Good! I hope it is.
I don't want to have high hopes about leopard's eye candy but I know its capabilities.
...and I hope apple tv is not a flop!
Is the link not working for anybody else?
Why?
Because I want to connect this...
To this...
Without this...
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Lol, I love it. what are those grey titles on the wall on the left? Deflectors?
You should send a mail to apple with those pictures, it would make a great print ad
Why?
Because I want to connect this...
To this...
Without this...
Well. Must be enough hype for all you people who think it's useless to keep reading all these posts and talking about how useless it is. If you think it's useless then move on to a rumor that interests you more and stop complaining. Alot of people still think iPods are useless but they still continue to sell.
Lol, I love it. what are those grey titles on the wall on the left? Deflectors?
You should send a mail to apple with those pictures, it would make a great print ad
Where have you been? It's common knowledge that if iTunes can play it, so can TV. Not only was that announced at MacWorld, but their website also clearly states it (http://www.apple.com/appletv/sync.html).
That's great if you have an XBox.Something that not everybody owns or wants to own.
Spend $400 on the XBox then use XBMC or if you're like me just spend $299 on the TV
Ok Avatar, I did laugh my head off with your pictures....however, to those of us with laptops we can easily carry our laptop into the room of our tv and plug one or two wires into my tv and voila....I have itv. Certainly not the additional storage, but I also have a back-up drive for that stuff with wireless access. Your pictures, however, are classic, funny, and certainly apply to your situation. Thanks for responding!
Except that iTunes and Quicktime cannot play DivX/XviD files. Yes you can add a CODEC, but I'm pretty sure iTunes won't be sending uncompressed data to the TV.
Also, TV lists MPEG-4 and H.264 as compatibility (.mp4 files) but not DivX (which is an .avi wrapper for MPEG-4/MP3, with most pirate rips using VBR MP3, which isn't even allowed by the .avi specs).
Take a look at something here...
This is the back panel of my receiver (obviously)... Notice something?
Notice how few audio interconnects there are? There are many reasons for this... not the least of which is mitigation of EMI/RFI. Now, you'll have to excuse the use of Monster cable... It was oddly the most available half-ass cable there was. I'm not deluded into believing it's miracle cable. It's overpriced crap, but it's the most decently shielded crap readily available around here. In the future, I'm ordering online from either Van Damme Cable (vdctrading.com) or avcable.com.
Note that I essentially have no more than four audio cable feeds... consisting of a total of five cables (three single fiber optic leads and one pair of RCAs). That's it.
I'm working towards completely minimizing my cabling profile while maximizing the use of my network as a backbone for home entertainment... so naturally TV is extremely appealing to me. Also, where I've noted "AppleTV" I'm currently implementing AirTunes over AirPort Express but will soon be replacing this feed with AppleTV.
Mind you I'm not a gadget-crazy techno-illiterate. I'm running a highly managed network with a business class DSL router, stateful firewall and both inbound and outbound packet filtering, syslog, MAC address authentication, wireless encryption, encrypted directory structures, etc.
But network administration is one thing... I set everything up robustly so I could focus on being productive. A technological solution ideally should be simpler in design than the complex function/result it's designed to achieve. This is the definition of efficiency and solid industrial design. This is why implementing TV is a natural evolution of the setup I've already begun to grow.
Currently I stream my music over AirTunes but I'd like to do away with using my laptop to access via Music Sharing the bulk of my library which sits on 500 gigabytes of storage in the office. I'd like to access the library directly, and an onscreen UI is an additional measure of usability and simplicity.
I want immediate access to movies, TV programming and music in one interface. I want to make use of my existing computer network's CPU power and nonlinear data storage. I want to do so without messes of cables all over the place. And I want to do so without having a clunky gathering of PC hardware in my living room with a half-ass cable conversion (last I checked, no Mac computer comes equipped with HDMI or component video or the correct hardware/software to produce a normal NTSC or ATSC color gamut).
I had the good ol' VCR-plugged-into-the-Mac-with-15-inch-monitor solution to watch movies... more than ten years ago in college. I'm not in college any more. I don't find elegance in having a computer sitting in the living room when we have technologies such as 802.11 wireless ethernet.
I can see if perhaps what you have is a Mac Mini... but I have two G4 towers and a G4 laptop. Do I want cables coming out of my laptop, strewn across the living room to the TV? No. Do I want to move my office computers into the living room? No. Do I want long stretches of cable running from my office to the living room? No. None of these are elegant, smart solutions. They're hackjobs for folks who use hacky codecs, who get their music and movies from P2P networks and use inelegant software to view their media on small displays less than optimally suited for ATSC/NTSC programming.
What I want is a device that will elegantly bridge my network with my home entertainment system without an unnecessarily convoluted UI to access content.
That is TV.
What he said.My video library is quit large and ive been converting them for about a month now.
Folks might also want to know that if you have an Elgato product it will work with the TV and iTunes.
I don't know if you've noticed but AirPort Express DOES NOT act as an AirTunes access point AND a router simultaneously, either. It's either-or... You can switch configurations but it can only do one or the other at any given time.
Anyway doesn't that also require a Windows PC with Media Center or something? Not to mention that it probably only supports WMV or something.
I don't know if you've noticed but AirPort Express DOES NOT act as an AirTunes access point AND a router simultaneously, either. It's either-or... You can switch configurations but it can only do one or the other at any given time.
A little hostile perhaps? From what I could see it states you need a widescreen TV. I'll be glad if it works on my regular TV though, I'm sick of streaming to my PowerBook.Where have you been? It's common knowledge that if iTunes can play it, so can TV. Not only was that announced at MacWorld, but their website also clearly states it (http://www.apple.com/appletv/sync.html).
A little hostile perhaps? From what I could see it states you need a widescreen TV. I'll be glad if it works on my regular TV though, I'm sick of streaming to my PowerBook.
What I don't get about TV is why there isn't a DVD slot on the front of the thing. If it could playback DVDs/CDs, I would gladly replace the DVD player I have now. As it is, I can't justify it as it seems like a rich kid toy and entirely unnecessary for my needs.
Apple needs to use this thing to kick ass in the DVD player market the same way they did with the music player market. The last 3 DVD players I've bought (all of varying prices) have sucked. I'm desperately tired of lousy UI of DVD players (such as they are) and the ridiculous complexity of the remotes. Just the "resume where I last left off" feature and the Front Row-like stuff would be reason alone for me to buy it. I hate sitting through the endless intro screens every time I pop in a DVD.
Perhaps a future revision of TV will include a DVD slot and when that comes, you can count me in. Until then, it's barely useful to me and (I suspect) most people out there.