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Apple TV Delayed Until March

Sorry but the reality is that iTV sucks. Lame remote, can't view anything unless its in your itunes library. Must sync it like an ipod, only 40gb hd. Stupid front row interface.

How am i going to watch my eyeTV recorded tv shows? Why can't I stream the massive amounts of video I have on my hard drive? Why can't I have a remote that I won't lose and with more functionality. Why is it freakin $300?

I must say this is the first apple product I will not buy. Its too lame. I can just plug my ipod into my tv if I want these features.

Sticking with my xbox 360 and media center. This setup way rocks.
 
Ok so why do I need Apple TV?

Can somebody tell my why I need Apple TV? A quick overview of the Apple site and itunes doesnt make me want this. At all. Why do I need to pay 15 bucks for a movie that I'm not going to have a hard copy of? For 20 bucks I can buy the DVD. If I grow tired of the dvd I can trade it for something else. It's not a tivo, not that I have one or would want one. I'm not a big tv show person anyway. Seems like an ok toy but not something I really need or want for 300 bucks. I rarely if ever watch a movie on my mac now so what does this do for me? I trying to understand Apples reasoning behind this. This is just basically a bridge between my mac and my tv.
Now if your going to tell me that in the future you'll be able to rent movies and tv shows thru itunes for a small fee (and I mean very small) and it will compete with netflix and the like I could find some interest in the idea, maybe a lot of interest. Until then I dont understand why anybody would buy this. Of course if your an Apple head and need to have everything that Apple puts out I would understand but for the rest of us. WHY? Am I missing somthing here. If they really want to make me happy. Find a way to make itunes music cd quality.
 
reason: it needs the new itunes?????

the apple tv probably does you no good without an updated itunes. so my guess is: apple tv-itunes-leopard middle of march????

leopard might be wishful thinking, but its strange that there have not been any new beta releases in a while....
 
Peace said:
Because I'm ticked off at Apple and it's my way of showing my dissatisfaction.

I'll order it again when they have it in stock.

Maybe one little voice but 5,000 little voices make one loud voice.

Apple should have never promised to ship this unless they were sure it would ship on time.
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Wouldn't it be funny if the price goes up and you have to pay more!
 
To some of you expecting new features — I can't see apple adding any features if they are behind schedule, as that will delay it further.
 
macenforcer said:
Sorry but the reality is that iTV sucks. Lame remote, can't view anything unless its in your itunes library. Must sync it like an ipod, only 40gb hd. Stupid front row interface.

How am i going to watch my eyeTV recorded tv shows? Why can't I stream the massive amounts of video I have on my hard drive? Why can't I have a remote that I won't lose and with more functionality. Why is it freakin $300?

I must say this is the first apple product I will not buy. Its too lame. I can just plug my ipod into my tv if I want these features.

Sticking with my xbox 360 and media center. This setup way rocks.
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Are you running media center on a Mac?
 
Peace said:
The Apple online store changed the date to Mid-March so it's really official now.
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Yup. My order is now slated to ship 3/20 with delivery expected 3/23, if that's the definition of mid march. I'd call then closer to the end of march. :(

Not canceling mine though...

B
 
Peace said:
It's not overpriced.I personally think it's a great piece of hardware.Apple just needs to get their collective * together and ramp up those guys that write code for iTunes,Quicktime and Leopard.
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I think it's overpriced for what it is. 300 bucks for a wireless bridge to your tv that plays itunes content. WAY overpriced if thats all it does.
 
Lucy Brown said:
Are you running media center on a Mac?
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No. Old sony vaio with 2tb of HDs. Its got a dual tuner too. Its awesome. Sits in the basement and records all day long.

I could run it on my mac but why put my beautiful mac in the basement? That is where pcs belong. :p
 
The status of my ordered changed from Feb 28 to Mar 20. totally weak. I ordered the same day, more like hour, it was available on the apple store after the keynote. oh well.
 
Cool

macenforcer said:
No. Old sony vaio with 2tb of HDs. Its got a dual tuner too. Its awesome. Sits in the basement and records all day long.

I could run it on my mac but why put my beautiful mac in the basement? That is where pcs belong. :p
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Yeah, you could run it on a mac but macs dont have tv tuners.

Thats what macs need. A tv tuner not itv.
 
Peace said:
It's not overpriced.I personally think it's a great piece of hardware.Apple just needs to get their collective * together and ramp up those guys that write code for iTunes,Quicktime and Leopard.
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It might be ok value in the USA with the video content you have on the iTunes Store but it seems a little pointless over here in the UK.

For the same money I picked up a 160GB, twin digital tuner Freeview PVR, which makes a whole lot more sense to me. I'm hoping the 2nd Gen :apple: TV will be a lot more inspiring.
 
Left the Apple site opened up in Safari as I went to the pub for the Monday quiz, (had to watch the security ad again, by far the best yet). I came back, went to the homepage to see if anything had changed since earlier and then clicked on :apple: tv to see if any update to the store details since we only had a few days left. I saw it had changed to Mid-March and rushed here to see if anyone else had spotted it.

I guess that gives us more time at work to try and get the Netgear EVA700, (catchy name), to work. Was trying to get that up and running before :apple: tv so people could see how much better it was. I guess the fact we have had problems with the set-up advertises going for the :apple: tv in itself.
 
Lucy Brown said:
Yeah, you could run it on a mac but macs dont have tv tuners.

Thats what macs need. A tv tuner not itv.
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Actually it will work. There are tons of usb tv tuners out there and if you install meda center on your mac it will work. Havn't tried a tv tuner card though.
 
Lucy Brown said:
I think it's overpriced for what it is. 300 bucks for a wireless bridge to your tv that plays itunes content. WAY overpriced if thats all it does.
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Well, not really... it would appear to be 'way more than "just" a bridge... if, that is, the supposed hardware components/configuration are what the rumors claim them to be -- basically a interestingly-equipped standalone (mini) computer system for about $300 -- the makings of many different sorts of standalone system and "interesting devices", if, that is, Apple would open up the (mini) OSX and hardware architecture, etc. But yes.... What are the chances of that happening? And/or how "hackable" will it really be? Questions that only time will reveal... :p
 
Interesting

macenforcer said:
Actually it will work. There are tons of usb tv tuners out there and if you install meda center on your mac it will work. Havn't tried a tv tuner card though.
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I'll have to look into it. I have a 360 but no pc (happy mac convert) and was feeling a bit left out not being able to take advantage of media center.
 
Miglia TV mini HD

Lucy Brown said:
Yeah, you could run it on a mac but macs dont have tv tuners.

Thats what macs need. A tv tuner not itv.
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And that's what Miglia TVHD is for. I'm sure
that Miglia will soon be releasing a plug-in for
use with :apple:TV. The recording and programming
on this thing is excellent - I haven't used my
50" Rear Proj. TV since using the Miglia tuner
on my 24" iMac - The HD TV shows are addictively
gorgeous.
 
Pshh

Oh stop complaining. Nobody here is actually going to buy an :apple:TV... are they? :rolleyes:

I guess it's semi useful if you don't have a 360, TiVo, or some other media extension device.
 
it's true - march 20 new ship date

happened sometime after lunch today. changed from 2/28 to 3/20. I ordered mine the day after it was announced.

this really sucks.

Robert
 
whatever said:
Why are people so stuck in the hard media paradigm? Instead of asking Apple to decide between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD I would rather see people asking them to make HD content available from iTunes. Making  TV completely media dependent. In five years when the next leap is made in HD technology, the enduser will not have to add yet another player to their system, but instead just upload (if necessary) the proper patch to TV and then purchase the content from iTunes.

As I have said in the past, their is no reason why Apple cannot provide 1080P content (besides the fact there isn't much 1080P content available) from the iTunes store.

Yeah, I hear the rumbling now about the long download times, but seriously couldn't Apple just break the Chapters into individual downloads (like an album or like the VIDEO_TS folder on a DVD) and then write some simple code to always play the files in order.

Also remember that Apple claims that movies from iTunes will be 720P (which is better than 1080i).

Sounds like a no brainer to me!
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Quoted for truth.

DVDs/CDs/physical media is dying, long live on demand downloads.
 
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