Episode 245: The Least Broken
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🗓️ 3 November 2015
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: First impressions of the new Apple TV
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the triumphs and travails of their first few days with the fourth generation Apple TV.
Links for this episode:
- New Apple TV: Tips, Tricks, Siri Remote Shortcuts and Useful Settings - Mac Rumors
To complement our coverage of the new Apple TV, which includes a trio of hands-on videos, an Apple TV apps roundup, several tidbits, and a reviews roundup, we have created the following list of tips, tricks, and shortcuts for the new streaming device, some of which are outlined in the Apple TV user guide. The tips are centered upon useful Siri Remote shortcuts and Apple TV settings.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Oh, hi, Merlin. How are you? No, I'm fine Skype updated Skype updated. That's never |
| 0:06.6 | good. I get a different icon. This is unusual. |
| 0:09.0 | It's exciting. Yeah. Oh, well good. It's a whole new world. Yeah. How are you doing? |
| 0:14.8 | Great. You sound good. Oh, thank you. I feel pretty good. |
| 0:18.0 | Better than last week. Oh, drop one. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we're just |
| 0:23.5 | about to throw up pretty rough. You know, it takes to write these, you know, it takes to write |
| 0:28.4 | these things. The bits, the jokes. No, there's the whole script. Oh, right. From start to finish, |
| 0:33.0 | the proofreading and the hold for laugh. It's complicated stuff. That Roderick show, man. |
| 0:38.1 | Ooh, it takes a month to write one of those. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. So big week, big, huge week with |
| 0:45.5 | the Apple Apple stuff Apple TV. Yeah. We told our listeners that we don't have to jump straight |
| 0:50.6 | into it that we'll be talking about the Apple TV today, which I guess on the face of it, we've |
| 0:56.0 | been talking more about Apple stuff lately because there's been more Apple stuff to talk about. |
| 0:59.6 | Don't you think? I totally agree with you. Yeah. Our ordinarily, I don't know, it's not like a |
| 1:05.2 | centerpiece of the show, although we are, I mean, I can't speak for you, but I mean, all I use |
| 1:09.0 | is Apple stuff, so that kind of makes sense. But yeah, it's something we've both been waiting on |
| 1:13.1 | and hoping for for such a long time that I think it's worth spending some time with. And, you know, |
| 1:18.6 | I guess part of it is, some of it doesn't want to talk about how much I love, how much I don't love, |
| 1:23.5 | and I don't know if we can exactly give buying advice, but I think it's, I think we're getting, |
| 1:28.9 | I'm jumping ahead a little here, but I think we're getting to a point where there are so many |
| 1:31.5 | options in set top boxes and other just various ways of getting to your media stuff that it's worth |
| 1:39.1 | being a little more particular and detailed about how this stuff works. I love it. I love your idea |
| 1:43.7 | to do this and I'm totally on board with it. I think there is, there are so many options out there |
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