard disk space of 160 GB, so you can store in it as many music, videos, podcasts or movies as you like.

Apple TV allows consumers to play music, view photos or watch videos using an HDTV. This media files can originate from a local network or an Internet media service. Internet media services include: YouTube, MobileMe, iTunes Store or Flickr.  By connecting straight to the iTunes Store, for example, consumers can rent or buy movies, buy songs, television shows, albums, or music videos and can subscribe to audio or video podcasts. Many of this media files can be watched and played in high definition.

Users can browse and view YouTube videos or MobileMe photo albums. Apple TV can also stream or sync video, photo or music content from a network connected computer that is running iTunes.

Apple TV connects to video equipment or to a television through component video connections or High Definition Multimedia Interface.  The consumers must buy a component video/stereo or HDMI cable because Apple TV does not come with this kind of cable.

With Apple TV users can receive direct stream from YouTube, to be allow at this service you don't require a YouTube account you can make it if you want your options to be personalized.

Users can browse the iTune store, view podcasts and save them as favorites. You can view from Flickr and MobileMe accounts your internet photos, the product is going to display the photos in a slide show.

Apple TV gives users access to a very large selection of HD movies. First you must select a movie and them you can watch it. The HD movies can be rented starting at 3.99 US dollar and if you don't have the time to watch it the day you have ranted it, is not a problem, because you have 30 days to watch it. You can play it as many times as you want in 24 hours. You have many options to choose from: drama to comedy, classics to romance, thrillers to independents or popular Hollywood titles. A standard movie rental is 2.99 US dollar for the titles in the library and for new releases is 3.99 US dollars.

If you like short films, you can find Pixar animated shorts for only 1.99 US dollars.

If you want the collection of your favorite movies to become permanent you can buy them for 9.99 US dollars and, you will see, that the most of them are available the day they are released on DVD.

You can also find foreign language tracks, subtitles and a built-in parental control; this helps you to limit the types of movies your children can buy or rent.

Anything you purchase on your Apple TV can be transfer to your iPhone or iPod because it syncs back on your computer to iTnues.

You can also buy songs or albums from iTunes Store; songs cost 1.29 US dollar each and an album is about 9.99 US dollar. Once you have bought the songs or videos youcan make a playlist of your favorite music and that is how you can create your own music channel. The music can also be transferred to your iPhone or iPod.

You can explore the YouTube channel and see the movies you like in high definition. Consumers have also access to live internet radio. You can browse many streaming radio stations and you can find what type of genre you like best: reggae, jazz, rock, hip-hop, dance, pop and classical music.

Apple TV is the next generation of entertainment; you can rent or buy what media files you want without leaving your home. You can make every night a movie night because you have a lot to choose from.