The new Apple TV looks exactly like the previous version: same small black box. It’s got the same inputs and outputs on the back: AC power, HDMI output, micro-USB for service only, optical audio output, 10/100 Ethernet. It’s just as easy to set up: simply sign in to your Wi-Fi account and use the remote (or better yet, the free Remote app on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch) to navigate around. 

You’ll find more content than ever before. We dinged the last Apple TV for offering iTunes Store rentals but not purchases. That’s changed: now you can purchase TV shows, plus rent and purchase movies. Movies you rent on the Apple TV can only be watched on that Apple TV. You have 30 days to start watching, and then once you begin a movie, 24 hours to finish it. Movies and TV shows you’ve previously purchased from iTunes are available via the cloud, so it no longer matters if you have a Mac constantly running iTunes to stream those from.

If you use iTunes Match ($24.99/year), your music collection is available in the Music tab. But if not, just turn on Home Sharing in iTunes on your Mac, and all your music, plus anything else in your iTunes library, is available in the Computers tab. And it’s a snap to stream music from an iOS device to the Apple TV via AirPlay. 

Pretty much every set-top device has Netflix, but the Apple TV has the nicest Netflix interface we’ve seen, and you can even sign up for a Netflix trial or service plan right from the device. You can also access MLB.TV, NBA League Pass, and NHL Game Center subscriptions. For more free content, you can watch movie trailers, check out the WSJ Live ad-supported news channel, or browse YouTube, Vimeo, iTunes podcasts, and internet radio. Unfortunately, you can’t add more content channels like you can on the Roku box (the 1080p version is $79.99, www.roku.com), which also has HBO Go, Pandora, Hulu Plus, and Amazon Instant Video, among others. 

The box will stream in photos from your iCloud Photo Stream and Flickr (it also supports MobileMe galleries, but those are going away soon). Photos look awesome on the big screen, you get 12 slideshow themes to choose from, and the slideshows double as screen savers. If you don’t want to look at your own pictures, Apple TV has some beautiful high-resolution National Geographic photos you can use as a screen saver too. 

But so far everything we’ve talked about--abilities and recently refreshed interface--is available to owners of the previous Apple TV via a software update. The only reason for current owners to upgrade is 1080p streaming, which looks great and didn’t affect buffering times on our speedy 15Mbps cable internet. If you’re on a slow DSL connection, movies and even shows can take forever to be ready, sometimes longer than the video itself. 

The bottom line. If you’ve been waiting for 1080p, now’s the time to get an Apple TV, especially if you’re heavily invested in iTunes content and/or you want to beam your media from your Mac to your TV. But if your big-screen TV tops out at 720p, and you just want to stream Netflix and other internet-based content, the 720p Roku 2 HD is only $59.99.

(Source from: http://www.maclife.com/article/reviews/apple_tv_review_0)

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As a powerful M4P to MP3 music converter for Mac, NoteBurner M4P Converter for Maccan convert purchased iTunes DRM protected M4P, M4B, M4A music files to plain MP3, AAC and WAV formats ready for use on any mobile music player, such as iPod, PSP, Zune, iPhone, regular MP3 player, MP4 player, etc. But sometimes, users may encounter with some unexpected problems, like no virtual CD burner can be found, or no external library can be loaded, etc. Don't worry. The following article will take a user's mail as an example to show you some simple ways to resolve the virtual CD burner and iTunes external library problems. (C for Customer, and A for Agent.)

C: Hi guys, I have two questions here.

1. My Noteburner M4P Converter for Mac will not work anymore. It says I have to install the virtual CD burner. I don't know where it has gone.

2. I just can't get the demo iTunes DRM converter to fine the iTunes library cause it's on a huge external drive. How can I get it to see that external library? My normal internal drive can't hold 150,000 songs. So I had to move the iTunes library to that external one.

Thanks for any help. Please help me out. I have over 6000 purchased DRM songs, so I think Noteburner iTunes converter will be great but it will not let me do any conversion. It says library can not be found when i try "add".

A: Dear customer, please don't worry.

1. Regarding to your first problem, it is because Noteburner M4P Converter for Mac is for 32bit OS. So it doesn't work on 64bit OS. Please simply go to Mac M4P Converter to download the trial version of Mac M4P Converter and register it with the same code for Noteburner M4P Converter to make it a full version.

2. Regarding to the external library problem, please open iTunes and immediately hold down the 'Option' key, there will be a pop-up window asking you to choose the iTunes library. You can then select the external library which contains the songs you want to convert with Noteburner M4P Converter for Mac.

C: Thanks! That worked! Everything works fine now.

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So if you are using Noteburner M4P Converter and can't find virtual CD burner or load iTunes external library, please refer to the resolutions mentioned above, that are, going ahead to download Mac M4P Converter or launch iTunes and immediately hold down the 'Option' key to choose iTunes library manually.

If you are running Windows OS, please refer to Noteburner Audio Converter for Windows for more information.

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I'm thinking of buying a HTC Evo 4G LTE since the preorder will be available in May. But at the same time, I'm worrying whether I can play my iTunes movies with M4V extension on HTC Evo 4G after I bought it. Because so far I have already collected about 100 movies from iTunes. You know, it is amazing when enjoying those movies you love on your handset especially on a trip.

So I'm wondering if there is any program that can convert iTunes M4V movies to HTC Evo 4G. I then searched Google for "convert M4V to HTC smartphone" and found some M4V DRM converter software. I tried two of them, one is called Aimersoft DRM Media Converter and the other isNoteburner M4V Converter. But to be frankly, I prefer Noteburner. Why? The most important reason is because Noteburner M4V Converter is able to convert rental M4V movies from iTunes. That will save a great amount of money for me.

So I downloaded the Free Trial version of Noteburner and installed it on my PC running Windows 7. As instructed, I add the M4V movie by clicking "Add" button. Then set the Profile as "Customized MP4 Video". Although I don't know what video formats HTC Evo 4G LTE will support, I choose the MPEG-4 because I think it may be similar to other HTC smartphone, like HTC Evo 3D. I set the parameters, like video size, bit rate, etc. to suit for HTC Evo 3D which I borrowed it from my friend to have a test. After that, I start to convert the movie by clicking the button "Convert". Since I use the trial version, it can only convert 3 minutes of the M4V movie. I import the converted movie into HTC Evo 3D to playback. Yes, it plays fine with good quality.

I just want to share this software with people who have the same problem with mine. Besides converting M4V to HTC, Noteburner M4V Converter can also convert iTunes movies to other hot devices including Apple iPhone, iPad, Xoom, PSP, etc. BTW, if you are using a Mac, you can try Noteburner M4V Converter Plus for Mac.

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Music sold on Apple iTunes Store has accounted for more than 80% of worldwide online digital music sales. Most of these songs are in aac (m4p, m4a or other extension) format and protected by Digital Right Management (DRM). Another big name in digital media industry, Microsoft, has also applied DRM on its wma audio files, even much more restrict than Apple Inc.

DRM-encrypted audio files are only allowed to be copied to and played on a limited number of authorized computers and portal devices. The digital rights of the manufactures are protected. But the free digital rights ofmillions of users are neglected and robbed away.

That’s why people all over the world are claiming their digital rights. And that’s why they need DRM audio converters. Tune4Mac is the Mac OSX version of DRM audio converter which can help free the DRM music they purchased, so that they can enjoy the music wherever they want, on what ever platform they feel it’s convenient.

Generally, M4P to MP3 audio converter can:

However, different DRM audio converter may have various features. Some DRM audio converters may support only a few popular audio formats. Some DRM audio converters may require media players to play back or burn the audio files. In this case, make sure that the DRM audio file is supported by your media players.

M4P is used for the DRM protected music and movies in iTunes Store. M4P format is protected AAC. It is a format of purchased music that can be listened to only through the iTunes softer or an iPod. M4P to MP3 converter is used to convert MP4 audio files encrypted by FairPlay DRM as sold through Tunes Store use .m4p extension.

Is it possible to "convert" iTunes store files to other formats on Mac OS? As far as we know, there is not currently a true solution for "converting" iTunes music M4P files to other formats due to restrictions placed on the format by Apple. However, there are many legitimate reasons for wanting to convert these files, and many feel they should be able to do so. The DRM Converter for Mac features a solution for this. It includes a powerful audio editor feature that can be used to record iTunes M4P files as they play in iPod, Zune, PSP, etc MP4/MP3 Players.

To convert M4P to MP3 format, you can burn iTunes playlist, which contains the songs you want to convert to MP3, to physical CDs. And then rip the CD sound tracks to MP3 songs. It’s a bit wasting and unpractical if you have huge quantity of iTunes M4P songs to be converted to MP3.

M4P format is "protected AAC". It is a format of purchased music that can be listened to only through the iTunes or an iPod. Basically, we can convert M4P to MP3 with a M4P to MP3 conversion tool such as Tune4Mac M4P Converter (Mac OSX version) or Tune4Win M4P Converter (windows XP/Vista). Tune4Mac works on iTunes and Mac OS X. 10.4 or later.

This solution only works for iTunes 5.0 or below.

Google and download hymn, install it to c:\hymn

Create the directory c:\hymn\music\

Open iTunes and drag your playlist or files to c:\hymn\music

At a command prompt (open a MS-DOS command prompt 'start->accessories->command prompt' ) go to c:\hymn\ and type: hymn c:\hymn\music\yoursong.m4p c:\hymn\music\yoursong.m4a.This will convert yoursong.m4p files to yoursong.m4a format. More simple, you type: hymn c:\hymn\music\*.m4p. This will convert all M4P files in c:\hymn\music to M4A format.

Although the features of DRM audio converters may vary, there is common criterion that can be applied to judge the excellence of a DRM audio converter:

Converting speed matters the most for people who have a huge quantity of songs in their music libraries waited to be converted.

Fast and nice. Sound quality comes as the second most important thing in doing audio conversion. Who would appreciate the audio that is floppy and noisy, any way?

Most music and audio book lovers have only average acknowledge about audio and computer, so it’s a virtue to make it easy to use the DRM audio converter. Easy audio converters shall have user-friendly interface and clear navigation, and only a few steps to complete the converting.

Unstable performance might probably cause program crash and the abortion of the whole converting process, which maybe batch conversion of hundreds of songs, or result inferior audio files with bad sound quality.

Mp3 ID3 tag commonly contains the Artist name, Song title, Year and Genre of the current audio file. And album info contains alum name, and album art, if available. All this information is critical for managing music library. So make sure the audio converter can preserve ID3 tag and album info, or least ID3 tag, into the converted audio files.

Additional features like batch conversion, auto-find DRM audio files, edit ID3 tag, and restructure output folder, etc. provide better user experiences. However, too many features would confuse users.

Promised and efficient technical support service is finally expected to attribute extra points to an excellent DRM audio converter.

If you are looking for a program to remove DRM protection from iTunes movies and convert them to MP4, MOV or other video formats, you may be interested with Tune4mac iTunes Video Converter Platinum for Mac.

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