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Apple TV Update To See iTunes Store Integration?
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This is a natural for video content. You are relaxing in your living room it is the perfect place to order TV shows and movies. Reforming the iTunes library format would be even better, so that it could reside on a large drive connected to your wirless hub and be accessed directly by all your Mac's and Apple TV's. 
The interface is perfect, just list them like they do for your own content, but with a price as well. Easy viewing, easier purchases.
Enough about music and Video!
Why is everyone forgetting about the true "Killer App" for the ATV?
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH PROJECTOR!!!!
Nearly everyone has multi-megapixel digital cameras and the photos sit on a hard drive and can only be displayed on a crummy computer monitor. We also have huge screen HDTVs in our living rooms and no decent way to display our photos on them. ATV can solve that problem, but only after a decent photo browser is made available for it!
WAKE UP APPLE!! let me browse the folders on my Mac or PC from the ATV so I can navigate to the exact photo I want and display it in all it's glory on my big screen HDTV! This is not rocket science! People just shake their head when I tell them I can't do this and I have to watch a sequence of photos or randomly display them. WHAT'S WITH THAT???!!!!!
Why is everyone forgetting about the true "Killer App" for the ATV?
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH PROJECTOR!!!!
Nearly everyone has multi-megapixel digital cameras and the photos sit on a hard drive and can only be displayed on a crummy computer monitor. We also have huge screen HDTVs in our living rooms and no decent way to display our photos on them. ATV can solve that problem, but only after a decent photo browser is made available for it!
WAKE UP APPLE!! let me browse the folders on my Mac or PC from the ATV so I can navigate to the exact photo I want and display it in all it's glory on my big screen HDTV! This is not rocket science! People just shake their head when I tell them I can't do this and I have to watch a sequence of photos or randomly display them. WHAT'S WITH THAT???!!!!!
Oh, yeah, see your British. This is an American post. You wouldn't get it. First of all, setting your country location does have an effect: it relates to the iTunes top sellers list on the AppleTV; it distinguishes by regional store. Not that I doubt a buy-from-ATV update is coming.
Now as for the the gentleman from the UK not getting it, do you understand the epidemic of obesity in American society? You think we got that way by getting up off our sofas to walk, perhaps even up a flight of stairs, to our computers to buy a song or movie?
This is a natural for video content. You are relaxing in your living room it is the perfect place to order TV shows and movies. Reforming the iTunes library format would be even better, so that it could reside on a large drive connected to your wirless hub and be accessed directly by all your Mac's and Apple TV's.
The ATV could actually act as the wireless hub. It has a USB2 port. Plug the drive in their and configure it to share via your home network, via software that allows for this. There are some issues doing this all over WiFi -- even g or n -- though, for all computers and devices. Every think about syncing 5GB of music over WiFi from your ATV or network storage drive to your iPhone via your MacBook. Ugly. Long and ugly. Sure the top theoretical speeds on n and even g are tidy for full-blown file transfers, but that's why they call them theoretical. I'm still trying to hunt down the retiree operating some sort of unshielded, power-boosted shortwave set purchased circa 1945 around our townhouse somewhere. Last week he actually managed to knock our Airport Base Station down so hard we couldn't even see the wireless network from four feet away, so I took it in for service only to discover it worked fine in the Apple Store. By the time I got it home, apparently the guy had switched off the flux capacitor he had installed, so we can see it again but who knows for how long.
Ever take one of those quizzes to try and spot Phishing sites?
Why is the name of every country in the pic there in its native language except Norge and Sverige?
The rumor may be true, but the pic was 'shopped.
Why is the name of every country in the pic there in its native language except Norge and Sverige?
The rumor may be true, but the pic was 'shopped.
Ever take one of those quizzes to try and spot Phishing sites?
Why is the name of every country in the pic there in its native language except Norge and Sverige?
The rumor may be true, but the pic was 'shopped.
definitely but I hope it is a good rumor.
I doubt DVR is ever going to happen. First of all, most cable companies offer it now, second, it's difficult if not impossible to make a cheap box that complies with the HD requirements for different regions. Right now, the
If you want a DVR, just get an EyeTV and hook it up to your Mac.
Cable companies offer DVR -they also offer on demand - why the need to rent a movie with Apple TV?
The only thing you get is a storage device for purchased movies.....
Whatever apple does, they need to do it fast, the Apple TV really sucks if you think about it. Way to much money for really not doing anything more than an ipod with video connections can do. Sure it has wifi, but who cares, plug your ipod classic in to your computer sync your 80gb of info and watch whatever or listen to whatever you want on your TV for $249. Have you seen youtube on an ATV with an HD screen, jeeeeeeeeeeeeezo it's worthless. Come Apple, finish what you started.