What's the other one? NFL? If it is, DirectTV just announced that you can buy their Sunday Ticket without being a subscriber. You can then watch games on your iOS device.
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Why All this Hype for the "iTV"?
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What's the other one? NFL? If it is, DirectTV just announced that you can buy their Sunday Ticket without being a subscriber. You can then watch games on your iOS device.
A lot of people here are making ASSUMPTIONS that iTV will have things like Hulu, Netflix and MLB.tv. NONE of which are confirmed and in fact...all of serious huddles to cross before they would be available as an app on the iTV.
We'll see what they say next week, if this stuff is included for FREE, it may be compelling...otherwise I will stick with the HTPC in which I already get all of this for free...
We'll see what they say next week, if this stuff is included for FREE, it may be compelling...otherwise I will stick with the HTPC in which I already get all of this for free...
If it can play my multichannel m4v files at 1080p for a hundred bucks it's an automatic buy. (mkv is probably too much to ask for.) The apps and media partnerships and $0.99 rentals and clever control scheme I think they're working on but no one knows about and all the rest are just icing.
take this with a grain of salt but, I was at my local Apple store today and i heard two of the managers talking about a customer. They were referring to his Apple TV as iTV. "So-and-so brought his iTV in because it's having a problem" or something to that extent. I know the retail staff does not get wind of new products ahead of time, usually, but just wanted to throw this piece of info out there.
That's EyeTV. Unless you're referring to Apple being silly to call their product after another wildly popular Mac product.
We all know this new device won't be called iTV. Be interesting what they do call it though.
I don't know about you, but my HDTV is a liiiiitle bit bigger than my iPhone's screen. Using apps, and playing lots of really cheap games on a big screen, without having to worry about battery life, on a big screen with quality speakers is a big plus.
Of course, I'm still a bit confused how it's going to work - an iPhone/iTouch as the input device? Would apps then be unusable by someone without an iPhone? Or perhaps it would work with a magic trackpad? I'm confused..
What's the other one? NFL? If it is, DirectTV just announced that you can buy their Sunday Ticket without being a subscriber. You can then watch games on your iOS device.
Right. And there's always high-def rabbit ears for local broadcasts.
easy.
1. Price
2. speed (my apple tv is sooo slow)
3. iOS (Jailbreaking, Games, apps, constantly updated)
all these things make the "iTV" a no brainer. I was going to get a mac mini but $700 is a lot to swallow. I love my apple tv but its slow and kind of a pain in the ass to navigate and its kind of apples forgotten product never gets an update if it does it minor stuff.
1. Price
2. speed (my apple tv is sooo slow)
3. iOS (Jailbreaking, Games, apps, constantly updated)
all these things make the "iTV" a no brainer. I was going to get a mac mini but $700 is a lot to swallow. I love my apple tv but its slow and kind of a pain in the ass to navigate and its kind of apples forgotten product never gets an update if it does it minor stuff.
True and that OTA broadcast always looks better than the cable version anyways. The only problem would trying to get the Big Ten network...I need to see my Nittany Lions!
Wirelessly posted (iPhone 4: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A400 Safari/6531.22.7)
New.
New.
What aristobrat was saying is that macnewbie13 could have heard eyeTV and mistakenly thought they heard iTV. They sound fairly close.
There are so many excellent News / Weather / Info / Food etc. apps available, I would probably pay $99 just for a device that permanently connects to my tv that could use them all...
This from someone whose user namer is "Steve Jobs=God". lol
Are you saying that God dropped the ball on this one? BLASPHEMER!
Apple TV (itv) update not to be announced now?
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/news/a268406/apple-rethinks-major-apple-tv-relaunch.html
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/news/a268406/apple-rethinks-major-apple-tv-relaunch.html
You wouldn't be able to get the Thursday night games later in the season which are on the NFL channel, nor the Monday night games on ESPN. but all the local Sunday games will work.
Netflix or Hulu apps, or any of the network apps to view streaming programming for free? Weather or news feeds?
None of this makes any sense for you on your TV?
I would agree that some apps won't work on a non-touch interface, but there is a lot of stuff that will fit beautifully.
I'm right there with you - my Roku HD XR box is working fine for baseball, but if aTV(iTV?) allows iOS type apps such as MLB and Hulu, it's all over.
My sticking point was PBS Kids shows, but I had a moment of clarity on that as well - just buy a season or two of PBS kids shows (they're usually cheap, and kids don't care about HD vs. SD) in iTunes and have them available - voila - cord cut.