The Apple TV was launched at Macworld last year and was over shadowed by the big launch of the iPhone but it is back with a vengeance. I did a blog post a bit back about why I thought the Apple TV did not get the credit it deserved but now Apple have done a update “Apple TV Take 2″ now there is even more reason to get one. Personally I don’t like the new simpler UI I liked the old one with the scrolling images on the left. When the Apple TV first came out it had the ability to do HD but iTunes did not sell HD which was a bit of a shame because that meant you couldn’t really use the HD ability that well, so it might have well being a SD box.

Apple seem to now be focusing on giving us the option as to how we get your content such as the iTunes store, iTunes WiFi store and now we can buy from the Apple TV making the iTunes experience something that we don’t even think about we just do. Apple also offered us the ability to watch our Flickr and .Mac photos thought the Apple TV but to be honest I think this is a useless feature I would never use because if I want to look at photo’s I would use a computer it might be nice if you want to show photos to family but this opportunity really arise well for me. The Main feature I think of the Apple TV Take 2 is that there is no need to have a computer with iTunes this means that the Apple TV is standalone box and can be used even if you don’t have a computer but you can still sync you computer if you want.