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We are proud owners of an Apple TV. It’s very cool. It just works. Think of it as an iPod for your TV.

I plugged it in about three years ago and it just synchronized with my mac downloading our movies and media so that we can watch them on our tv in the living room, and there it has been there ever since. I ran the updates when the thing would come up and say download updates, but it over the weekend it died, annoyingly just as we decided to watch a film on iTunes that we had rented. I went to the Apple store to speak to a Genius who was actually very heplful and said “it’s broken” it seems that the disk has gone on its holidays.

It no longer lives, well it does, it’s currently in bits on my office floor in the bladewatch labs, where I tried to fix it by replacing my failed disk.

I did get all technical, I checked out a few blogs with commands and even a youtube video showing you how to fix it, but after a few hours of arguing with my mac (which didn’t like some of the commands), I decided it’s time to say goodbye to Apple TV, time for recycling, before it and I fall out any more with it – lets just have the happy viewing memories.

This has results in quite a decision going forward, what do I do going forward?

• Buy a new Apple TV – I feel kind of jaded about how long it lasted, is that unreasonable?
• Fix my old Apple TV – but how long before it sits flashing orange lights at me again?
• Buy a Mac Mini - but then which one and I don’t seem to get a remote with it?

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