“Apple TV works with most standard definition TVs that have component video inputs, but as [an earlier article] Inside Apple TV points out, it’s an embedded Mac. That means it can be used to convert an existing Cinema Display or other DVI monitor into an HDTV. Here’s an overview of Apple TV, and how even non-TV watchers might find it handy,” Daniel Eran writes for RoughlyDrafted.
Eran writes, “Plugged into a DVI display, the Apple TV simply recognizes it automatically and sets the resolution to 1280×800. Apple makes no mention that I saw of this video setting, nor any comments about the ability to plug the Apple TV into any DVI monitor supporting that resolution, but it does work.”
Eran writes about yesterday’s news that HP has dumped Microsoft’s Media Center, “That’s right, the most prolific PC seller in the world just unplugged itself from Microsoft in the home media entertainment field to pursue a strategy more like the Apple TV. Wow — big news! Cue the media silence.”
“If the number one cheerleader for a platform dumps it unceremoniously, while happening to also be Microsoft’s largest and most visible licensee for MCE PCs, it most certainly is a statement about Media Center PCs,” Eran writes. “The fact that HP is now launching a strategy that looks a lot like Apple’s is also an endorsement of the direction of Apple TV.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz,” “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son,” and “Formica” for the heads up.]
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