An Apple TV that essentially converts your existing set into a giant iPad, that you run all your devices (Cable box, Bluray...) from your iOS device.
The first already exists. It's called Airplay
The second needs buy in from the device makers.
An Apple TV that essentially converts your existing set into a giant iPad, that you run all your devices (Cable box, Bluray...) from your iOS device.
I wont be interested if its 60". That's just stupid. They need about 4 different models:
32" 36" 42" and 48"
Any bigger and its no longer a TV, it's a cinema.
In an ideal world we wouldn't have channels at all. There's no need for them. Just have shows that are all on demand. Much better IMO.
I like to have my TV mounted on the wall, flush, no cables, boxes, garbage. Like a animated picture frame on the wall. And a set top box screws it all up for me.
Ditto!
Our last TV was purchased about 5 years ago, and it's still going strong. If there's nothing wrong with it, it doesn't get replaced. You'd be a fool to buy a new TV just for the sake of it. They really dont change enough to warrant purchasing a new one.
I've never understood this. IF you've got it fixed to the wall in the way you describe, you'll be cranking your neck to look above the fireplace, and will be getting a big ass glare from the light on the ceiling :/
Obviously this will depend on your house, but typically I cant see that working, it'd be way too high up.
Apple would/should release a radically redesigned iTV before ever entering the actual TV market. An Apple TV that essentially converts your existing set into a giant iPad, that you run all your devices (Cable box, Bluray...) from your iOS device. They are so close now I just don't understand why they don't finish the job. The Apple TV right now is half baked.
I guess it depends where in the world you live. I know of loads of people with TV's that are around 32-38" and only 1 who has a 50". Houses in the UK aren't big enough for massive TV's they just look stupidly out of place.
I wont be interested if its 60". That's just stupid. They need about 4 different models:
32" 36" 42" and 48"
Any bigger and its no longer a TV, it's a cinema.
Guaranteed Apple has already rolled up their sleeves on the hardware for this. Sharp will be the ones to partake with the display fo' sho'!!!
The negotiations with Comcast, Verizon & all other companies alike are what is holding the Apple iTV back from production. The market still isn't there for an Apple iTV, because well, the cable co's won't allow it.
The way Apple iTV becomes a mainstay is simply due 'data speed/connectivity' issues.
No matter what, there will be an Apple iTV... it's just a matter of when. I'm hoping Apple & the large cable co's will negotiate their pricing/business model soon, and we could see an Apple iTV in the next couple years. If not, we won't see one till Fiber Optics have blanketed many markets, so the data speeds are near that 150-300meg range(viable for Apple iTV features/function set).
2014 will be the year we know which way Apple is headed for an iTV... 2013 is all about pushin' the wallet to the side for NFC & bio-metric thumb scanning.
I agree with this. My parents house is pretty big and they just bought a 46 inch TV. It's the biggest TV I've ever actually seen in someone's house and it is MASSIVE. The other TV is 30 inches and I'd say that's a pretty average size here.
I agree with almost everything he envisions except for one thing. That putting "1tb to 3tb" of storage either in the set top box or the tv itself. Why would apple do that? They have been on a mission to move everything into the cloud. The first generation Apple TV had a lot of onboard storage, then they introduced the 2nd and 3rd generation Apple TV that was only designed to work off the "cloud". I really don't think apple will go backwards and put that much onboard storage into one of these future devices. They will mend this into the "cloud".
I agree. I've currently got a 32" and I could probably squeeze in a 37" but anything bigger would be too much for my living room.
I won't be interested if it's under 55".
I can never see the point of tiny flatscreens as our TVs are always in the corner of the room. It's much more social and doesn't make the room feel like the TV is the only thing there. It's called a living room not a TV room.
Obviously I can see that some people would have a 'TV room' and I can see the benefit of having a TV be the focal point but I just think wall mounting is silly.
Plus you can only have the tv being optimal for 1 or 2 people as everyone else would be at an angle anyway! seems silly in my eyes.
At the end of the day, there's still the problem of there being hardly anything worth watching.
Wall mounting is SILLY!?? What century are you living in!?? This is 2012... and flatscreens 1 inch thick are for what?... putting in the corner!? Ehhhh... you got to be kidding me!? If you place it in the corner, you might as well make it as in the "good old days" with a 60 cm deep back to fill up the space behind it! I personally freed up about 3 m2 of my living room (and no need for a tv furniture to lift the thing from the ground!) when I mounted it on the wall like a picture frame!
Again, "Apple TV" not "iTV" - thats a name that has been taken for over 58 years.
If you are debating about the name right now, you must also be a loyal fan to Obummer.
Name doesn't mean squat at this moment... it's all about market opportunity & marginalized profits that Apple is striving for.
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Just as crap as the current formfactor
Do they realy expexct this thing to staynin the same place and look good with all these cables comming out of it?
My quality HDMI cable puls this thing of my furniture in a second
WE NEED FULL FLEDGED FORM FACTOR MADE OF ALLUMINUM WITH SOME WEIGHT!!
Yeah, and at a $150 price point? As if we've seen anything with a Thuderbolt port at anywhere near that price.Connectivity to what?