David Pogue highlights and explains Apple TV in a humorous video which illustrates how you can connect your computer to your TV without wires.
In his Apple TV review, published yesterday, Pogue wrote, “Apple TV offers a gracious, delightful experience — but requires fidelity to Apple’s walled garden.”
Watch the video (3:36) here.
MacDailyNews Note: Apple TV specs:
• Video formats supported: H.264 and protected H.264 (from iTunes Store): 640 by 480, 30 fps, LC version of Baseline Profile; 320 by 240, 30 fps, Baseline profile up to Level 1.3; 1280 by 720, 24 fps, Progressive Main Profile. MPEG-4: 640 by 480, 30 fps, Simple Profile
• Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps); protected AAC (from iTunes Store); MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps); MP3 VBR; Apple Lossless; AIFF; WAV
• Photo formats supported: JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PNG
• Enhanced-definition or high-definition widescreen TVs capable of 1080i 60/50Hz, 720p 60/50Hz, 576p 50Hz (PAL format), or 480p 60Hz
Related articles:
PC Magazine review gives Apple TV 4 out of 5 stars – March 22, 2007
NY Times’ Pogue: ‘Apple TV offers a gracious, elegant, effortless, delightful experience’ – March 21, 2007
Mossberg hands-on with Apple TV: ‘beautiful design, easy-to-use, classic Apple: simple and elegant’ – March 21, 2007
That annoyed me! i hate videos like that… ARGRGRGRGGAGAGAGAGAAGHHHHHH!. OK, i feel better now.
Nice! Really shows the usefulness of Apple TV off. No more stringing long wires…
and he says it cant play hi-def – it can 720 is hi-def, though this cant be bought from i-tunes
What a nerd!
Doesn’t he have it in QuickTime so we can download it?
I like the message, I hope it resonates. APPLE TV, Sell it strong—everywhere fast!
@Big Al,
All MDN readers are nerds! Oh wait, I am confusing MDN with slashdot.
Did y’all watch the video…
“Wait a few hours to copy your iTunes library to the hard drive?” Huh? Between my music, movies, and photos I have 174 GB of data. That ain’t gonna fit on a piddly 40gb hard drive.
“…requires a hi-def TV, but Apple provides no hi-def content.” *sigh* Why not provide an analog output for low-def TV?
Damn, I missed my FedEX guy this morning…..nooooo……
I want my Apple TV….
We need a Computer and HDTV all in one.
46 and 52 inch versions.
Download direct from internet to the computer in the HDTV, no need for a second computer in the attic or Apple TV.
iPod for your TV…yeah, right.
So max is 40Gb of viewable and listening material? How many movies tv shows is that?
How about just taking my video iPod and hooking it up to the tv? Is that possible?
There were some hot chicks in that video. Was that Buster’s wife?
All the video proves is that the “problem” for which this device provides the “solution” is RIDICULOUSLY NON-EXISTENT!!! The scenario with the people wanting to see the movie from the other room happens all the time. And George Bush is a philosopher king. My god is this product stupid, Apple.
But, buy it up life-less halfwits, another sucker while be borne in a second. Don’t delay!!!!!
Mumbler Cracker:
There’s a 40 gig drive in the aTV. There’s a terabyte in your MacPro. That adds up to a Terabyte plus Forty gig iPod for your TV.
So yes, it does hold quite a bit more than an iPod.
I gotta get the soundtrack to Pogue’s movie…what’s it called? ‘The Organ Whisperer’ or something?
I noticed also that he says that it can’t play high definition video. Ugh…I think, too, that he means HD videos aren’t available from the iTunes store.
it streams the music, movies etc from the computer, the hardrive is basically for when you dont have you computer turned on. at least i think so.
anyone know, can it play movies in your movie folder on your mac, ie .avi movies etc, or does it have to be movies downloaded from iTunes?
@numbercruncher: Sure you can hook up your video iPod to any TV with video/audio RCA jacks (red/white/yellow plugs). Apple switched the colors around, but find your camcorder A/V cable or buy a cheap one, and follow the directions here. It works great on every TV I’ve tried it on. It’s especially handy for slideshows.
Wow, This guy is irritating. I don’t care if he likes or dislikes Macs, he is just irri’fn’tating.
I had been putting movie DVDs in my computer to watch movies and everyone in the family complained because, as Pogue points out, the movie is on the computer in the other room.
Then someone showed me that you could put the movie DVD in the DVD player by our TV and watch the movie on our TV. Now we no longer have to turn and try to watch someone describe the movie running on the computer in the other room!
I would suggest everyone by a DVD player for your TV – it sure beats having to watch the movie on your computer monitor in another room. And you can get a DVD player for around $49 or less!
Damn genius!
David Pogue does a great job. Just try producing a piece like that without being boring as hell…
Hats off to him.
Welcome to the internet. You do something cool, and people use the distance afforded to piss on you. It’s assumed that the people who do the pissing don’t have the talent or the guts to put out any video themselves. Anyway, good on ya David Pogue, I thought it was great.
“There were some hot chicks in that video. Was that Buster’s wife?”
LOL One of them was Pogue’s wife. The other was *my* wife.
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David Pogue is such a FUCKING FAGGOT!!!
He’s just a squishy Yale faggot who should stick to theatre arts.
After all Apple’s done for Pogue he should watch his fucking faggot mouth about Apple products, like mossberg.
TUAW, the Unauthorized Apple Weblog, shows you how to connect a Mac Mini to your TV, thus giving you a lot more flexibility than you get from the now-shipping Apple TV.
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/03/20/howto-connect-your-mac-mini-to-a-tv/
Cool, Shawn! BTW, we’re going to need more footage. Maybe some leopard skin outfits and a nice dance number for 10.5’s debut?
“Maybe some leopard skin outfits and a nice dance number for 10.5’s debut?”
LOL is that all? Not a problem. Pogue’s wife has some nice legs.
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> Doesn’t he have it in QuickTime so we can download it?
David Pogue’s short videos are available as a podcast on iTunes. It’s called
New York Times Video: Technology | David Pogue
Included is the humorous “Microsoft did not copy Apple” segment and his hands-on first look at iPhone from MacWorld.
Ann
You are usually funny and informative,
but on MDN you’re just a dick.
I have a 1.5GHz G4 Mac Mini hanging off my 42″ LCD. Wireless KB & Mouse, 1:1 pixel mapping, 802.11G.
I don’t have FrontRow or the Apple Remote, but I have the Griffin remote. And I only paid $80 more for a full computer versus the AppleTV.
Advantage: Me
I have a Baird television-broadcast-signal receiver that I bought 80 years ago, and I won’t purchase a new machine until colour is perfected. It’s been all downhill for television since the Abdication.
some of you folks are getting caught up in the things the apple tv can’t do… like the fact that it’s got ‘only’ a 40GB hard drive. COME ON! how many of you actually have more than 20 full length feature films on your computer loaded into iTunes in .mp4 format? how bout more than 10? the 40GB hard drive isn’t for every single file you own….it’s for the stuff you know you’ll want to have at the drop of a hat, any day of the week. everything else can be updated through iTunes and streamed. the harddrive is pretty much irrelevant as long as there’s no skipping or buffering delays. i, for one, can’t wait to get this machine hooked up to my TV and start churning some movies into .mp4 with handbrake…quit your bitchin’ and love this thing for what it is!
mr