luminary blur

I’ve got an Apple TV and two iTunes libraries on my local network. Remote (on my iPhone) connects fine to my main iTunes library but gives this error message when connecting to either the aTV or the secondary library:

Obviously it’s not a router issue since all the devices in question (iMac, MacBook, and aTV) are connected to the same Airport Extreme.

So…what’s the deal?

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written by Ben \\ tags: Apple TV, iPhone, Remote

I listened to Episode 5 of Don Reisinger’s great The Digital Home podcast on the way home from work today. I enjoyed everything that Andy Ihnatko had to say (as I almost always do) and most of what James McQuivey of Forrester Research had to say. That is until he got to talking about the Apple TV.

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My Apple TV finally arrived today. I ordered the 40 GB model which was shipped from China on Friday. From China. On Friday. They tried to deliver it yesterday but I had it going to my work address and we were closed for MLK day. They tried delivering it on Monday. It came from China. On Friday. Now that’s freaking amazing. Anyway, I took the obligatory unboxing photos. There’s a Picasa Web flash embed after the jump. There’s also a video that’s currently encoding on Vimeo – I’ll post the embed for that after the jump as soon as it becomes available. More on my first Apple TV impressions later. Also, I have thoughts on the Macworld 2008 keynote as well…maybe at some point I will have time to type them out.

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written by Ben \\ tags: Apple, Apple TV, Photos, Unboxing, Video