Apple TV to be defunct soon as Samsung hints at a MUCH stronger alternative.

[Apple2]

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Personally, I don't Samsung's device (Video game console? Set top box?) this will be the case. From my experience, people buy Apple products because they like the user interface, or the feel that they offer. I could easily build a PC that is 10 times more powerful than an iMac or Mac Pro, but people still buy these machines even though the alternative is out there. I don't think this will affect ATV sales much simply because people buy the ATV for its sleek user interface and simplicity, not because they want a supercomputer under their television.

 

[monty77]

For much the same reason that I sold my Nexus 7 I'll be sticking with the Ecosystem that I've already invested in - despite it's shortcomings .. App Store for ATV, I'm looking at you.

Samsung's offerings are often half arsed at best, if they dont become big sellers support dries up quick and you're left with yet another worthless bit of electronics.

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[whooleytoo]

Sounds interesting, but a spec sheet alone doesn't tell much. We'll need to see what kind of support it gets from Samsung & 3rd parties to see how it fares.

The box I'm most intrigued by is the Horizon box that UPC are starting to roll out in Europe (already in Netherlands, coming to Ireland in a couple of months). "In the demo", it has a really slick, fast UI, and offers streaming to iOS devices, and interestingly streaming from iOS devices (not sure how they accomplish this; is video playback via Airplay openly licensed?)

 

[daverso]

So that makes 2 samsung devices I don't want to buy...

 

[Menneisyys2]

interestingly streaming from iOS devices (not sure how they accomplish this; is video playback via Airplay openly licensed?)

Streaming, if iOS also runs their own client, can easily be implemented over any streaming protocol, even standard ones like UPnP, FTP etc.

Actually, there are quite a few UPnP servers (including several video players also having UPnP server functionality) for iOS allowing for playing back stuff in the app's own Documents sandbox in any UPnP client.

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It's not hard to produce a media streamer that is much better than the ATV(3). With the only (local) streaming being Home Sharing but no FTP / NAS / UPnP / SMB etc., the ATV3, without jailbreaking, is really restricted. Hope Sammy does come up with something nice.