Apple TV questions.

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I bought an AppleTV last week, sort of spur of the moment but it's something I'd been thinking about for a while and the opportunity arose so I just went for it.

I'm not syncing a huge amount of content to it just yet but am using it to connect to my iTunes library so I'm working like mad with VisualHub to convert stuff to a suitable format and that's going well.

What's annoying me slightly is the cover art though. I've been saving images with a transparent background in .png format and applying them to the TV Shows and movies that I've got in my iTunes.

When I scroll through the items on the AppleTV, sometimes the transparency works but other times it changes and the transparent parts appear as bright white which is a bit offputting and annoying considering the time I spent sorting the images out.

The other question is regarding time - How long should it take from me adding stuff in iTunes to the AppleTV picking it up? I've turned the box off and back on again but it still seems to take a while before it notices any changes. I know I've got nothing set to sync out to the AppleTV but will just hitting sync and forcing the two to talk do the job?

It's the image thing that's annoying me most though.

Anyone had this problem and or know a fix for it? I don't really want to have to save down to .gif for the transparency to work but I will if I absolutely have to

 

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I have solved the problems, transparent images are not handled very well so the best way to do it is just to have the image with a black background instead of a transparent one so it blends in with the black AppleTV background and yes, one does need to hit 'sync' just to force the iTunes and the AppleTV to communicate.