No one owns, or will own apple TV, its an epic fail...![]()
That's interesting. I'm fairly certain that I know at least a dozen people who own them, myself included. It also does what it's built to do quite well. Not a failure in my eyes.
No one owns, or will own apple TV, its an epic fail...![]()
That's interesting. I'm fairly certain that I know at least a dozen people who own them, myself included. It also does what it's built to do quite well. Not a failure in my eyes.
No one owns, or will own apple TV, its an epic fail...
Edit: to add, f**k all this corporate money grabbing bs, apples moves have been all too obvious since the "year of HD" that never was, itunes sucks why was my old winamp using about 2% of a 700mhz Athlon and iTunes rinses about 50% of a 2.4ghz P4 on canterwood?
Plus it's totally screwed up one of my raids from crashing out whilst syncing my iphone... meh apple sort yo self oot
Only just HD, on a large screen or projector you need 1920x1080.
An what about the sound?
Bluray with high bitrate 1920x1080 AVC and lossless audio wins by a mile.
wasnt this already available![]()
I'm so sick of seeing this kind of BS. "Only just" ? What the heck does that mean? Tell me, is 1080i "just HD" also? I'm going to bet that your answer is no, it's REAL HD. Get a clue. The actual "information" difference between 720P and 1080i is practically negligible (1080i is really only 540 lines of information at any given moment and uses a trick of the brain to try and make you think you are seeing more than that; technically 720P at a given moment in time is higher vertical resolution). 1080i is interlaced which in general is inferior to a progressive image. For static images, you'll get an apparent higher resolution, but with motion you will get an inferior picture.
http://s3.carltonbale.com/resolution_chart.html
oh and as for superHD, and why do we need 1080p when 720p is fine?
For me, bluray is archival quality. I shouldn't need any more than that. With DVD I didn't have that.
When I'm collecting movies, I'd be happier to spend the money knowing that movie will stay with me even as my equipment improves. Sure, DVD might look great on your 40" screen, but it doesn't when you have a projector. and the difference in audio is very noticeable between DVD and bluray.
As for 4k, I don't see it. Digital 2k cinema at the moment is pretty much only 1080p at the moment, and while that will likely improve (possibly to 4k) that won't be needed at home
Well I bet the macbook/macbook air users are not happy about this since the macbook air doesn't have a dedicated graphics card, and therefore will not run the HD very smooth. Expect very jerky performance on any mac machines without graphics cards.
Are you being sarcastic? I LOVE my Apple TV and I know many people that want one. Anyone I show it to wants one, they just don't really know about it because Apple doesn't advertise it like its other products.
Soon it will be the hub of your digital life and entertainment center with DVR functionality and games and an SDK with the app store and much more, trust me.
Sales have gone up 300% too without any push on Apple's part!
Oh and iTunes rules!![]()
Yeah, but you live in an iBubble (you're a MacRumors member, case and point). No one outside of that bubble owns an AppleTV.
No Sarcasm at all, its no good as a 'media hub' as it's all tied in to apple hardware, I'm not going to buy one and I don't know anyone who owns one.
And as for iTunes it is a massive system hog for something that should use minimal resources.
And when will iTunes sync my phone with firefox?
I'll bet never cause they want to tie people in to all apple hardware, I dont like this attitude it is protectionist and ultimately bad for competition.
Mmm. Not entirely. Half of the other users are Windows users. My best friend, Matt, is very much a windows guy, but he's the first to admit that Apples got a few things right. He's got an iPod, not because it's trendy, but because it serves his needs and interfaces well with iTunes. He had a HTPC for a couple of years, but decided to go with thetv when he saw mine.
Not everyone is trapped in the "iBubble" just because they use Apple's hardware. None of the content on my iPod ortv are DRM'd (except my television season). I've got about 200 movies at my disposal whenever I want them, and at least 20 of those are HD rips I performed myself. I avoided buying an overpriced BD player and instead bought a (somewhat cheaper) BR drive so I can rip them to a playable format for my
tv.
Some may say it's a work around, but it's all about the convenience of having it all instantly. Will I ever pick up a BR player for my TV? Maybe when they drop down to the $99 mark. In the mean time, I'll keep enjoying having all my discs in a couple of bins in my attic, out of the way.
EDIT:
Do you mean, "it's all tied into apple software"? Because I'm pretty sure many people use iTunes without a Mac. And I'm also pretty sure that many iPod owners are Windows users. Could it be that you would like to think Apple requires you to have all Apple hardware to use their other hardware, because if so, you are sadly mistaken. Plenty of people use the Airport Extreme without a Mac in sight. I know plenty of college students who use both a MacBook (given to them by their school) and a desktop PC. It's not as black and white as you're making it out to be.
I own three and they work great.No one owns, or will own apple TV, its an epic fail...![]()
You should really trim some of the garbage you have in your library. I'm at 70 GBs @ 128 KBps and despite listening to new music and adding new songs, I manage to keep it around 70 GBs because I always find trash that's just not worth keeping. I can't imagine what crap you've probably never heard in a year that is hidden in a 1.5 TB library.
And there's nothing wrong with album art though I didn't start using it until I got my iPhone. Some of it is truly enticing (Herb Alpert and Ohio Players for instance) so i don't see how that's bloatware. You don't have to add the art if you don't want to.
I like the convenience offered by the whole iTunes ecosphere but I don't like the DRM so I've yet to buy or rent any videos from iTunes.
No one owns, or will own apple TV, its an epic fail...![]()
Yeah, but you live in an iBubble (you're a MacRumors member, case and point). No one outside of that bubble owns an AppleTV.
Yeah, but you live in an iBubble (you're a MacRumors member, case and point). No one outside of that bubble owns an AppleTV.
And that's my point. Most folks have been so dumbed down in media quality for the sake of "convenience", or space, that they have happily settled for lower quality music and videos - even if it still cost them around the same price, or more, as the higher quality alternative.
Try listening to Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue" in your 128KBps AAC format, and then try listening to it in 320KBps MP3, or Aiff file format on a good Denon receiver with a couple of Klipch XL-23 speakers. You'll weep at all the money you've rat holed to iTunes Music.
Hmmm, you use the inferior MP3...
I believe some people on here have self-esteem issues that they feel the need to put down others to make themselves feel superior.
I use a Compaq Presario Desktop I got on closeout for $199. I share my PC Printer so I can print from Windows. I added iTunes and it's my AppleTV server. I also sync my iPhone to it.
Before I got the AppleTV, you were supposed to "easily" use Windows Media Sharing and get the content (non-iTunes anyways) on an XBox 360. Well 2 evenings (for a total of 8 hours) later of being unsuccessful, I went and got an AppleTV.
It took 5 minutes to set up and get it working...![]()
No Sarcasm at all, its no good as a 'media hub' as it's all tied in to apple hardware, I'm not going to buy one and I don't know anyone who owns one.
And as for iTunes it is a massive system hog for something that should use minimal resources.
And when will iTunes sync my phone with firefox?
I'll bet never cause they want to tie people in to all apple hardware, I dont like this attitude it is protectionist and ultimately bad for competition.