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what's up everyone John renter from techno but flew here it's an unboxing of the just released 2010 Apple TV let's get started alright so this now miniscule guy is gonna set you back $99 a significant price drop from the previous version let's go ahead take a look at the box and this box is indeed quite small so you've got a picture now of the black Apple TV on the front nothing on the top not even though Apple logo but there is one on the side and you've got one on the right-hand side which is telling you that it's got 802 11 and Wi-Fi and of course an HDMI port and talking about some of the specs on the back what the Apple TV does essentially it streams content from the iTunes Store or from your computer directly to your television think of it as an iPod for your TV so you can rent movies you can rent TV shows and you can actually watch now Netflix and other streaming content right on your television so let's go ahead and take a look at the previous generation first and see how this big guy transformed into this you can see that there is definitely quite a difference the new Apple TV has abandoned physical storage although it does have an 8 gigabyte flash module in there it's not user accessible all content that comes to this Apple TV is going to be streaming only so enough of me abran let's go ahead and get to the unboxing of course we will bust out the big old knife for this one go ahead and cut on in I've had an Apple TV since they were first released and I've used it quite a bit and I've been waiting for an updated quite excited to see this and see if it lives up to the hype it's be nice to have netflix on demand as well right on my TV that having to go through a video game console or a different set top box so i'll pull off the plastic looks like it's got a bit of a sleeve there which we will take off and there is the Apple TV sitting right on top and this guy is very small I mean incredibly small very light streaming 720p video similar parts to what we see in the iPad at the a4 system-on-a-chip go ahead push it off this side for just a moment we've got the new Apple aluminum or aluminium depending on where you are remote with the standard array of buttons got the up-down left to right menu and playing pause and that is very thin as well go ahead and see what else we're gonna have in the box we're going to have a power cord the power brick is included and you've got a little bit of an Apple TV set-up guide and that is about it I'll do a tour of the new Apple TV the operon system how it works and see if it's you know holds a candle to the older version whether or not it's worthwhile in the meantime let's go ahead and peel off the plastic bottoms got a bit of a rubber feel to it the Apple logo feels like it's a little bit soft touch rubber go ahead and peel off that plastic it's wondering where the ports were and that reveals the ports let's take a look at the ports on the new Apple TV and there are not many to look at you've got an Ethernet port but of course this has Wi-Fi you've got optical audio HDMI there is a micro USB port actually being used for diagnostic tests right now however that may have other uses in the future and the power cord and that is it this guy is very small let's just do a real quick size comparison with the new Apple TV versus the outgoing model of Apple TV and you'll see that this is really no comparison here size wise and thing is just miniscule so I'm gonna go ahead and set this up I will see you in the next video if you have any questions or things you want to see on the new Apple TV be sure to let me know I'm John Rhett endure from TechnoBuffalo I'll see you the next video buh-bye you you