Thats VERY easy to do.
Edit: I see since yesterday 'Fake Name Generator' has been taken down, so its now going to be somewhat harder to do
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Thats VERY easy to do.
Edit: I see since yesterday 'Fake Name Generator' has been taken down, so its now going to be somewhat harder to do
He was probably referring to iTunes Plus songs which are 99p each and thus two songs is greater than the price of a TV episode.
Whatever you say I'd still rather have relatively low cost insurance paid to the government - a government who doesn't refuse customers, and doesn't make the whole process of getting better aggravated by worries over how much this is costing.
Yeh I do thanks for asking. As a student it makes much more sense to have Eye Tv on the computer than having a completely separate box taking up space in my room.
Having said that iPlayer is fairly bad - because as with most Windows software its badly designed. For example you have to browse the shows in internet explorer (Safari didn't work for me). But the BBC on iTunes will of course charge money for their shows - as they do for DVDs. The license fee only covers actual TV and Radio stuff - and a little online content.
Yep, when I lived in Oxford I used to use a DTT tuner on my iBook with EyeTV because I lived in a shared house and the TV wasn't always on the channel I wanted to watch
I agree with you about iPlayer, but think it's a bit harsh on all the hardworking and probably underpaid (many students) programmers out there to say that most of their software is badly designed!
I Watch TV 100% Of The Time At My Computers' Command Center
Your notion of only sitting in a living room to watch television applies to most people's lifestyles, but not to all. I'm a HDTV on Computers FREAK Baby!
I've got it set up so there is really no difference between watching HDTV and computing. It's a seamless transition between the two activities that I am often doing at the same time.
I watch TV on my computers 100% of the time. I have a 40" Samsung 1920 x 1080 HDTV as my primary monitor on my Mac Pro and a 24" Dell 1920 x 1200 as my secondary. With two EyeTV tuners on two Quad Core Macs, over the air TV comes right into my Mac Pro & Quad G5 and on to the big screens I am watching from the comfort of my computers' command center where I am operating 4 computers at once over the span of 7 screens including a 30" screen attached to the Quad G5.
Your notion of only sitting in a living room to watch television applies to most people's lifestyles, but not to all. I'm a HDTV on Computers FREAK Baby!
I've got it set up so there is really no difference between watching HDTV and computing. It's a seamless transition between the two activities that I am often doing at the same time.
I watch TV on my computers 100% of the time. I have a 40" Samsung 1920 x 1080 HDTV as my primary monitor on my Mac Pro and a 24" Dell 1920 x 1200 as my secondary. With two EyeTV tuners on two Quad Core Macs, over the air TV comes right into my Mac Pro & Quad G5 and on to the big screens I am watching from the comfort of my computers' command center where I am operating 4 computers at once over the span of 7 screens including a 30" screen attached to the Quad G5.
Your notion of only sitting in a living room to watch television applies to most people's lifestyles, but not to all. I'm a HDTV on Computers FREAK Baby!
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What TV do you watch that needs that kind of commitment to equipment?
Almost everything on TV is rubbish. Most films aren't much better.
As for AppleTV. Not a bad idea but iTunes should rip DVDs and the bought content off iTMS should have 1080p resolution (1080i at least).
1080p resolution for a download?! Are you insane?! The file size would be massive - not adaquet for home use.
720p is brilliant - and standing back to the proper viewing distance you can barely, if at all see much of a difference in 1080 and 720.
1080p also puts more strain on the GPU and most low end TV's that feature 1080p can't even display it smoothly. It panics when there is too much happening on the screen.
I'm not insane. However, my point is that the pricing needs to reflect what quality you're actually getting from Apple. At the moment the whole thing just isn't going to work for most people. Remember the success of the iPod and the use of iTunes was mainly due to people ripping CDs (you can choose the quality) and still most people's ipods are full of non-iTMS content. This effect is magnified with visual content as there is the barrier of actually getting the content to people's TV.
I've never bought a single piece through the iTunes store and probably never will.
My local record shop (screw the big companies like Virgin) often has deals and good offers on music, albums half price and latest tunes etc. Much more value for money.
I don't really agree with paying such a high price for music either...as a musican myself I play my guitar in my band because I love it and love the buzz it gives me, not because I only aim to make huge mounts of cash.
Fair enough you'll need to make money to keep going as a musician, but the record companies are really bringing in corruption and taking away the musical love and talent.
Look at half the pish that appears in the charts, makes me really wonder how hard it is to get signed. I'm sure if I stuck a cat in a bin and banged the side and recorded it I could get a record out.
New era to that old phrase, "the best things in life are free."
Haha, you know - that was my exact reaction a few years ago to downloading 4Mb MP3 files over a 56k modem... but people did it anyway.
Barely any countries have TV programmes on the iTunes Store. Apple is a company that is focussed on products for the US market. All that other countries can hope for is a 'trickle down' effect...
Hard drives don't have the capacity to store a growing collection of 1080p films and shows.
Eventually we'll get huge capacity hard drives at a fair price, but considering Apple TV's max HD option is only 160GB, storing a collection of 1080p films on that - maybe 8-12 if you are lucky.
But in this case (both mechanical on a large scale, and flash on the small scale) the hardware is falling quite a lot behind demand.
Someone came into my office the other day and said they'd seen that one of the memory manufacturers had just finished testing a TERABYTE flash drive.
Keep the faith, brother, keep the faith.
BBC TV/radio shows appearing tonight?
It sounds like it from this Guardian article:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2162894,00.html
It sounds like it from this Guardian article:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2162894,00.html
Apple broadcast the event live at the BBC for European journalists.
They did this for the introduction of the 5th Generation iPod if my memory serves...
I went shopping in town yesterday and saw this 'fantastic offer'.
I don't know why some of us Brits are complaining about £1.89 per episode...
I don't know why some of us Brits are complaining about £1.89 per episode...
If i bought any tv shows it would be U.K ones. I've seen all US shows over and over again, I watched a clip about why apple has these sorts of prices and i remember steve jobs saying that it is all the tax and licenses they have to have compared to US it's very cheap there but here its very expensive for traders, another thing is i read that the BBC is going to compete with itunes so i don't think they will ever put bbc shows on the store now!
None of them are thinking fairly at what their customers might want which is for evey show that the BBC has to offer should be available to itunes customer! and another thing is for me, why do apple take sooo long to get things on the itunes store? and to release their products over here? that is what really bugs me!
None of them are thinking fairly at what their customers might want which is for evey show that the BBC has to offer should be available to itunes customer!
and another thing is for me, why do apple take sooo long to get things on the itunes store? and to release their products over here? that is what really bugs me!