Apple releases Apple TV Software Update 4.4.3
The new Apple TV update is labeled build 9A4051, and can now be downloaded directly from the device. The version number would suggest that it is a minor update, fixing issues in the Apple TV version 4.4 software update that accompanied the launch of iOS 5 in October.
Version 4.4.3 marks the third update to have arrived since the release of 4.4, a more significant update that added AirPlay Mirroring support, Wall Street Journal Live, National Hockey League Content, Photo Stream, and iTunes Trailers. Details for Apple TV Software Update 4.4.3 have not yet been revealed by Apple.
The last Apple TV update arrived in late October with Software Update 4.4.2. It addressed an issue that required a small number of Apple TV units to be connected to iTunes in order to complete an update.
Apple also quietly added support for iTunes Match to the Apple TV early this month, without the need for a software update on the device. The $24.99-per-year iTunes Match service, which lets users re-download their entire music library on a range of devices, launched this week with the release of iTunes 10.5.1.
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I hope it fixes a weird bug I've had since I did the last update, whereby it would tell me all my libraries on my Mac contained no content. The fix was to close and re-open iTunes on the Mac, but since the Mac is all the way upstairs, and the Apple TV was in the living room, it was a pain to do.
Since late october every purchased TV show I get gives me a "content unauthorized to play on this Apple TV" error. I have to de-authorize my Mac from the iTunes Store (which erases all purchased content on my Apple TV) and then re-authorize it (which re-copies purchases to my Apple TV) every time I get a new episode of anything. Makes me really want to stop paying for content! Anyone else got this problem? Found any solutions?
Since late october every purchased TV show I get gives me a "content unauthorized to play on this Apple TV" error. I have to de-authorize my Mac from the iTunes Store (which erases all purchased content on my Apple TV) and then re-authorize it (which re-copies purchases to my Apple TV) every time I get a new episode of anything. Makes me really want to stop paying for content! Anyone else got this problem? Found any solutions?
DRM just the studios way of letting you know that THEY THINK YOU'RE A THIEF!
Sad thing is had you actually been a THIEF you wouldn't have this silly hiccups.
DRM driving honest customers into the pirates den since 1984*
* A sick salute to Macrovision I guess...
Sorry you're having this problem perhaps you might wanna search the Apple Support Discussion Forms (hosted on apples site). Tho, they'll will likely tell you everything is FINE and ITS supposed to work that way. They tend to do that whenever someone posting a problem with Apple products.
EDIT!
Actually something odd happened to me today... I looked up and for some odd reason my clock was like 6 or 7 hours ahead. I went into the time settings and somehow it though my machine was somewhere across the Atlantic.... Weird and if I let it 'auto set' it kept doing it... I had to manually modify it to NYC.
Perhaps IF iTunes somehow looks at timezone information that might muck things up... THO this is JUST a wild a*sed guess.
Since late october every purchased TV show I get gives me a "content unauthorized to play on this Apple TV" error. I have to de-authorize my Mac from the iTunes Store (which erases all purchased content on my Apple TV) and then re-authorize it (which re-copies purchases to my Apple TV) every time I get a new episode of anything. Makes me really want to stop paying for content! Anyone else got this problem? Found any solutions?
Have you reported the issue to the iTunes support team? The last time I ran into authorisation issues they were pretty good at working with me to try and resolve them.
Since late october every purchased TV show I get gives me a "content unauthorized to play on this Apple TV" error. I have to de-authorize my Mac from the iTunes Store (which erases all purchased content on my Apple TV) and then re-authorize it (which re-copies purchases to my Apple TV) every time I get a new episode of anything. Makes me really want to stop paying for content! Anyone else got this problem? Found any solutions?
I had a similar problem on a recently downloaded episode of Terra Nova a month or so ago, the free pilot. I was using my MacBook Pro through an HDMI adaptor to my LCD TV (a Sony) and got the same message, I believe. Wasn't the end of the world and we watched the epidode on the laptop in the end. I should try that again and see if it happens again.