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  • yes, one school of thought is to pack more hardware and functions into AppleTV to make it like a TiVo, Slingbox, BluRay DVD, and Windows media server all rolled into one. but somehow i don't see Steve Jobs going that way ... another is to add more software tools to make it a dumbed-down HTPC, including a browser and stand-alone iTunes media library/processor. well, maybe ... but my favorite idea is very different: to clone iPod Touch software on it, including all your apps, then using a Touch or iPHone as a wifi remote control for it. now that would be killer, really something new.
    United StatesAlfiejr had this to say on Oct 02, 2008 Posts: 4
    Apple TV, the Do It All Machine
  • this blog post wasn't done very well. two bad omissions of known facts: - as Infidel points out, the ATV hardware CAN and DOES handle 1080p. so the limitation is really with the iTunes service, not the ATV hardware. thus this post is mis-directed. - the competing Vudu system does offer 1080p rentals/purchases - using its own torrent-like download network of Vudu units. reportedly it works well. the post fails to mention this very significant available alternative. the one thing the post does well is discuss the pricing differential between ATV/iTunes and Netflix/BluRay movie rentals. you pay quite a bit more for on-line rentals and get somewhat less in picture quality with much worse usage limitations. for me, this - not the PQ issue - is the fatal flaw of the ATV. i figured out quickly the money i save renting by mail will pay for the cost of buying a PS3 in a few years.
    United StatesAlfiejr had this to say on Apr 07, 2008 Posts: 4
    1080P, AKA Apple TV's Downfall
  • Baloney. "Top Secret" was hype, sure. Jobs' presentations always include large doses of hype - i mean, look at his usual language with all the superlatives thrown around loosely. and if you don't see that up front and take it all with a huge grain of salt, you're totally gullible and need some street smarts real bad. But those two words neither linguistically nor conceptually equal "amazing" or "revolutionary" etc. that is you projecting a hoped-for notion from inside your own head onto someone else's ill-defined words. that's your trip, not his. there are plenty of Leopard features now announced that were heretofore "secret" except to beta developers. that's just a fact. if you want to fault Apple for exaggerated rhetorical hype for too loosely using the word "Top," fine, i'm with you. but if you say they outright lied or betrayed, that's just plain silly whining.
    United StatesAlfiejr had this to say on Oct 17, 2007 Posts: 4
    Sorry, Children, Leopard's Top Secret Features Aren't Real
  • You know, you're just being a grump and you're cookin' the books. Apple's list of 300+ new Leopard features, large and small, obviously includes many that were not previously identified on its website preview earlier this year or identified at any Apple conference. (Rumors/blabs from developers who got Leopard betas do not count.) so these features were in fact "secret" until now. your beef really is that none of these "secret" features are major breakthroughs like Boot Camp and Time Machine. Ok, that is true. but Apple didn't promise that. so stop being such a whiner.
    United StatesAlfiejr had this to say on Oct 17, 2007 Posts: 4
    Sorry, Children, Leopard's Top Secret Features Aren't Real