My ATV2 is dog slow loading photos and albums. Where any web based stuff is almost instant, and Netflix works great, it takes a painfully long time to load photos from the Mac in the next room via Ethernet. From what I've read, it isn't me but I've never seen any solution or explanation, other than ATV has to load everything even to just display a portion of the library.

Has the ATV3 solved this? I have read that it now displays photos in 1080p and that they look much better than on ATV2. Is this so?

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My new ATV3s are on their way from Apple.

I'll let you know later this week.

I just got one today as a gift. It's something I never would have bought for myself. It was easy to set up and now I wonder why I never got one myself. I am running it wirelessly. My router is on the second floor and my TV is on the first floor. I ran a slide-show using my iPhoto library and it operated flawlessly. Photos are in 1080p. It was really amazing. I played some music from my iTunes library. Once again it was flawless. You will not be disappointed.

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I just got one today as a gift. It's something I never would have bought for myself. It was easy to set up and now I wonder why I never got one myself. I am running it wirelessly. My router is on the second floor and my TV is on the first floor. I ran a slide-show using my iPhoto library and it operated flawlessly. Photos are in 1080p. It was really amazing. I played some music from my iTunes library. Once again it was flawless. You will not be disappointed.

That is good to hear. So, you pretty much don't have to wait for it to load your albums or photos if you want to navigate to a particular photo? Even with my ATV2, running a slideshow is pretty good. The problem is scrolling through the library and waiting for it to catch up to what I'm trying to do.

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My ATV2 is dog slow loading photos and albums. Where any web based stuff is almost instant, and Netflix works great, it takes a painfully long time to load photos from the Mac in the next room via Ethernet. From what I've read, it isn't me but I've never seen any solution or explanation, other than ATV has to load everything even to just display a portion of the library.

Has the ATV3 solved this? I have read that it now displays photos in 1080p and that they look much better than on ATV2. Is this so?

What is "the Mac in the next room"? The ATV can only load the pics as fast as the Mac will be able to serve them up, so it's possible that the hard disk in the Mac itself is the bottleneck. Also assuming you are on a 100Mbps Ethernet network.

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My ATV2 is dog slow loading photos and albums. Where any web based stuff is almost instant, and Netflix works great, it takes a painfully long time to load photos from the Mac in the next room via Ethernet. From what I've read, it isn't me but I've never seen any solution or explanation, other than ATV has to load everything even to just display a portion of the library.

Has the ATV3 solved this? I have read that it now displays photos in 1080p and that they look much better than on ATV2. Is this so?

What is "the Mac in the next room"? The ATV can only load the pics as fast as the Mac will be able to serve them up, so it's possible that the hard disk in the Mac itself is the bottleneck. Also assuming you are on a 100Mbps Ethernet network.

Mac Pro, 2 x 2,8 Quad-Core, 10 GB RAM, and 100baseTX Ethernet. I don't think it's a machine or network issue.

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