iTV Questions...

iTV is a codename, it will cost $299, it will probably be released at MWSF, and we don't really have much in the way of details.

 

we believe iTV will be able to act as a relay between a computer and a television, allowing a user to watch movies from his computer (downloaded through the iTS, of course) via a wireless connection on his or her television. i presume you'll also be able to record and pause/rewind live television (like a DVR or TiVO).

 

Nice idea, but iTV has no tuner in it.
However, what if they sold an external tuner for $100-200 that read ATSC/NTSC and encoded it to H.264 on the fly? THere are rumors that iTV will have a "small" internal hard drive. Well, now a days, small is 40GB. A 40GB Hard Drive could record 28.216 hours of SD 480p H.264 @ 3 mb/s or 6 hours of HD 1080i H.264 @14 mb/s.

 

This has yet to be confirmed whether or not iTV will have a tuner or the option to have a tuner.