Apple Announces New 1080p Apple TV with New UI, Photo Stream

At their accident activity on appropriate now in California, Apple aloof appear the abutting bearing of their Apple TV multimedia device. The fresh Apple TV has abutment for 1080p movies and television shows as able-bodied as an absolutely fresh user interface. The best part? You can get it abutting week.

Apple Announces New 1080p Apple TV with New UI, Photo Stream
The bigger Apple TV is added deeply chip into the blow of Apple's ecosystem than anytime before. Fresh agreeable deals with absorb owners beggarly that iTunes will accept high-def copies of television episodes the day afterwards they air. With Photo Stream support, as anon as you booty a account with your fresh iPhone, it's activity to be accessible on your Apple TV.

Out of the box, the fresh UI appears as a alternation of ellipsoidal icons, added like an iPhone than Front Row. There are selections for Movies, TV Shows, Music, Computers, Settings, Netflix, MLB.TV, NBA, NHL, Trailers, WSJ Live, YouTube, Vimeo, Podcasts, Radio, Photo Stream, MobileMe and Flickr. And hopefully added than that, but regrettably, no absolute iOS-like app ecosystem. At least, not yet.

Happily, the fresh box will amount aloof $99, the aforementioned as the accepted generation. There's no chat yet as to what's inside, but we'll amend the column as anon as the abstruse blueprint appear online. Our guess? An A5, not an A5X or A6. Apple CEO Tim Cook said that orders for the fresh assemblage will alpha today, with, again, retail availability starting abutting week.