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Five things we like about the Apple TV:
• The size
• Speed
• Home Sharing integration: You do it once and all your media is instantly available.
• AirPlay: We actually think that people haven’t totally grasped just how big AirPlay is going to be. Apple introduced it as a minor feature for the Apple TV when the introduced it, but once it’s fully rolled out in iOS 4.2 and users are pushing videos they’ve recorded (or really, any H.264 content local or from the web) on their iPhones to their TV with the press of a button, we think people will sit up and take notice.
• Cheap TV show rentals
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excuse me, but really… aside from Apple deciding to license the technology, what’s really new about this?
I’ve been streaming tunes from my computer to 4 different sets of amps and speakers for years…
I mean it’s nice that more devices will have this built in, but I’m not ditching my new 5.1 receiver just to get it, especially when I’ve already got an AirTunes Wifi connected to it which does the same thing now…. for free.
Let me pay a subscription fee and watch Showtime and HBO streaming for the same fee the cable ops pay them & I’m in.
I have cable but do not sub to these channels because Comcast bundles them with a truckload of shit I do not want.
Let me pay a subscription fee and watch Showtime and HBO streaming for the same fee the cable ops pay them & I’m in.
I have cable but do not sub to these channels because Comcast bundles them with a truckload of shit I do not want.
I agree with Jdoc. Everyone is underestamatimg the AirPlay’s potential. Can you imagine MLB’s At Bat being streamed from your iOS device to your big screen? How about games? Your big screen for the game board and your iOS device a controller? It will be better than the Wii. We will see once the app developers begin to intergrate AirPlay into their apps.
I agree with Jdoc. Everyone is underestamatimg the AirPlay’s potential. Can you imagine MLB’s At Bat being streamed from your iOS device to your big screen? How about games? Your big screen for the game board and your iOS device a controller? It will be better than the Wii. We will see once the app developers begin to intergrate AirPlay into their apps.
Airplay will be cool and all but its still a limited solution. The ATV should be able to stream the videos from a network share without the need for iTunes to be running on some Mac/PC or the iOS device to store the files. Its a nice bonus but should not be a requirement.
Airplay will be cool and all but its still a limited solution. The ATV should be able to stream the videos from a network share without the need for iTunes to be running on some Mac/PC or the iOS device to store the files. Its a nice bonus but should not be a requirement.
@Pocketrash:
It’ll be as good as the resolution you encode it in. If you stick with default settings for smaller devices like those used in Handbrake and Visualhub (RIP), it’ll look crappy.
@Pocketrash:
It’ll be as good as the resolution you encode it in. If you stick with default settings for smaller devices like those used in Handbrake and Visualhub (RIP), it’ll look crappy.
It’s not the size of your screen that matters, but the size of the encoding. You can have a 720p encoded H.264 file on your iPad or iPhone and if you fling that to your ATV, well, you get 720p video.
It’s not the size of your screen that matters, but the size of the encoding. You can have a 720p encoded H.264 file on your iPad or iPhone and if you fling that to your ATV, well, you get 720p video.
Why can’t the TV store all the content? Why do I need a home media server? Or to stream stuff from a computer? The TV should do it all – why do we have all this complexity for something that used to be so basic?
I can’t be bothered downloading/converting/streaming media from device to device – who has the time apart from geeks with no life?
Make the TV the display/the storage/and the network connection and I’m there – otherwise I’ll just skip the next ten years of geekdom.
Why can’t the TV store all the content? Why do I need a home media server? Or to stream stuff from a computer? The TV should do it all – why do we have all this complexity for something that used to be so basic?
I can’t be bothered downloading/converting/streaming media from device to device – who has the time apart from geeks with no life?
Make the TV the display/the storage/and the network connection and I’m there – otherwise I’ll just skip the next ten years of geekdom.
Hope VLC works with it.
Hope VLC works with it.