It appears my Apple TV passed away sometime last night or today. The Apple TV worked tirelessly traveling thousands of miles between Youngsville and Rodanthe for several years. Perhaps a future stuck in Durham for the next year or more was too much for the old man to take and he simply gave up the digital ghost.
I can't say this was good timing, though, as I'll probably not be able to get another Apple TV for some time to come. I have many, many DVDs encoded for Apple TV that formerly resided on said appliance and I don't think they will play full-screen on a television attached mini hence I'm kind of at a crossroads.. do I go with the TV attached mini or an Apple TV. The Apple TV had a couple of cool features such as being able to use the unit as a remote speaker set for iTunes computers on the same LAN. It doesn't sound like much and you can do the same with a set of speakers and an Apple Airport Express but that's just one more thing on top of all the other things to find a home for.
Not that it matters, it will be a couple months before I get adjusted well enough to my new financial situtation to feel comfortable dropping hundredes of dollars on any new gizmo. Still, I've had the feeling for a long time that Apple was going to let this one die on the vine much like the Apple Hi-Fi that I loved so much.
If I could fix the Apple TV I probably would. I had been thinking the disk was going to die as the movies played "stuttered" quite a bit but now it won't even power up. That's obviously bad, especially with a unit that has an internal power brick. If put plug the unit in it won't boot and the power light on the front will not illuminate. So I think it's good and dead. Surgery coming soon (this weekend?) will confirm the status.
Goodnight, Apple TV. We had some great times together.
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