Anything new in store for us AppleTV owners? [Archive]

opticalserenity

Jul 6, 2007, 03:55 AM

Its not been too long I suppose since we got the youtube update. But, I'd really like to see more.

Any ideas? I hope they don't forget about us thanks to the iPhone. I have both ,but I use my AppleTV everyday as well.

rwdebes

Jul 6, 2007, 04:47 AM

ahn ?

:confused:

hotinplaya

Jul 6, 2007, 11:24 AM

I would really like to see Joost streamed to the apple TV

pjac

Jul 6, 2007, 12:05 PM

For those of us in the UK (with a TV licence), a deal with the BBC for watching recent TV would be great :)

In fact, having BBC content on iTMS would be great too - all over the world.

opticalserenity

Jul 6, 2007, 03:33 PM

It just seems sometimes that the Apple TV gets put on a back burner.

gkarris

Jul 7, 2007, 11:35 AM

It just seems sometimes that the Apple TV gets put on a back burner.

iPhone...

Jestered

Jul 7, 2007, 12:34 PM

It just seems sometimes that the Apple TV gets put on a back burner.

I think S Jobs said already that the AppleTV has not been given the attention that it needs. He also said that it would soon. We all just have to wait and see what they do with it.

I want to know what is in store for the USB port on it. Currently it does absolutely nothing. They didn't put that on there for looks. It is there for a reason. A couple of uses could be... an external USB drive, a USB tuner (that would be awesome).

OldSkoolNJ

Jul 7, 2007, 01:22 PM

I think S Jobs said already that the AppleTV has not been given the attention that it needs. He also said that it would soon. We all just have to wait and see what they do with it.

I want to know what is in store for the USB port on it. Currently it does absolutely nothing. They didn't put that on there for looks. It is there for a reason. A couple of uses could be... an external USB drive, a USB tuner (that would be awesome).

It is there for diagnostics. This has been said mamny of times. There is no reason it would have to be otherwise. People just expect it to be. Using a common port for many reasons is very normal. I have a TV and also we sell many different brand TVs at work that use a USB port for diagnostics. SO it is not out of the realm of possibilities that is just that. However it is not out of the realm of possibilities that it can changed. I wouldnt mind seeing a Keyboard for using the search functions of you tube. However I would hope for something wireless.

Kevin

Nicolasdec

Jul 7, 2007, 02:10 PM

i would like to see:

RSS feed
E-mails
Joost
Internet (Maybe)
Alarm Clock

kuebby

Jul 7, 2007, 03:23 PM

i would like to see:

RSS feed
E-mails
Joost
Internet (Maybe)
Alarm Clock

All of that is easy and possible. Probably by the end of the year we'll have all of that plus some stuff we didn't even know we wanted yet.

localoid

Jul 7, 2007, 05:22 PM

My wish list:

1. Holodeck
2. Replicator
3. Warp Drive
4. Tricorder
5. Phaser
6. Easy integration and full compatibility with Flying Car

Nicolasdec

Jul 7, 2007, 05:48 PM

All of that is easy and possible. Probably by the end of the year we'll have all of that plus some stuff we didn't even know we wanted yet.

I hope so, bicuase apple abandoned the apple tv and put all resources on the iphone. :mad: :mad:

imlucid

Jul 7, 2007, 06:12 PM

I hope so, bicuase apple abandoned the apple tv and put all resources on the iphone.
How can you say that? The Apple TV just came out a few months ago and put out an update a couple of weeks ago.
Did you expect Apple to put out a 2.0 version of the product already?
:confused:

Kevin

Nicolasdec

Jul 7, 2007, 06:20 PM

How can you say that? The Apple TV just came out a few months ago and put out an update a couple of weeks ago.
Did you expect Apple to put out a 2.0 version of the product already?
:confused:

Kevin

Well, they aredy have introduced an 160GB version, also its been out for 5 months and all they have done is added Youtube. hope more things will come, its such a great device.

Sir Hobos

Jul 7, 2007, 09:46 PM

Remember all those rumors of the mac mini being discontinued? Well...
What if, and this may be a big IF, they move the mac mini into the living room like many have done before? And by this I mean they sell a bluetooth/dvd/hd dvd/blueray/all of those in one device to connect to the apple TV? With this you would be able to utilize the apple TV like a striped down computer; surf the internet, check mail, purchase and edit your iTunes account, play old school games, etc. All of this could be done with the bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Don't expect to be doing photoshop with this little thing though, the 256MB of ram is limiting it from doing anything a G4 could do. They could save memory by redesigning the os that is on the iPhone for the apple TV. OMG why don't they allow the iPhone and apple TV to talk together via WiFi? your iPhone could be the keyboard and mouse!

SamMiller0

Jul 8, 2007, 11:38 AM

rwdebes

Jul 8, 2007, 04:47 PM

My wish list:

1. Holodeck
2. Replicator
3. Warp Drive
4. Tricorder
5. Phaser
6. Easy integration and full compatibility with Flying Car

i like this wish list.. :p

Nicolasdec

Jul 8, 2007, 04:53 PM

I would also like to see some games. :)

kjr39

Jul 9, 2007, 09:28 AM

Well, they aredy have introduced an 160GB version, also its been out for 5 months and all they have done is added Youtube. hope more things will come, its such a great device.

Yeah, I am in wait-and-see mode at the moment to see how well this device gets supported. I have had .mac for awhile now and it is always a "there will be more soon" attitude towards it. I am hoping that the AppleTV is not the same...

Nicolasdec

Jul 9, 2007, 02:22 PM

Yeah, I am in wait-and-see mode at the moment to see how well this device gets supported. I have had .mac for awhile now and it is always a "there will be more soon" attitude towards it. I am hoping that the AppleTV is not the same...

Exactly that the "things will come" attitude.

Scarpad

Jul 9, 2007, 04:13 PM

For those of us in the UK (with a TV licence), a deal with the BBC for watching recent TV would be great :)

In fact, having BBC content on iTMS would be great too - all over the world.

Yes a Legitimate way to Get Dr. Who and Torchwood would be nice.

Vanilla

Jul 9, 2007, 07:21 PM

I would LOVE to see Joost on AppleTV, that would be perfect.
Vanilla

Nicolasdec

Jul 10, 2007, 02:50 AM

I would LOVE to see Joost on AppleTV, that would be perfect.
Vanilla

Yes, that would be the best. but i dont think it will come.

TuckBodi

Jul 11, 2007, 02:36 AM

Yes, that would be the best. but i dont think it will come.

Huh? It's already almost here:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Joost

Stopping Joost only seems to be the issue right now which I'm sure Apple could figure out.

Nicolasdec

Jul 11, 2007, 02:47 AM

Huh? It's already almost here:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Joost

Stopping Joost only seems to be the issue right now which I'm sure Apple could figure out.

Hope apple will add joost, it would make the :apple: TV even better.

neven

Jul 11, 2007, 01:00 PM

Look, Apple will never bring Joost or anything like it to AppleTV. You might think it would be cool, it might "make sense", but it ain't happening. Apple has no interest in TV programming outside of iTunes. Completely different business models and technologies, very limited mainstream appeal, no attraction at all for Steve and other "idea people" at Apple.

You might as well hope Apple will team up with MythTV.

williedigital

Jul 11, 2007, 02:49 PM

airport express ability would be cool. It seems kind of dumb that the device can't do that. Otherwise, just more ways to configure the way you view files. I'd like to be able to sort movies by year for example, or genre.

nlivo

Jul 11, 2007, 08:12 PM

apple is awesome at partnering with companies and i can see them partening with elgato so you can plug your elgato eyetv into the appletv and record programs...imagine apple's software, they would make it so easy and sexy.......let's knock tiVo out of the living room!!!!

korndog2003

Jul 12, 2007, 12:22 PM

For those of us in the UK (with a TV licence), a deal with the BBC for watching recent TV would be great :)

In fact, having BBC content on iTMS would be great too - all over the world.

whats a bbc?

Cloudsurfer

Jul 12, 2007, 12:34 PM

If AppleTV gets a disc drive to read DVD video, I'm sold.

banjomamo

Jul 12, 2007, 01:18 PM

whats a bbc?

Beast on Beast Combat :D

LeviG

Jul 12, 2007, 02:08 PM

I'd like the ability to show keynote presentations, think it would appeal to a larger business market and add the ability to add additional codecs from the source computer. Joost streaming wouldn't go a miss either.

ibookowner2005

Jul 13, 2007, 05:34 AM

whats a bbc?

In the UK, the "BBC" is basically a TV channel. It stands for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

When Apple provide TV show downloads for the UK, it will almost certainty include the BBC... its very British.

People in the USA have already seen TV shows from the BBC on NBC. "The Office" was broadcasted first on the BBC and adapted for you americans.

Hope that sums it up! :)

pjac

Jul 13, 2007, 07:29 AM

In the UK, the "BBC" is basically a TV channel. It stands for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

When Apple provide TV show downloads for the UK, it will almost certainty include the BBC... its very British.
I wouldn't count on it - but it would be really great if Apple got involved for the Mac equivalent of the currently Windows only BBC iPlayer (link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/06_june/27/iplayer.shtml)) and made it all play nice with Apple TV.

P.S. This engadet article (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/07/06/bbcs-iplayer-to-work-on-iphone/) has got my hopes of an Apple TV version of the BBC iPlayer up a bit...

Apple Architect

Jul 14, 2007, 12:04 PM

In the UK, the "BBC" is basically a TV channel. It stands for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

When Apple provide TV show downloads for the UK, it will almost certainty include the BBC... its very British.

People in the USA have already seen TV shows from the BBC on NBC. "The Office" was broadcasted first on the BBC and adapted for you americans.

Hope that sums it up! :)

Actually the BBC is the worlds largest broadcaster (based on what metric I am not sure, but it was in the Media Guardian last week).

The BBC has recently being pushing to produce more global content and are at the cutting edge of HD content production. The fantastic "Planet Earth" series that aired in the US with Signorey Weaver voiceover was a joint production with the BBC.

You may also have seen Walking with Dinosaurs, Doctor Who, Top Gear, numerous drama's based on classic novels and of course teletubbies.

mrfrosty

Jul 14, 2007, 02:23 PM

Actually the BBC is the worlds largest broadcaster (based on what metric I am not sure, but it was in the Media Guardian last week).

You may also have seen Walking with Dinosaurs, Doctor Who, Top Gear, numerous drama's based on classic novels and of course teletubbies.

Don't forget to 'not mention the war' too :-)

i like this wish list.. :p

That wish list was a poorly thought out disgrace to wish lists. NO wish list is complete unless it contains a time machine and an invisibility button on your watch.

emozolik

Jul 15, 2007, 12:15 AM

If AppleTV gets a disc drive to read DVD video, I'm sold.

Couldnt agree more. This is my number one gripe. Currently looking at the Mac Mini to fill the void (and im crossing my fingers while I wait, as i hope its not being discontinued). Someone mentioned the mac mini becoming the Apple TV 2.0 or something, which would be cool, but something i sortof doubt.

MACaBAMA

Jul 15, 2007, 02:39 AM

I would like to see some better integration with Bonjour networking, especially with the iPhone available now. It would be cool if my Apple TV could detect my iPhone and allow it to stream music.

It would also be nice if you could control the Apple TV with an iPhone via bluetooth, though I'm not sure how practical that is.

AMEN!!!!! I havent gotten TV yet because I can't do what I want to do. I have multiple rooms in my house wired as a second zone to my Receiver. I want a iPod or a iPhone that I can use with TV to control it. That way when I am on patio grilling I can change songs without walking back into the house.