This evening I went to watch a show on my AppleTV as I’ve done every night in the last week. I used my iPad to select the show and when I hit play nothing happened. I used ezDesktop to look at my Media Center and saw that iTunes was running fine. There were 2 possibilities; the AppleTV was confused or the Mac Mini needed a reboot. I browsed the shows on my iPad via the Videos app and started a show without problems which lead to only one possibility.
After a quick reboot of the AppleTV using the only method I could find (yanking the power plug), it came back and was able to watch the show.
Why did the AppleTV become confused? Why isn’t there a way to reboot the box without getting off the couch? I have no idea.
Hold the Down and Menu button for 6 seconds or until the white light flashes rapidly – let go and the box reboots – Magic 🙂
Finding the docs would have required me to actually do a search 🙂