News coming on Apple TV!

[theBB]

Yeah the current Apple TV is too limited by its hardware.

Based on the teardown estimates, Apple is barely making any money off AppleTV, so I doubt there will be a substantial update any time soon. I don't think it will ever gain DVR functionality, just as iPods do not have FM radio. Combining it with a cable set-top box and a Tivo recorder would be too expensive and much more complicated to operate. I am pretty sure digital broadcast standards vary quite a bit from country to country, so it would be nightmare to support them all. Anyways, you guys already know all these, but I guess you have to fantasize about the possibility.

Rentals is pretty much the best Apple can do.

 

[swordfish5736]

All right I give up. How you think you can get away with a sentence like that without explaining how you do that is hard for me to fathom. Do you please have a link to instructions on how to do what you mean? You use Vista to record HDTV and serve it on an iMac? Please How? Cause if that's true I'm off to buy a HP 2.4GHz Kentsfield tomorrow. In your dreams. Time to graduate to HDTV. They are now very inexpensive.

i know for a fact that a motorola high def box with DVR can be hooked up firewire to a pc. The only way to record stuff is in real time.

 

[Epicurus]

Apple could make a move with its "media controller hub" patent and start putting out hardware accessories for the TV. They could start with a larger external drive since everyone seems to be begging for it.

Personally I'd like to see Apple start to roll out Blu-Ray players in its Mac Pro line, with a Blu-Ray add-on for the TV being launched along side it.

Besides hardware, there is a lot of software stuff I'd like, but there are already lists of that sort elsewhere.


If I were to bet on the next update for the platform, it would be the ability to access the iTunes Store directly. This would give the system access to the latest podcasts, the most recent TV shows, and the added revenue of impulse purchases. A full round of interface tweaks would come with this, of course, as well as an iTunes point upgrade. My two cents.