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Next Generation AppleTV References Found in iOS 5, But When?
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If Apple were to release a piece of hardware that allowed it replace the pile of remote controls I've got in my living room - they'd sell it by the millions. If it also allowed consumers to ditch their cable or satellite set-top boxes, they'd sell them in the hundreds of millions.
Existing solutions come close, usually IR dongles or pucks, but they somehow lack the elegance and intuitive ease of use we expect from an Apple product.
I hope that in some top-secret Apple lab somewhere, they are putting the finishing touches on such a product.
tvI actually cancelled all TV subscriptions and use the PLEX channels. I can watch CNN/ABC/NBC/EuroNews/AlJaz/Dis/Hist/all of the German stuff. Actually, more stuff than I can with a TV subscription including all of the Swedish channels I like.
Seriously, I don't see why I should have a TV contract at all.
Switching countries with AppleTV?
I moved from the US to Austria, though I often take trips back to the US. I've gotten in the habit of buying electronics in the States since it's so much cheaper, but I'm not so sure of this with the aTV. If I got one in the States, would work ok in Austria with downloading movies and whatnot from iTunes? I assume so, since I still use iTunes for getting my songs. Of course, not so good of a deal with Netflix still not working in Europe
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I moved from the US to Austria, though I often take trips back to the US. I've gotten in the habit of buying electronics in the States since it's so much cheaper, but I'm not so sure of this with the aTV. If I got one in the States, would work ok in Austria with downloading movies and whatnot from iTunes? I assume so, since I still use iTunes for getting my songs. Of course, not so good of a deal with Netflix still not working in Europe
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So what happens when I want to AirPlay my iPhone 4s 1080p video on my AppleTV? Downgraded or doesn't work at all?
So what happens when I want to AirPlay my iPhone 4s 1080p video on my AppleTV? Downgraded or doesn't work at all?
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Channels should just make their website AirPlay friendly and subscription based. When my wife and I miss church we watch it later that week like this (for free). It works well.
Channels should just make their website AirPlay friendly and subscription based. When my wife and I miss church we watch it later that week like this (for free). It works well.
I moved from the US to Austria, though I often take trips back to the US. I've gotten in the habit of buying electronics in the States since it's so much cheaper, but I'm not so sure of this with the aTV. If I got one in the States, would work ok in Austria with downloading movies and whatnot from iTunes? I assume so, since I still use iTunes for getting my songs. Of course, not so good of a deal with Netflix still not working in Europe
It works fine. I bought mine in NYC.
Netflix works in Europe with a US-based VPN service ... and there are some uncapped free ones.
Basically, I can use my brother's NetFlix account here if I have the Time Capsule set up to do VPN to the US.
Although, to be honest, I find it easier just to download whatever movie I want to watch because I'm technically violating NetFlix ToS and several other distribution laws by doing the US-based VPN, so I might as well just download the movie.
In short, just buy the apple TV, it was only 99USD (65) when I was there, so I also picked up a new MacBook Air for 630 as well and saved some cash.
Interestingly, Steve Job's old partner Steve Wozniak started a company to do just that quite a few years back. It never got off the ground.
This is a problem just begging for a solution though, and the technology is definitely available to do a proper job. It just needs a user interface designer with the vision and insight of a Jobs to do it.
Maybe it's one if those ideas in the pipeline at Apple.
That's what an iDevice is for.
I think that's where it's all heading.
"Dim the lights. Turn on the home theatre system. Play Tron: Legacy."
What you need my friend is the harmony one remote
When is this apple tv 3 coming out?
Apple should set a date this isnt an iphone
Great post, and that's what I'd like to see too. The current model for paid content delivery through sat or cable is terrible. I always figured Apple would be the company to turn that industry on it's ear and create a whole new model for content delivery, and possibly even wrap that up into a TV.
The UIs on the DVR/STBs are fricken awful. Slow, clunky, inconsistent ... I could imagine the finesse of execution that Apple could bring to that market. I've gotten to there I use our iPad more than the remote for DirecTV. The guide is faster, has an infinitely better UI, etc.
Kinda weird how the Apple TV software and iTunes are still beta with no updates since Aug 31st.
just saying'
just saying'
I've held off buying an Apple TV because of the 720p limitation. 720p is just a transitional resolution, with most products and content focused on 1080p.
As soon as Apple TV goes to 1080p, I'll buy one. Like an earlier poster said, it's a no-brainer at $99.
But what I really want is a Mac Mini with a built-in BluRay drive sitting next to my TV....
As soon as Apple TV goes to 1080p, I'll buy one. Like an earlier poster said, it's a no-brainer at $99.
But what I really want is a Mac Mini with a built-in BluRay drive sitting next to my TV....
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I would recommend buying an AppleTV.
The great thing is that it takes advantage of the unification to other Apple devices. I can play my entire iTunes cateatlog through the AirPlay feature. Music streaming from my iPhone to AppleTV through my home theatre system. And I can control what I listening to through my iPhone anywhere in the home. I also play Pandora that way too.
I am not too hung up about 1080p as televisions will upscale the picture. Netflix looks fine through ATV
I tried Roku and returned it. Also the Sony player too.
Apple tv works.
I would recommend buying an AppleTV.
The great thing is that it takes advantage of the unification to other Apple devices. I can play my entire iTunes cateatlog through the AirPlay feature. Music streaming from my iPhone to AppleTV through my home theatre system. And I can control what I listening to through my iPhone anywhere in the home. I also play Pandora that way too.
I am not too hung up about 1080p as televisions will upscale the picture. Netflix looks fine through ATV
I tried Roku and returned it. Also the Sony player too.
Apple tv works.
Needs? hardly, but it will come. Of course only when iTunes starts offering such content. Apps and Siri on the other hand are way more important.
iTunes maybe, but Apple didn't provide the GM of the iOS 4.3 Apple TV update to developers either despite releasing several betas on the developer portal. It was released through the normal software update mechanism.
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Downconverts to 720p.
If iPhone 4s "1080p" shoots 1920 x 1080 video, that's a little over 2 million pixels per frame. When down converted to 720p (1280 x 720), it will reach your HDTV as a little over 921 thousand pixels per frame.
Yes, your HDTV will probably then up-scale it back to 1080p, but that means the TV is inventing the missing pixels rather than just showing you the actual ones you shot (in short, not the same).