{"id":372,"date":"2020-08-27T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/?p=372"},"modified":"2020-08-27T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T20:56:00","slug":"appletv-new-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"AppleTV &#8211; new toys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sorting out the house over the summer I came across an old AppleTV Gen 2 box.  Its long since gave up getting updates and logging into the damn things proved a trial as its too old to recognize 2FA logins.<br>Some googling threw up the fact you can still do this, but have to append the generate 2FA code to your password in the password field.<br><br>This unlocked my iCloud so I could bring up my Camera Roll and finally accessed all the photos I have taken over the years from my phone.  Too many don&#8217;t make it into proper albums or printed, but watching them back brings back happy memories of holidays and days out.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/appletv4k.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-376\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A bonus byproduct of this trial of viewing old photos, which I had hooked into the AV AMP under the telly, was the music quality that was being pumped out alongside the pictures.   Being a Gen2 AppleTv, though the pictures although good did not match the audio quality, being a max of 720 lines.. not even full HD.<br><br>A quick trawl of Amazon turned up the AppleTV 4K 64Gb model on a next day delivery with payments spread over 5 months.. Not quite an impulse purchase, but now I have access to all of the Apple content and HQ music and easy access to all the family photos for not much more that a good quality digital photo frames of not so long ago.<br><br>the TvOS has come along way since the original device, so will probably penlty of playing with the new apps and settings to get things just right.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorting out the house over the summer I came across an old AppleTV Gen 2 box. Its long since gave up getting updates and logging into the damn things proved a trial as its too old to recognize 2FA logins.Some googling threw up the fact you can still do this, but have to append the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/?p=372\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AppleTV &#8211; new toys&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-music","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}