Apple TV playlist

January 24th, 2009 at 19:59 · Filed Under At Work, Blogging, Business, Computing, Days in My Life, Education, Mac OS X, Medical 

I have installed an Apple TV at my client’s office waiting area. His purpose is to educate his patients while they are waiting for their consultation. That is a brilliant idea as we had long and boring waiting experience when LA was consulting him.

The idea is to design different programs with advertisements and messages interleaved among documentary and his own educational videos for playback on different days of the week. And the most important thing is to allow the doctor himself to easily update his educational videos and advertisements anytime as he wishes from his new 24″ iMac.

After I installed Apple TV a few days ago, I realized it did not have movie playlist. After Googling for a while, I wasn’t alone. Here is a blog entry with the same problem. And I found out the Apple TV Software Update 2.3 allows movie playlist in iTunes to be seen on Apple TV. I downloaded the 2.3 update this afternoon, and after I activated the movie playlist in Apple TV settings, it is now able to play the movies in the playlist as desired.

I pondered why Apple did not ship Apple TV with new software update 2.3. It was released in November 2008. About the Apple TV software update can be found here.

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2 Responses to “Apple TV playlist”

  • Pat Ridge on February 2nd, 2010 22:25 1

    I am planning to buy an Apple TV, and I want to have a playlist with videos that can loop. Is it possible to set the video playlist to repeat on Apple TV?

    Thanks,
    Pat Ridge

  • Adrian Hoe on February 2nd, 2010 23:51 2

    Yes, you can create a playlist using iTunes and then sync to AppleTV.

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