Using the Apple TV. The Apple TV

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1 Using the Apple TV The Apple TV The Apple TV connects to your home (Wifi, or wired) network, and plugs into your TV/home theatre via HDMI / optical audio cable. Make sure you have a TV that has an available HDMI input and you will need to buy an HDMI cable. There are 3 main usage scenarios: 1. You can listen to/watch streamed music & video from a few internet sources (itunes, icloud, Youtube, Vimeo etc) on your TV/home theatre. 2. If you have music & videos in itunes on your home Mac/PC, you can watch them on your TV/home theatre. (This is Home Sharing). 3. If you're watching a video or listening to music on a ipad/iphone at home, you can 'push' that onto the TV/home theatre (this is Airplay). You can use the physical remote device for controlling the AppleTV, but using the Remote app on an ipad or iphone is far better for navigating a lot of content. Using Apple s Home Sharing feature, you can share and transfer content between itunes and ios devices in your household including the ipad, iphone, ipod touch and Apple TV. If your household has multiple ios devices or just one, using Home Sharing can give you access to your itunes libraries, allowing you to share music, movies and more between your Mac or PC to your ios devices. Using the Apple TV - 1

2 Connecting the Apple TV to your TV 1. Connect one end of the HDMI cable to the Apple TV. 2. Connect the other end of the HDMI cable to a spare HDMI port on your TV. The sound will come from the TV speakers. Connect the Apple TV to a Receiver You could also connect the Apple TV directly to the receiver with the HDMI cable. This will depend on how you have set up your home theatre requipment Using the Apple TV - 2

3 Look for the HDMI inputs on your TV NOTE: Remember which HDMI port you plugged the cable into to connect your Apple TV. Turn on the TV You need to change the setting on your TV to make sure that it's getting a signal from the HDMI port that you plugged your Apple TV into. Using your TV's remote, look for an Input button, or it might say Source and switch to the correct HDMI port. Once you have the correct port configured on the TV, you should see the Apple TV main menu or an Apple logo. Using the Apple TV - 3

4 Setup your Apple TV Using the remote control that came with your Apple TV select Settings menu. See the video below. Selecting Movies, TV Shows, Music will take you to the itunes store where you can rent or buy media. Finding media from your local itunes Library Turn on Home sharing in itunes on your computer Using the Apple TV - 4

5 Sharing your library in itunes From itunes, Preferences, select the Sharing tab and select: Share my library on my local network. you have some decisions to make as to how much media you share and whether a password is required. Setup Home Sharing on the Apple TV In the Apple TV, navigate with your remote to Computers. Once you say Yes, the Apple TV will automatically find any itunes libraries on that have home sharing turned un using that account. (The computer with the shared library needs to be turned on) Using the Apple TV - 5

6 Setup Home sharing on the ipad Once you ve enabled Home Sharing on itunes, you ll need to enable it on your ios device. Open Settings > Video or Music Enter the Apple ID and password for the itunes library being shared. Using the Apple TV - 6

7 Accessing the itunes Library using the app: Remote This is the app, Remote; download it from the app store. Apple TV can access all itunes shared libraries. This is accessing my imac library with TV programmes selected. Using the Apple TV - 7

8 Select a TV show to watch Select a program, then an episode and tap the Play button. How to access shared music and video - on the ipad (without the Remote App) This example is from the Videos app on the ipad. Select the Shared library. Using the Apple TV - 8

9 Select the media - TV, Film or Music 1. Select the type of media yopu want to stream. 2. Select a movie. You can either play it or select a chapter and play from that spot. Using the Apple TV - 9