i2DVDBox?

[MacRumors]

ZDNet UK (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2098985,00.html) has a Comdex 2001 preview and has this interseting quote:

Apple's i2DVDBox combines Internet, DVD, MP3, and even interactive television technologies, all in one device. The i2DVD Box offers all the same features as a conventional DVD, including digital Dolby and composite and s-video outputs. The digital outputs are both optical and coaxial for compatibility with other home entertainment devices.

A typo? or simply misinformation...

[menoinjun]

Wow!! That's weird!! Sounds like a great device, but if it's true, we should see it taken off of that article within the next day or two. Apple would be really pissed!

-Pete

Where's the firewire connectivity??

[Edited by ptrauber on 11-09-2001 at 11:10 PM]

[SPG]

I remember there was some German site that was showing something not too different from this right before iPod was announced.
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[pwrst2]

Sorry guys, hate to break up the party, but I did a Google search on "idvd" and "box", and got this URL:
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/bsnstore/51140.html
It's exactly what ZDNET described, but obviously not from Apple. Too bad though, it could have been great.

[SPG]

Doh!
I also remember that the German site was talking about a hard drive equipped device more similar to Tivo, but also acting like a server via airport for your iTunes.
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[rekras]

i dont believe it... to far from computers, and apple doesnt simply let information like that get out

[MrMacMan]

That would be the weirdest thing I've ever heard oF!!!! Dvd player, mp3 player plus internet = Screwed up macheine

[mikedman]

posted this in hardware a little while ago.

company that makes the i2dvd is Lafayette

[mikedman]

here is a link to the site
http://www.idvdbox.com/i2dvd.html

[iwantanewmac]

How the hell can 1 watch a movie listen to mp3's AND the surf the net at the same time?
genettically modified people with 3 sets of eyes?

[benmac]

It's surely a little mistake by the journalist who wrote that article.

[mymemory]

Originally posted by iwantanewmac
How the hell can 1 watch a movie listen to mp3's AND the surf the net at the same time?
genettically modified people with 3 sets of eyes?

Correction, 2 sets of eyes, 2 sets of ears and a very sofisticated brain. All you need in that unit is a hard drive and there you got a computer.

[iwantanewmac]

The ad says 1 can do it at the same time.
I can't

[benmac]

Mac Os Rumors kind of confirms the rumor too.

[rickag]

Throw in airport and different devices in different rooms in the house could be enjoying different media or the same media. TV, stereo, games, internet, etc. :D

[MrMacMan]

Yup the accual product is as bad as how you can possible do all three things at the same time.

[sparkleytone]

not an apple product...end of thread. please.

[Ensign Paris]

I would love to see a 19" (Standard Hifi Width) version of the iPod with Airport to my Mac. With Digital outputs to my Hifi.

Thanks,
Guy

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by sparkleytone
not an apple product...end of thread. please.
So what if is not an apple product, it still sounds good!

[Nonsanity]

The source the link takes you to is now corrected.

No mention on Apple anymore.

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~ Chris