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40 GB Apple TV Shipping Date Slips, Leads to Speculation of Updates Next Week
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I would dearly love for appletv to morph into a Home Server that was brain dead simple to use and just worked. A way to easily, seamlessly share photos, movies, music across our home computers and also be able to broadcast to our TV would be absolute heaven. The ability to multi-stream content would also be fabulous.
Honestly a Home Media Server has been needed for an absolute age, its about time we got it in the mix.
Vanilla
Honestly a Home Media Server has been needed for an absolute age, its about time we got it in the mix.
Vanilla
You might as well get used to it. This will *never* happen. It's outside of Apple's hands.
Quite apart from the fact that there'd be nothing stopping you from ripping every film your rent from Blockbusters or Netflix, and those you borrow from your mates, the simple fact is that RealNetworks can tell you exactly how such a move would pan out for Apple.
its no different from ripping an audio cd...if anyone has the position of power to make this happen then its apple tbh, even if they then add drm to the ripped file so it can only be played on devices authorised with the rippers iTunes account.
Alrighty. You heard it hear first.
AppleTV revision: Now an actual TV with a Mac built inside of it. Sound familiar? Indeed it is! It's now a giant iMac, except built specifically for TV uses! Comes in LED backlit 40-inch, 46-inch, etc., in a giant aluminum enclosure. The best TV in the world! The AppleTV!
Specs:
3 HDMI inputs
2 component video inputs
1 audio out
1 Apple remote
1 Bluetooth keyboard + mouse
I called it. But wouldn't it be cool if Apple actually entered the TV market like that? It would be a "true" AppleTV!
AppleTV revision: Now an actual TV with a Mac built inside of it. Sound familiar? Indeed it is! It's now a giant iMac, except built specifically for TV uses! Comes in LED backlit 40-inch, 46-inch, etc., in a giant aluminum enclosure. The best TV in the world! The AppleTV!
Specs:
3 HDMI inputs
2 component video inputs
1 audio out
1 Apple remote
1 Bluetooth keyboard + mouse
I called it. But wouldn't it be cool if Apple actually entered the TV market like that? It would be a "true" AppleTV!
exactly. And allows apple to take over the TV industry. Mad Man in canada is ONLY available on iTMS - no channel gets it anymore, a deal the content creator decided on. now they see direct revenue from their creation, just like app store coders do.
Alrighty. You heard it hear first.
AppleTV revision: Now an actual TV with a Mac built inside of it. Sound familiar? Indeed it is! It's now a giant iMac, except built specifically for TV uses! Comes in LED backlit 40-inch, 46-inch, etc., in a giant aluminum enclosure. The best TV in the world! The AppleTV!
Specs:
3 HDMI inputs
2 component video inputs
1 audio out
1 Apple remote
1 Bluetooth keyboard + mouse
I called it. But wouldn't it be cool if Apple actually entered the TV market like that? It would be a "true" AppleTV!
nope, not cool. I don't need another TV. This box as I envision it would be great though!
Blu-Ray is basically dying on the vine. It never caught on like either VHS or DVD for the mainstream consumer market. Please note I'm talking about Blu-Ray not HD. Digital Downloads and Digital Streaming is really picking up steam. To the point where Blu-Ray players are adding the ability to stream and download content.
Both Microsoft and Apple are going in the Download/Stream delivery of content instead of Blu-Ray.
Was just getting ready to buy another ATV.
I wanted to hack it to run Leopard (or Snow Leopard if the Hackint0sh.org guys get that running) so I could add my EyeTV Hybrid, Turbo.264, and external DVD-DL burner and turn it into a cheaper entertainment Mac rather than dropping $579 on a MacMini.
I'm hoping they update the OS so that I could use my EyeTV Hybrid and DVD player, but I'm not holding my breath.
It would also be nice if they finally updated FrontRow along with this refresh. FrontRow has been crap ever since they "updated" the interface. TV shows are haphazardly arranged with seasons out of order and everything lumped into one huge list with the same TV show name listed over and over and over for each season. I'm surprised Jobs lets these small things go for so long (same with the ****** compression progress bar that was broken the whole time Leopard was out).
I wanted to hack it to run Leopard (or Snow Leopard if the Hackint0sh.org guys get that running) so I could add my EyeTV Hybrid, Turbo.264, and external DVD-DL burner and turn it into a cheaper entertainment Mac rather than dropping $579 on a MacMini.
I'm hoping they update the OS so that I could use my EyeTV Hybrid and DVD player, but I'm not holding my breath.
It would also be nice if they finally updated FrontRow along with this refresh. FrontRow has been crap ever since they "updated" the interface. TV shows are haphazardly arranged with seasons out of order and everything lumped into one huge list with the same TV show name listed over and over and over for each season. I'm surprised Jobs lets these small things go for so long (same with the ****** compression progress bar that was broken the whole time Leopard was out).
It is though since there's no license for CD playback/extraction. CDs are the reason why DVDs are encrypted, and why the license is so aggressively enforced.
Apple have to abide by the DVD license. They don't get to make up the rules here.
Even so, that doesn't stop you ripping rented or borrowed movies, which is why Apple would never be allowed to do it.
my DVr costs me $10 a month and I can add an external drive if I wanted to. Why pay apple per episode?
That would be an amazing update, and I'd actually want an
TV with those capabilities. I don't think it's going to happen though. Apple's whole model is content delivery through the itunes store. Adding a PVR to TV is totally at odds with that.I'm not saying I agree with apple on this one - quite the opposite, in fact. I'd rather just watch tv or record it and delete it when done than buy all my content and keep it on a hard drive forever. So the current
TV paradigm is pretty much useless for me... but I don't see apple abandoning it.
Sold my AppleTV a while ago. Apple is really missing the boat on this.
My $170 Samsung Bluray player streams Netflix and Pandora. Netflix is $20 a month for mailed disks and streaming.
There are already Netflix enabled TVs shipping. Apple is not a leader like they were with the iPod. Very competitive market for video.
My $170 Samsung Bluray player streams Netflix and Pandora. Netflix is $20 a month for mailed disks and streaming.
There are already Netflix enabled TVs shipping. Apple is not a leader like they were with the iPod. Very competitive market for video.
wrong. Cable providers want money however they can get it. and with 3G/4G, ADSL, and internet over powerline, there are lots of options for delivery. besides, net neutrality is on the docket after healthcare for 2010 anyway.
like mad men in canada? It's the #1 show on television - it could have gone anywhere! they dropped broadcast altogether.
the movie store started with a few studios, now everyone is there. This will be the same deal.
Meh, I'd like to see a total redesign - use the iPod Touch internals minus all the sensors, screen, etc, with a faster CPU and the ability to decode 1080p content at 15Mb/s. Throw 8GB of flash in there for OS and streaming temporary storage. Have it always stream.
They should be able to get FrontRow working on ARM if they've got half of OSX on ARM with the iPhone OS.
They should be able to get FrontRow working on ARM if they've got half of OSX on ARM with the iPhone OS.
Atv
the ATV is easy to use, elegant etc but they've got to do something other than a storage bump to have any chance for it to ever become a big success.
I just bought the new PS3 to be my DVD/blu ray player and to play a few games (my last game console was the first PS). I didn't even realize that I could connect an external drive and/or stream movies from my other computers when I ordered it. I've plugged a 1TB external drive into it that I had plugged into my Airport Extreme filled with all my DVDs ripped at full size and it's fantastic.
Apple also needs to open it up to play more formats of video files. I know they want you to buy the videos from iTunes, but I think they lose potential customers who may buy the occasional video but want to play there own videos without having to convert.
the ATV is easy to use, elegant etc but they've got to do something other than a storage bump to have any chance for it to ever become a big success.
I just bought the new PS3 to be my DVD/blu ray player and to play a few games (my last game console was the first PS). I didn't even realize that I could connect an external drive and/or stream movies from my other computers when I ordered it. I've plugged a 1TB external drive into it that I had plugged into my Airport Extreme filled with all my DVDs ripped at full size and it's fantastic.
Apple also needs to open it up to play more formats of video files. I know they want you to buy the videos from iTunes, but I think they lose potential customers who may buy the occasional video but want to play there own videos without having to convert.
Alrighty. You heard it hear first.
AppleTV revision: Now an actual TV with a Mac built inside of it. Sound familiar? Indeed it is! It's now a giant iMac, except built specifically for TV uses! Comes in LED backlit 40-inch, 46-inch, etc., in a giant aluminum enclosure. The best TV in the world! The AppleTV!
Specs:
3 HDMI inputs
2 component video inputs
1 audio out
1 Apple remote
1 Bluetooth keyboard + mouse
I called it. But wouldn't it be cool if Apple actually entered the TV market like that? It would be a "true" AppleTV!
Not happening, few reasons:
•HDTV business have huge competition and very low profit margins
•most people would update their AppleTV faster than their TV sets, so I built in solution would not make any sense.
•large HDTV sets demand huge amount of warehouse space, transportation costs and also it would take a lot of space out of Apple retail stores
•Lots of people already own new HDTV sets and are not looking to purchase another TV just to get AppleTV.
Not that I'm prepared to put money on it, but I'd be a little surprised if the ATV doesn't get bumped to some SL derivative. From the smaller install footprint to the new QT subsystem, there's a lot of stuff in SL that could benefit the ATV. Stripped of the 64bit binaries, SL would probably shrink the SL install size even further.
If it is updated I would put money on apple going (dual core) intel atom + nvidia ion chipset (gf9400 cpu) as it can decode h264 natively and a pc motherboard retails for around £100 and would give better power usage (apples on a green drive at the moment).
Stick in a decent hard drive and give it native upnp support of media on network drives (if its not already there) and it would be a no brainer if the price is right (£150 tops).
Unlikely but would be appreciated more than people would think, a web browser and support for bluetooth keyboard/mouse.
Stick in a decent hard drive and give it native upnp support of media on network drives (if its not already there) and it would be a no brainer if the price is right (£150 tops).
Unlikely but would be appreciated more than people would think, a web browser and support for bluetooth keyboard/mouse.