iHome Photos and Video

[Timboid]

Good call on the "eyehome" "iHome" comparison. But elgato is a fairly well know PVR manufacturer/developer. I think they were the first to provide true HD PVR service for the Mac (if not on any machine). Plus lots of other PVR products. It's like tivo for your mac.


---gralem

From the Elgato website...
"
Founded in 1992 by Dr. Markus Fest, the inventor of Toast CD recording software, and led by CEO Freddie Geier, Elgato is a privately held company with its headquarters in Munich, Germany and a US subsidiary in San Francisco, California." so actually German, not based in the UK.

Nice stuff by the look of it, though. Definitely looking at one of their eyeTV boxes for my Mac.

 

[Stella]

Absolute Troll.
Don't feed them.

It's fake. You can tell the covering is fake. It takes some magnification but it's not a great photoshop job. Convincing on first glance, but that's all.

The iHome font is slightly off Apple's use. Slightly. Look closely and you'll see.

And I hate to tell the poster, but ... Centre is not a word. I don't care if that's how Canadians and Europeans spell it. I could care less. Neighbour, Colour and Centre are not words. They are variations on the correct spellings.

 

[krohde]

This is too much like a KiSS device

According to the following article from Engadget, this iHome device resembles a new product from KiSS Technologies in Denmark a little too much. See for your self here:

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000633026645/

KRohde

 

[0s and 1s]

The iHome looks fake. Its right side looks "crumpled." The slot itself looks fake. We'll wait until tomorrow, I guess.

 

[Stella]

The iHome looks fake. Its right side looks "crumpled." The slot itself looks fake. We'll wait until tomorrow, I guess.

Tomorrow is a long time :-( !

 

[john7jr]

Fake:

It's not Apple's font. Compare the "i" letters. Round dot, square dot. Not going to happen.

 

[bigandy]

obviously fake. and it's got the proper spelling of "centre" on it.

i would love to see apple use international english, instead of spelling everything taylored to one country who made up their own version... 😛

🙄

 

[ChrisH3677]

Another reason....

I have a friend who bought a HP computer that is touted as a media center. As a result built in to it are several flashcard reader slots, TV Tuner, FM tuner as well as audio and video connections.

Now that's a media center! And that's what HP says too.

This iHome isn't even close to being a media center.

 

[hcuar]

Now that's a media center! And that's what HP says too.

This iHome isn't even close to being a media center.

How the heck would you know what the new Mac has to offer? In addition, who knows if it's intended on being a "media center". Geesh, it's not even announced yet, and the complaining has begun.

BTW: did the HP run OS X? Nope, didn't think so.

 

[otherSteve]

No remote and design flaws

Ignoring all the other evidence pointing to the fact that this is a fake...
Where is the remote control? Wouldn't a home media center have a remote? Maybe with a ipod style scroll wheel?
And on top of that, it looks pretty ugly design-wise. There's that random black dot on the front left, which has no obvious purpose. It really doesn't fit nicely there. It looks like it's got some sort of mole on it's face (and not the good Monroe kind).
Then there's the huge "iHome" text dominating the top of the thing. It overshadows the apple logo. The top looks cluttered with the logo and the text fighting for space. I know apple wouldn't put out something that looked as shoddy as this.
If you look at it sitting on a table, you would be able to see 2 apple logos, and the "iHome" text. Apple doesn't plaster it's machines with logos and text everywhere you look, they go for a more subtle approach, less is more.
If this was an actual product or even a mock-up, I'd say Johnthan Ives is slipping. This design is not in the same league as the ipod, imac, ect.

 

[EJBasile]

Who would spend there time trying to make that? Seriosuly.

iHome would be such a horrible name for that ting.

I went to my iHome and pugged in my iSight to make an iMovie with the help of iTunes and iPhoto. Then using the iLife compadibility, i burned it using idvd. I took the dvd and played it on my iMac and iBook ( i wish on my iPod 🙁) .

"I, I, I, it all about me" hahah

 

[BMXGUY08]

maybe apple did this to throw us off sounds stupid but you never know

 

[ChrisH3677]

How the heck would you know what the new Mac has to offer? In addition, who knows if it's intended on being a "media center". Geesh, it's not even announced yet, and the complaining has begun.

BTW: did the HP run OS X? Nope, didn't think so.

what are you going on about? My post had nothing to do with the actual new iMac. I was talking about the IHOME and that it couldn't possibly be a media center. I know fairly well what the iHome has got to offer - there's half dozen pics of it and none of those pics contain any flashcard slots, video ports (eg svideo) or connections for antennas like the HP does. sheesh! 😡

 

[artifex]

Just beating a dead horse here, but it seems unlikely to me that they'd even put any pre-release product in a marked box of any sort.

This is real though. You can pick up your iHome Media Centre at an Apple Shoppe beginning 22 January. 😛

Seriously, when I first saw this fake, I was surprised at how much I really wanted something like this. Assuming it has some sort of DVR capability that is. And just for argument's sake, I think they'd have to produce them in at least aluminum finish (if not black as well) to fit in with the majority of American's home a/v equipment. It's stupid, but lots of folks would choose to buy a competitor simply because it would match.

Funny you should say that about the box, when I first saw it (well, after someone pointed out there was paper taped on it), I figured I could do a more convincing job with my ReplayTV.

Except I'm dealing with Captain Trips right now, so I think I want to go back to sleep rather than edit these.

 

[LimeiBook86]

Funny you should say that about the box, when I first saw it (well, after someone pointed out there was paper taped on it), I figured I could do a more convincing job with my ReplayTV.

Except I'm dealing with Captain Trips right now, so I think I want to go back to sleep rather than edit these.

Well I'm a night owl so I had the time 🙂 Here are mine, but I would have typed something on the back but Photoshop was acting weird and would only let me type in capitals:

It may just be me, but I like mine better than this fake. 😀

 

[ChrisH3677]

Well I'm a night owl so I had the time 🙂 Here are mine, but I would have typed something on the back but Photoshop was acting weird and would only let me type in capitals:

It may just be me, but I like mine better than this fake. 😀

Excellent work, dude!!!! I'd buy one of those tho you might wanna inlcude a few USB ports and a VGA port. And I'd be hard pressed to prove this a fake if you put it up as real.

 

[LimeiBook86]

Excellent work, dude!!!! I'd buy one of those tho you might wanna inlcude a few USB ports and a VGA port. And I'd be hard pressed to prove this a fake if you put it up as real.

I just added 2 USB ports instead of the old ugly serial port, I added a VGA dongle like the PowerBooks and iBooks have, and I made it have 2 FireWire port, plug in some iPods for some extra music 😉...Oh Photoshop, how I love thee!! 🙂

 

[rishio]

logo issue

I don't think they would put the big apple logo in the place the monitor will rest on. I call it a fake.

O'

 

[ChrisH3677]

I just added 2 USB ports instead of the old ugly serial port, I added a VGA dongle like the PowerBooks and iBooks have, and I made it have 2 FireWire port, plug in some iPods for some extra music 😉...Oh Photoshop, how I love thee!! 🙂

Geez - if only technology creation was that easy!

well done 🙂

You're gunna have us all sucked in next year 😀

 

[LimeiBook86]

Geez - if only technology creation was that easy!

well done 🙂

You're gunna have us all sucked in next year 😀

Damn my plans have been foiled!!! 😱 *shakes fist angerly* 😡



😀

 

[mdesbiens]

I hope it's not real

Alright, I know it's not real. I imagine that one or two people in this forum have purchased some Apple hardware since the neo-Jobs era began. Ever notice that your actual product takes a little digging to get to? I mean, there is that extended feeling of anxiety... there is a building up of energy. When you open your ipod box, does the unit sit right on top, slightly hidden by the software CD? No. you slide the inner box out of the outer box, fold the inner box in half, instinctively open the wrong door to uncover software and accessories, and then finally open the remaining door to find the iPod, seemingly suspended in its own awe. Likewise, powerbooks and iBooks don't just sit at the top of the box on some styrofoam. Not even the software does! There is that little cardboard insert that folds along the edge and slides into the foam. Under that is the software, but you aren't getting to the computer without taking the foam blocks apart, after you have unwrapped all of the boring upper presents.

No one that knows Apple products could possibly think this is real, so for all you Dell-owning future Apple fans, listen up: You better hope this thing ain't real! Not because there is no keyboard, or that the box doesn't Welcome you upon opening it, or that the unit oriented on it's side (which people are bound to do, even if it isn't supposed to do it), with the logo up, will sit the whole thing down on top of the optical drive. No. There is a better reason. After you throw your hard-earned $500 at Apple for one of these, after you sit and wait impatiently for a month or so, after Apple sends you some emails to the tune of 'it ain't coming any time soon', and after you miss the FedEx guy by a few minutes two days in a row, you will open the box and find a cracked unit.

There is no way in hell that they are shipping these things flush with the top of the box, with no protection from damage besides a friggin twenty-page owners manual.

And either that guy's got some real small hands, or this thing's got a friggin huge optical drive.

 

[wayner88]

iHogwash

Fake...fake fake fake! Been hangin' out with the company since 1984...if this product was real you really think we'd be able to post and view all these threads so easily? I think not...it'd all be shut down by now....with the power of Unix and SSH, I'm sure the Apple IT junkies would have the site hosting these pics shut down waaay by now.

THAT BEING SAID, I think the surprise element has been damaged severely, I wouldn't doubt if the "headless" iMac won't look any much different...seeing how the new aluminum displays and new G5 iMacs share very similar design aspects. I think this iHome ruse hit as close to home as it will get.

 

[Platform]

Excellent work, dude!!!! I'd buy one of those tho you might wanna inlcude a few USB ports and a VGA port. And I'd be hard pressed to prove this a fake if you put it up as real.

I hope that it will have a DVI port and not a VGA or both 😀

 

[ChrisH3677]

I hope that it will have a DVI port and not a VGA or both 😀

I just figured on a VGA port coz if it was meant for Windows users

 

[Frump]

Media Cool!