Apple TV

[Halex]

We have one not installed & still having problems.

We woud like to have it in our home thatre room whcih has a projector with screen. It is HDMI.

Today we bought the correct leads to install it, we sill dont have a clue whete to plug it in or what to do, we have lots of wires & a smart board, , we have c-bus whatever that is

Anyone know, it desnt seem as simple as plugging it into a tv.

Any help on anything would  be greatly appreciated

H

[JulieO]

Any of these any help?  Lots of info on the net.  Good luck. 

http://ipod.about.com/od/introductiontoappletv/ht/hooking-up-apple-tv.htm

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/AppleTV_SetupGuide.pdf

http://www.cultofmac.com/136718/getting-started-with-your-new-apple-tv-the-right-way-guide/

[Jude59]

We run Apple TV and foxtel through our projector.  Will have a look later and see where the Apple TV is connected.  We didn't set it up though.  May e ours is going to be different because of the foxtel connections too.   Apple TV does work wonderfully.

Just looked  connected HDMI plug to HDMI 1 on projector and optical audio plug to video 1 on  cinema sound center.... Hope that helps.

[Halex]

Julieo, thanks will look at these too, tried on the net but got more confused, love the way the apple people say yes just plug it in & it  tells you what to do.  Cant wait for cp to be able to do all of this

Jude, thanks

Our system was installed too, they gave us a brief run down, but we understand nothing. We need written instructions to follow. We have speakers all over the house & around the pool area, i know we can play cds (worked  that out) but also can connect to ipods etc, but which plug goes where & what is C- bus, then we have remotes called A-bus & then normal remotes too. In the past we have just watched blue ray dvds but we need to use all this equipment properly.

H

[Mama Fergie]

That's why we got an expert out Hally as we were in the same situation.
Expensive equipment throughout the house but no idea how to use it,
The guy that DH's friend recommended was awesome and now I we can use everything.
The universal remote has a help function which explains absolutely everything.

[Halex]

We will get the istallers out again. They show you everything once really fast, we need written instructions.

Thats also the problem with building everything is new & different, so trying to remeber it all at once, too hard.

Told dh he would  have to be home too, but in all honesty he is worse than me, at the apple store yesterday he couldnt open the apple laptop , bless

 

[Mama Fergie]

 

[judydawn]

Hurry up and grow up CP - your parents need you to be tech savvy 

I'm like you Hally, I need things written down step by step.  Recently I decided to put a DVD on for DH and as it has been so long since we played one (I rarely do but he used to occasionally) neither of us remembered how to do it.  I knew I had written down the simple instruction but had to search high and low to find that tiny piece of information.  How simple it was when I found it.

[Mama Fergie]

Just checked and our universal remote controls are RTI Hally.
Totally user friendly. Everythingis so easy now 

[goldfish]

Hurry up and grow up CP - your parents need you to be tech savvy 

I'm like you Hally, I need things written down step by step.  Recently I decided to put a DVD on for DH and as it has been so long since we played one (I rarely do but he used to occasionally) neither of us remembered how to do it.  I knew I had written down the simple instruction but had to search high and low to find that tiny piece of information.  How simple it was when I found it.

You too, Judy!?!?  I have a dvd I'm really keen to watch again - but do you think I can manage to switch it over?  Written instructions are the only way to go . . . and when I remember/someone shows me what to do it'll be written down and taped to the machine!!  I guess part of the problem is that I don't use it often enough . . . . .

[Mama Fergie]

With this remote you can tap the touch screen and step by step instructions appear by magic
It's wonderful and unless you can't read you can't go wrong

[gertbysea]

I just have a normal TV and setting up the Apple TV was so easy a child could do it with no instructions. It does get complicated with more technology so I would get an expert. Also Hally take photos of all the connections before you start to fiddle.

A simple TV with the little Apple thingy , one cable from it to a HDMI plug at the back of your TV  is all that is required. You can play it from any I device and you can take it  anywhere, from TV to TV and on hols which is handy  downloading movies or what not for the kids. Not that I have ever done it but I know people who swear  by it.

If it cost a couple of hundred to get the expert is is well worth it. No point in having all the good  stuff if you don't know how to use  it  all.

techie talk is a pain in the butt.  Record the instructions on your phone or device  or take a VDO of the expert as he works and talks. I have become a pest when ppl give me instructions . I ask them to repeat and then I record it. Works a treat.

Gert

[cookie1]

It won't be long before CP can do it Hally. We've some friends who wanted to send us some photos. They tried and tried but they were all enormous. Their grandson called round yesterday and did it in a blink for them.

[goldfish]

It won't be long before CP can do it Hally. We've some friends who wanted to send us some photos. They tried and tried but they were all enormous. Their grandson called round yesterday and did it in a blink for them.

  Doesn't that just give you the *****!!!  Where in the gestation period is there programmed computer programming??   

 . . . and then you ask them to show you how it's done, and it's fingers flying over the keyboard in 5 seconds . . . and then they say, "See?  It's really simple!"

[Mama Fergie]

And then when they leave you are back to square one
I used to ask sons to write it down for me to follow and they would just look at me and say 'mum' in that tone of voice inferring that I was an idiot.