If you have a second-generation Apple TV and want the nifty new interface you saw during Apple’s event in San Francisco on Wednesday, you’re in luck – a new update is now available for download and installation, and it replaces the old, busted, horribly antiquated and very retro-looking Apple TV interface with that hot, shiny, simplified interface you saw in screenshots and Apple’s recently-posted QuickTime video of the event.
Of course, you don’t get 1080p video support – that’s supported by speedier hardware inside the newest Apple TV, which goes on sale at the end of next week. But if you’d at least like your existing Apple TV to look the part, just make sure to run the “Update Software” command under the “General” menu.
Obviously, you don’t want to feel vomit rise in your throat every time you look at a tragic old-school Apple TV interface, so update it just as fast as you can (to version 5.0) and banish the old software to the dustbin of history.
O Happy Day! I’ve grown weary of the taste of rising vomit.
I never do!
And lose XMBC? Thanks, but no thanks.
That’s not retro. I’m still using a Mac Mini (running Tiger) connected an old Sony CRT TV as my media centre. I am now ready to finally upgrade my setup. 🙂
And if you’re one of the lucky folks to have the original ATV (or even 2), you’re stuck with the old interface as Apple seems to have abandoned us as if it never existed…
Hi Jim, here after listening to you on Talk Show this week. Personally I had no probs with the old interface, but I do like the new shiny hotness! We will not be upgrading the hardware though, as our TV’s are “only” 720p so no need.
Our current TV’s are about 4 and 2 1/2 years old. When they go on to their final reward, which I don’t anticipate any time soon, if there’s no significant cost difference between 720 and 1080, we may step up then.