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Suppliers to Begin Preparing 32" and 37" Apple Television Sets in Early 2012?

I've got 40" Sony in my bedroom and 50" Pioneer plasma in my leaving room.

Both are very old but 8-year old Pioneer still delivers gorgeous picture. I will be moving 50" to my bedroom and get 60-70" for the living room. 70" Sharp Elite with local dimming and full array backlighting looks like a winner.

So potential Apple 37" would be a joke. No any "siri" will make me buy it.

32" iMac however is another story. I would get it.
 
Sizes

A little elementary math shows that 32, 47, and 55 diagonal measurements provide an area ratio of 1:2:3, which is natural for sizing. 55 is for the family room, 47 for a smaller main viewing room, and 32 for a bedroom or other smaller room. These are also the sizes that are commonly manufactured. I hope there is a matte screen option.
 
Aeolius said:
agreed... not worth taking the 65" LCD down from over my mantel.
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Over your mantel? How high is your TV? The bottom of my TV is probably 3 to 3.5 feet from the floor (mounted to the wall), and I think I should have gone about a foot lower or maybe 6 inches lower.
 
The bigger it is…Well….The more money it will cost. Maybe they're keeping it small to not bankrupt every person?
 
Worst idea ever if this is true. People already have most of their large flat screen TV's and are not going to go out and spend 1000-1500 for a 37" lcd that you know apple will charge for them if it is indeed true. Apple just needs to stick to the little hockey puck form factor that way everyone can use apple tv with the TV's they already have. TV's should be dumb devices like monitors. TV technology doesn't change that much over the years but things like Apple TV or Boxee Box technology change rapidly. You can't combine the two and expect people to upgrade TV's like they upgrade iPhones. Its just a stupid idea! Maybe Apple is going back downhill if this is indeed true...
 
Guys we have to remember this is just a RUMOR and also one of the earliest in regards to Apple television. It is equally possible the size is wrong and speculations are incorrect. One thing for certain is the brains at Apple have done their due diligence on every conceivable variations they can think of and we are just making a very quick glaze of our opinions from this RUMOR.
 
It's absolutely comical that these TV rumor threads are almost exclusively arguments about what size TV is best. As if picking a size is what SJ "cracked". "I've done it! It should be 34.73", Eureka!!" :rolleyes:

In my main TV room, there are 2 screens. One is 19", the other 90". Does that make me an extravagant American, or a European in a tiny old house? I'm confused.
 
ericrwalker said:
Over your mantel? How high is your TV? The bottom of my TV is probably 3 to 3.5 feet from the floor (mounted to the wall), and I think I should have gone about a foot lower or maybe 6 inches lower.
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The TV is about 6' off the floor. To be fair, the best sofa to watch TV from is 14' away from the fireplace (den is 25'6" x 19'6" and is open to the dining room and kitchen).
 
flux73 said:
7??? :eek: You NEED a man-cave for that TV.
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My man-cave has no television. Instead, it has saltwater aquariums. Granted, my man-cave is in an unfinished part of the house; exposed ceiling beams, no drywall, and concrete for a floor. But it's mine. ;)
 
Aeolius said:
My man-cave has no television. Instead, it has saltwater aquariums. Granted, my man-cave is in an unfinished part of the house; exposed ceiling beams, no drywall, and concrete for a floor. But it's mine. ;)
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Think of the fish and anemones - they need entertainment too. And you probably need your sanity. 7...respect sir. And sympathies. ;)
 
If the goal is to make watching TV easier, is adding one more box to the back of an existing TV really the way to go?

If I recall, was not Jobs saying that having all these devices hanging off your television was one of the problems?

My parents are hardly luddites, but they already struggle with a cable box and Blu-ray player. Adding an :apple:TV that they also have to remember needs to have their Mac on to work (so they can connect to their iTunes library) just complicates things even more.


If Apple really is planning a television/monitor that integrates the functionality of an :apple:TV with WiFi to connect to the Cloud to pull down content, it's possible we're not the target audience. We're technically savvy enough to figure this all out and some of us even like the complexity, since it also gives us the flexibility to do things how we want it.

As to price, they could go either way. If it's innovative enough, they can price high (like the original iPhone). If it leverages iOS heavily, they can price it "reasonably" (as they did with the iPad, which came in cheaper than most analysts expected to drive adoption and expand the iOS market).
 
I predict an epic fail, the first in quite a while for Apple, if they release a TV, no matter what it brings to the table. Stamp this, date it, and re-post it if they release a television.

Unless they buy a cable company and control the pipes, television is a dead end.
 
Aeolius said:
The TV is about 6' off the floor. To be fair, the best sofa to watch TV from is 14' away from the fireplace (den is 25'6" x 19'6" and is open to the dining room and kitchen).
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That's because it is too high. But that's ok.

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CWallace said:
If the goal is to make watching TV easier, is adding one more box to the back of an existing TV really the way to go?
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That is an issue of setup space and technical knowledge at the time of setup. But multiple sources physically inside the TV aren't really different every day when you want to watch TV. It's still a matter of control. Some remote controls have improved this dramatically already. We'll just have to see what Apple has to offer.
 
Mac pros actually

If these screens have been ordered, it's for Mac pro replacements. New radeon graphics due in early 2012, new intel chips and these screens and Mac pro has been dropping in percentage of sales. Thunderbolt allows ultimate switching of components. These are either new stand alone displays or some kind of iMac Pro to replace the Mac pro permanently. The only replacement parts need be the video card and ram. Everything else is now going to be external to keep costs down and allow better customization. Don't support blueray? Fine. Buy a thunderbolt drive, etc.
 
I love these threads... I have to say EVERYONE would be buying a 37"
IOS enabled touch screen - that as pointed out could also function as
A regular 'TV'!

If you ask me that's where they are headed.
 
This has probably been mentioned before but can't Apple just tweak the Cinema Display?

I don't know much about the workings of a TV but the Cinema display is already high-res its pretty big (needs to be a bit bigger) and can already connect to Macs.

Can they turn these into TV's with a few additional ports?
 
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