Each video is about 150MB, which may be important if you’re using iPhone Personal Hotspot to share the internet connection with a Mac, or have strictly metered bandwidth. This means the videos are not downloaded to the Mac with the screen saver, instead they are streamed or served from cache. One thing worth noting is that by default the videos from these screen savers are streamed from Apple by requesting the appropriate HD movie from an Apple CDN using the appropriate URL from this json file on. If you really want to get fancy and you don’t mind the minor resource usage of doing so, you can set the screen savers as your desktop wallpaper in Mac OS X, which will give you a live background of sorts. Note some of these images have the optional clock enabled, a feature possible in all OS X screen savers.įor mac users with multiple displays (like myself), the screen saver will show a different aerial footage per display by default, but you can turn that off. The video demo and images below will give you a sample of what to expect from the Apple TV screen savers on the Mac, but you need to see these for yourself as live footage on your own screen, still shots and example video just do not compare to the real thing or do them justice. If you hit J or L a few times, the video will reverse or speed up by a factor for each press. L key will fast forward and speed up the videos.The Aerial screen saver is somewhat interactive as well with the following key presses: But they all look fantastic, so you may as well leave them all enabled and enjoy each individually. Or if you want to see everything but a specific NYC screen saver, you can do that too.
You can choose to enable or disable specific screen savers, so if you only want to see the outrageously beautiful shots of sea cliffs, valleys, clouds, and sunsets in Hawaii, then you can do that. Alternatively, you can install the screen saver manually by placing the appropriate file into the user or root /Library/Screen Savers/ directory. * You may need to right-click on the file and choose “Open” to get around Gatekeeper.
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