In my process of tranferring my DVD collection to a digital media server I discovered that the Apple TV software is smarter than I thought.
I have been ripping my DVD collection using Handbrake on my Mac and transferring them to a Windows box which is shared out via my internal only network to the Apple TV using iTunes. I use the built-in Apple TV profile to do this. The profile sets the frame rate option on the encoder to be “Same As Source”. It turns out that if your rip has a final fps (frames per second) that is greater than 30 then the resulting movie will not be available in the list of Shared Movies on the Apple TV.
So apparently, the category logic, or lack thereof, of the App Store extends to the rest of the iTunes Store as well.
On the iTunes Store if you look at the category of music labeled Albums Under $7 you will find the Maroon 5 album The B-Side Collection. However, if you look at the category of music labeled Albums Under $9, you will not find the Maroon 5 album.
If an album is under $7 it would seem to me that it is also under $9.
This so doesn’t make any sense.
A friend of mine took this photo of the Apple Store Tokyo, during a recent trip.
