(Clearly I hadn’t bought a movie for my old Apple TV in a while…) So I did a little online research and was painfully reminded that my first generation Apple TV can’t play full HD 1080p videos.Īnd today, all of Apple’s HD movies in iTunes are 1080p.
(And that’s when I began having a really bad feeling…) Then, I synced the 1977 classic to my old Apple TV and waited (not so patiently) for the Force to appear. (I know that purists would insist on purchasing the Blu-ray version… But I just didn’t have enough time to buy a physical copy.)
So I summoned iTunes on my iMac and figured a swift HD download of “Star Wars: A New Hope” would quickly fill the gap. Perhaps this version represented the original cut where ‘Greedo didn’t shoot first.’Īnyway… I threw it back in a drawer for another time.Īnother Problem with the Hyperdrive Engine I wondered why I still had the archaic tape lying around to begin with. I did locate a forgotten VHS copy, but trying to watch that would require its own MacGyver project getting the old tape to play on my HDTV. So I went looking for my copy of Episode 4, but I realized I’d never purchased a digital version of any of the Star Wars’ flicks. These three forces recently collided to create something of a tech crisis in my life.īefore taking my wife to see Episode 7, I wanted to offer her a little refresher on Luke, Han, Leia, Darth and the old gang. How do you create this imaginative screen saver for your TV? You just hand over your pictures and let your Apple TV do the rest…