I've owned my AppleTV for a little over a year. I gave up trying to find a work-a-round to get it to go directly to Movies, Music, Photos etc. I never put my AppleTV into Standby and it has never frozen up on me.

I believe the work-a-round you are trying to build is almost impossible because you never know which sub menu it was left on. I love Apple products but Apple needs to get their crap together on the AppleTV and give the Custom Integrators discrete codes so they can integrate the AppleTV more effectively into projects.

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