There's a lot more you can do with the Apple TV remote. The iPhone/iPad Remote app makes text entry much easier, and all the apps are handy if you don't have your hardware remote within reach. There's an Apple TV remote app for iPhone and iPad on the App Store - and one built into the Apple Watch! - so you can also control all your media right from all of your devices. You'll want to do this if you have more than one Apple TV so as to avoid conflicts. Press and hold Left + Menu to unpair the remote.

Press and hold Right + Menu for 5 seconds to pair the remote to a specific Apple TV. (It'll do it automatically when it senses lack of activity for a prolonged period.) Pair/unpair Press and hold Play/Pause for 5 seconds to put your Apple TV into standby mode. (This saves you having to get up and unplug/replug to 'fix' things like lost network connection or missing services.) Sleep Press and hold Down + Menu for 6 seconds to restart your Apple TV. Press and hold Select for two seconds to bring up accented characters and then press Pause/Play to choose the one you want. Press Pause/Play when entering text to switch between alpha, numeric, and symbol keyboards. Press and hold down Select while in iTunes TV shows to mark all or individual episodes as watched or unwatched. (If the video doesn't use chapters, you'll skip 30 seconds or 1/20th of the video length, whichever is longer.) Mark episodes

Press Left to jump back a chapter and Right to jump forward a chapter. Press Play again to resume normal viewing.

Press Pause and then press and hold Left or Right to rewind or go forward in slow motion. Press Pause and then press Left or Right to rewind or go forward in slow motion. Press Right repeatedly to alternate between slow, medium, and fast forward speeds. Press Right to fast forward continuously. Press and hold Right to fast forward for 30 seconds. Press Left repeatedly to alternate between slow, medium, and fast rewind speeds. This is Cloud Atlas's allure and it enjoys playing with us, constantly hinting at the point of it all: Is it about reincarnation, transmigration, cosmic karma, big fat coincidences? Take your pick.Press and hold Left to rewind 30 seconds. The easiest way to solve a jigsaw puzzle is to start with the edges in a film of seemingly unrelated stories the 'edges' are the theme - figure that out and the film will reveal its charms. Hanks, Berry, Sturgess, Broadbent, Grant, Hugo Weaving, Ben Whishaw and Susan Sarandon contribute to some, and sometimes all, stories in different guises. Among these stories is a bisexual musician serving as an amanuensis to a grouchy old composer in the 1930s, an investigative reporter unearths some shenanigans with a nuclear company in 1973 San Francisco and there's an interview with a rebel before she's sent to her death in 2144. Cloud Atlas opens with Tom Hanks mumbling incoherently into a campfire (a problem as his story goes on) before launching headlong into the six stories that will take up nearly three hours. Some movies you just have to go with it and Jim Broadbent's opening narration implores you to here: 'Extend your patience for just a moment and you will find there is method in this madness.' This is crucial: can you extend your patience for 172 minutes (as all is revealed right at the end) and, while there may be method in the madness, was it worth it? Adapting David Mitchell's award winning sci-fi/fantasy/drama was a mammoth undertaking and while it's great to see Big Money thrown at something this bonkers, the visually impressive multiple plotlines fail to click on an emotional level.

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