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deAgonia reports, “You should be aware that titles you rent and purchase using iTunes on your Mac or PC can be copied over to the iPad or iPhone, as well as streamed to Apple TV, but content purchased directly from Apple TV can only play on Apple TV. Be mindful of this when choosing your rentals; if you wish to view the content on more than one device, your best bet is to download it through iTunes on your computer or iOS device… Using iTunes on your computer to purchase or rent content gives you more options [content and devices] than doing so directly from Apple TV.”
“The best part about Apple TV hasn’t even arrived yet. AirPlay, which will be available next month as part of the iOS 4.2 update, will allow you to stream content (photos, movies, TV shows) from an iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch directly to the Apple TV. The ability to flick content from one screen to another reminds me of Minority Report; the concept is that forward-thinking,” deAgonia reports. “The new Apple TV is a well-executed and cost-effective way to bring iTunes content to your TV. At $99, it’s a product that’s easy to recommend if you’re already a fan of Apple’s ecosystem. Better yet, Apple TV is one of those products that will actually become better with time as Apple rolls out new features and adds content.”
Read more in the full review here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
no hulu….bust
Hulu will die anyway. They’ve already increased the number of commercials where I’ve turned off a show I was just testing out. I usually wait and watch videos straight through netflix.
Hulu will die anyway. They’ve already increased the number of commercials where I’ve turned off a show I was just testing out. I usually wait and watch videos straight through netflix.
I won’t be buying AppleTV until it can record. In the meantime, if I find something else that does DVR at least as well as TiVo – without TiVo’s monthly fees – AND does the online thing, an even an Airplay-type thing, I’ll buy it. Apple says it wants us to buy AppleTV for that spot that would normally be taken up by the DVD player. But my current Panasonic DVR is just too useful for me to give up that spot, or that functionality.
I won’t be buying AppleTV until it can record. In the meantime, if I find something else that does DVR at least as well as TiVo – without TiVo’s monthly fees – AND does the online thing, an even an Airplay-type thing, I’ll buy it. Apple says it wants us to buy AppleTV for that spot that would normally be taken up by the DVD player. But my current Panasonic DVR is just too useful for me to give up that spot, or that functionality.