User:Maury Markowitz/Sandbox

A "Sleep" menu item. Identical to holding Play for three seconds, but much more obvious.
Option to accept CEC sleep/wake instructions, allowing it to sleep when the TV is turned off and/or a different input is selected.
Option to go into a low power mode after some time in the screen saver/screen off mode.
Option to have the "screen saver" turn off the display output. This allows TVs to turn off automatically.
Option to turn off the display output when playing non-video sources, which allows TV's to correctly auto-sense the inputs.

AirDisc support. This would make the ATV a viable DVD replacement while also causing a wave of BluRay purchases on the Mac as soon as that option became available.
AirBook SuperDrive support. This option, especially a Blu-Ray version, would be another way to turn the ATV into a "universal box".

The sound of whatever media is playing should be left playing until the user actually selects some other source.
- Currently it remains playing until you exit the Music menu. Instead, it should continue playing until the user presses stop/pause or selects some other source with audio.
A "play this next" feature would be extremely useful, allowing the user to queue up songs.
There is a "repeat" selection for music, but not for videos. This would be very useful in some cases.

Support subfolders in the Movies and TV Shows. Anyone with a reasonably large collection really needs this.
Add searching, with auto-complete, in every list. Anyone with a large collection needs this too.
Searching should be global... if the user is in the Music menu Search should look across all sources, they should not have to navigate to a particular source first.
Internet radio/iTunes radio station support deserves its own menu item.

Add iSync support to the ATV, and allow it to download/sync from cameras plugged into the USB port. For those users without a Mac or PC, this option would be extremely useful.
ATV should be able to "stream" photos as it does with music and video.
The slide-show should be able to span folders.
ATV should sync iTunes visualizers and use those in place of the current "flowers" screen saver.

Start iTunes downloads from any location; log in from your laptop or at work, and start a rental download to the ATV.
Share YouTube bookmarks with other iTunes devices like the iPhone or Mac.

HDMI pass-though, allowing the ATV to act as a switch for an AV stack.
Optionally genlock/chroma-key the inputs so they can appear live in the ATV menus.

CEC command pass-through (defined in the HDMI standard, so make sure it works!)
Option to turn on/off devices connected via HDMI depending on what input is selected.
- This would put DVD players to sleep if their input wasn't looked at for some period of time.