How's that? If apple wants to replace your cable subscription wouldn't an Internet connection be required regardless?
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Rogers and BCE Already Have the Apple iTV in Their Labs, Controlled with Voice and Hand Gestures
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How's that? If apple wants to replace your cable subscription wouldn't an Internet connection be required regardless?
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I really hope that a new apple tv box is released alongside the new apple television. Tv's have much longer service life than other electronics, a cheaper way to retrofit existing tv's would be great.
I really hope that a new apple tv box is released alongside the new apple television. Tv's have much longer service life than other electronics, a cheaper way to retrofit existing tv's would be great.
yeah and I don't see many cable providers wanting to work with apple on this here in the US. The cable providers wouldn't want something like iTunes on that tv if they work with apple and they would want to use there own PPV system that they have now. So unless apple plans to remove iTunes content from the tv then it would not work.
Prefer the remote!
Thank you, but when I am on the couch I prefer to change channel with a remote (only one finger moves), rather than by saying it loud.
IMO, Siri or vocal contro is good for a phone because your hands are presumably busy, not to pilot a computer or as a remote.
Thank you, but when I am on the couch I prefer to change channel with a remote (only one finger moves), rather than by saying it loud.
IMO, Siri or vocal contro is good for a phone because your hands are presumably busy, not to pilot a computer or as a remote.
Why would it make official? Still a rumors and IMO, BS if you ask me. Just ask Munster.
Gestures and voice commands...
...practical on a TV?
I mean you sit at least ten feet away, so how is it done that a certain move, for example, to reach for a drink, doesn't at the same time change the channel?
Anyway, image and sound quality are key for a TV.
Not sure if I should care about the rest.
...practical on a TV?
I mean you sit at least ten feet away, so how is it done that a certain move, for example, to reach for a drink, doesn't at the same time change the channel?
Anyway, image and sound quality are key for a TV.
Not sure if I should care about the rest.
Many (most?) new TVs today have WiFi or ethernet built-in and come per-installed with apps like Hulu, Amazon and Neflix. I don't see how Apple's TV set would be any different or require a specific provider. Mobile devices obviously need mobile connectivity but your TV should be fine staying on your WiFi or hardline internet connection.
Lethal
How is being tied to an ISP any different than being tied to a cable provider, which Apple reportedly wants to free us from?
I'm calling BS on this one. Why would Apple have to pimp their TV to an ISP? What's next, subsidized TVs with a 5-year contact? NO FRIGGIN THANKS.
I'm calling BS on this one. Why would Apple have to pimp their TV to an ISP? What's next, subsidized TVs with a 5-year contact? NO FRIGGIN THANKS.
Maybe they want to try to subsidize the TV because they probably know without doing that it would probably cost allot. You would probably have to sign a 2 year contract or more with your Cable provider the same way you do when you sign a contract for your Cell phone.
Rogers??
As a Canadian that uses (or suffers through) Rogers for my cable, wireless and phone service, I find it hilarious that someone thinks they are testing the apple tv in a rogers 'lab'.
You have to be kidding me.
I don't think they even read the instructions before they release a product or service. Everything rogers does is half done, and never correct.
And yet they have a lab?? LOLOLOLOLOL
As a Canadian that uses (or suffers through) Rogers for my cable, wireless and phone service, I find it hilarious that someone thinks they are testing the apple tv in a rogers 'lab'.
You have to be kidding me.
I don't think they even read the instructions before they release a product or service. Everything rogers does is half done, and never correct.
And yet they have a lab?? LOLOLOLOLOL
Very interesting, although I find it hard to believe that Apple would let a real prototype into the labs of an unproven third party that they may not even partner with.
I recall Apple having a lot of Kinect like patents already. I just hope is doesn't start yet another patent war with Microsoft.... because I'm so sick and tired of every new product someone makes causing law suits.
Yes if you want to be quiet from time to time.
Does Kinect do typing gestures? Are we going to be tapping the air? This sounds surreal.
Thinking it has to be different; otherwise, you are just talking a roku, ATV2..... No big deal, no need to tie to a provider. Thinking it is going to be bigger that that. Article mentions the following which tells me the content is the key.
I wonder if this is somehow two things mixed into one. Maybe they've got a prototype Apple TV for testing, but the hand gestures sound like that Samsung TV that was demoed recently. I think it was Samsung. But there was a TV controlled by gestures, and it looked terrible, uncomfortable, and incredibly awkward.
Maybe Apple's figured out how to make it work well though.
Maybe Apple's figured out how to make it work well though.
Apple did this with the very first iPhone though. Mostly because it was such a groundbreaking device and unproven, and their demands on carriers were so insane for version 1, they kind of had to.
If the Apple TV set is going to require participation of service providers in some way, I can see them having to do that as well this time around. That's more of concern to me than anything. That you might need certain services or providers, and that doesn't sound quite like Apple... it's not a mobile phone.
