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As soon as I upgrade my TV I’m gonna buy me one of these, and primarily for one reason – to watch video podcasts on my couch instead of being chained to a computer screen.
I only have one question. What HDMI switch boxes is it compatible with?
Since I’m ‘on’ what I would really like to see is an easy way to view DVDs on it. The AppleTV crack enables the USB socket to use an external HD – is there a way for an external USB laptop DVD drive to work too?
I bought my Apple TV because I thought I wanted to use it as a jukebox, playing my iTunes playlists through my living room stereo.
As it turns out I hardly use it for that at all. Instead, I’ve been using Handbrake and FortyTwo-DVD VXPlus to rip DVDs for my kids, plus looking at all the great photos with my family that used to sit idly on our Macs. It’s a great product now — and I can only think it’ll get better.
I’ve used it – a friend has one – but we both agree it isn’t quite there. The main features strike us as fantastic add-ons to what SHOULD be the main features. IMO AppleTV needs (from most important to least):
*StdDef (480p) hookups
*Tuner (OTA, cable, dish … I want to play what I want to play)
*DVR (for the stuff I can’t get from iTS)
*DVD slot (so I don’t have to spend half my life ripping)
*Direct method for buying iTS content (having my Mac on all the
time is a waste of electricty)
*Lower prices for season passes (99c per episode is perfect)
With the above they don’t even need to lower the price of the unit (& maybe could even get away with a raise). Without the above, I’m sticking w/my DVR + torrent method. My buddy understands completely.
I have been mulling this product for a long time and still have not been wooed to buy. I like the idea of being able to have a permanent allocation of my music and movies connected to my home stereo (rather than the Uni iPod doc) but the apple TV has not blown me over. The Hard drive size is a little lacking for those with extensive libraries. The visualizer is not all that exciting. I personally love the iTunes vis on while I listen to tunes from my MBP while in my studio, so I was disappointed with that. I also love internet Radio and there is no way to access that either.
The biggest thing for me in filling cost. It’s expensive to buy video content from iTunes. I have 250 DVD’s and as much as apple wishes I’m not buying them all on iTunes. I think for the price I would rather get a mac mini, plug it in to my TV and use that to pipe tunes through my home stereo since the bang for the buck is better.
Give it some cool vis options while playing music: iTunes vis, picture slide show. Give it access to internet radio, maybe a way to rip DVD’s ( I doubt this will ever happen) and I may be persuaded. Drop the price $150 – $200 and I’m sold.
1. Continously updated video news content. Make a deal with CNN, BBC or Bloomberg. Just like u tube you can select what news items you want to watch. Kind of like a video newswire.
2. Add web browser capabilities. Let me watch live stream from other sources (bloomberg TV etc).
3. Add more old TV shows.
4. HD movies may be too big. How about HD music videos or even TV series.
5. At least allow playing of DVDs through live streaming from synced computer. Ripping may be an issue for Apple but live streaming from DVDs breaks no copyright law.
6. How about a weather channel. Stock ticker etc, like iphone.
I want to be able to use my iphone as a remote control for the apple tv. i cant stand that remote it comes with.. using the iphone (or even the itouch) would make scrolling through thousands of movies and albums much easier. i would probably use my apple tv much more if this functionality could happen. why not make some sort of infrared peripheral to attach to the iphone?
Steve is a Genius. he has brought out this feature limited Apple TV to show the world how bad a device like this could be and to get people laughing at it before launching his knockout punch with Apple TV 2.0.