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Video from MBP -> TV - wireless transmission?

Temujin

Temujin

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Oct 1, 2005
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Anybody heard of a device enabling my MBP to transmit video to my TV wirelessly?

Kind of like an Airport Express enables me to transmit audio to my stereo.
 
Temujin said:
Anybody heard of a device enabling my MBP to transmit video to my TV wirelessly?

Kind of like an Airport Express enables me to transmit audio to my stereo.
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iTV is being worked on and was previewed at the last Keynote. See Apple.coms quicktime page or search iTV on MacRumors. :)

Its quite big news so I cant believe you havent heard of it. :eek:
 
:eek: Sure I've heard of it.....but haven't really read into what it's capable of.
From what I remember from the keynote it was something about streaming movies from the internet. I'm more interested in playing local material.
But maybe I should read more about it :D
 
Temujin said:
:eek: Sure I've heard of it.....but haven't really read into what it's capable of.
From what I remember from the keynote it was something about streaming movies from the internet. I'm more interested in playing local material.
But maybe I should read more about it :D
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Nobody really knows what it'll do. The idea is that it will recieve wirelessly media files from a comp and play them in a frontrow-ish like interface. The main purpose being to play movies and tv shows downloaded from the itunes store.
 
Temujin said:
:eek: Sure I've heard of it.....but haven't really read into what it's capable of.
From what I remember from the keynote it was something about streaming movies from the internet. I'm more interested in playing local material.
But maybe I should read more about it :D
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Not from the internet, from your computer.

You download content from the iTunes Store to your computer and use "iTV" to stream it to your television.

It's basically a video-enabled Airport Express with a built-in interface, I actually suggested something similar ages ago but couldn't figure out how to implement it. Never thought "a little box that goes on your telly." :rolleyes:
 
Been reading up on things. Im really looking forward to hearing more about this thing, and to see a detailed spec chart.

I hope Apple will keep the price at a reasonable level. An AirPort Express Base Station is highly overpriced IMO, and if iTV were to surpass that price by a too much I'm not buying.
 
Temujin said:
Been reading up on things. Im really looking forward to hearing more about this thing, and to see a detailed spec chart.

I hope Apple will keep the price at a reasonable level. An AirPort Express Base Station is highly overpriced IMO, and if iTV were to surpass that price by a too much I'm not buying.
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Steve says $299 (A$449) - all the americans on this site reckon it's expensive, I think it's a pretty good price, what does that say about the relative prices of technology between there and here? :D
 
Chundles said:
Steve says $299 (A$449) - all the americans on this site reckon it's expensive, I think it's a pretty good price, what does that say about the relative prices of technology between there and here? :D
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$299 is expensive. The prices tend to be a bit higher here in Denmark, so it will probably be like $350 - $400 over here.

Airport Express
US: $129
DK: $165

Bummer :(
 
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