Review: Apple TV
- Article 7 of 16
- Macworld, March 2007
The Apple TV has finally landed in UK buyers' houses. Rob Buckley was the first to get one, here's his review
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The lack of video content on the iTunes UK store, and inability to playback DivX files ensures that the Apple TV remains near to useless for a general UK audience. We can't help but feel that the Apple TV is a product that needed more features (DivX notably) before hitting the US market, and even more time adapting its output options for the UK market.
Buying Advice
Apple TV suffers from a couple of rather big problems: it’s very hard to get content onto it and it’s very hard to connect it to most TV sets. Its inability to play DivX formats, plus reliance on the as yet non-existent UK iTunes store video content really do work against it. As such we can't recommend this product at this point in time.
Anyone with enough technical expertise and the cash necessary for an expensive TV upgrade will find that the Apple TV is indeed pleasant to use in practice and does all it claims to. But everyone else can find cheaper, better options, such as an video-out iPod cable.
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