By now you know that I’m a huge fan of all things Apple.

That said I’m running two Apple TVs in our house and love watching almost everything on demand and without commercials these days. (My wife and I just finished watching Season 2 and 3 of Heroes going for 4-5 episodes in a row each evening – it’s fantastic experiencing such a brilliant TV series like a full-length movie.)

A couple of weeks ago when trying to push new content to one of our Apple TVs we occasionally ran into this much hated much reported issue with iTunes stating:

“The Apple TV is not responding. Check that any firewall software running on this computer has been set to allow communication on port 3689.”

We are running iTunes 9.0.2 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 and the latest 3.0.1 Apple TV firmware. [Read more...]