“Best Buy appears to be sending surveys to customers getting feedback on potential new products and services — something that virtually every consumer-facing company does on a regular basis — but one thing stood out this time around: the very first product in this survey that Best Buy asks about is the oft-rumored Apple iTV, identified here as the ‘Apple HDTV,’ Chris Ziegler reports for The Verge.
“The big box wants to know how you feel about it based on some proposed promotional verbiage which boasts that “Apple finally reinvents what a TV can do,” saying that it’ll run iOS, support iCloud, be controllable from an iPhone or iPad, and have access to Netflix, YouTube, and Flickr — in other words, it’s an Apple TV wrapped in an actual television set, exactly as you’d expect,” Ziegler reports. “Best Buy pegs the set at 42 inches and slaps a $1,499 price tag on it, a fairly hefty premium over models from top tier manufacturers in the same size class; even many 46-inch models retail for less.”
Read more in the full article here.
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the link is broken.
meaning, the link MDN supplied for the full article.
They accidentally chopped off the last character of the link. Here’s the real link:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/5/2773840/apple-hdtv-itv-best-buy-survey
It will need Freeview+ as well for the UK, please, Tim.
As much as I love my iMac, iPhone, iPad, MB Air and Nano, I will not be purchasing a $1500 42″ TV (nor will many many others). Non-starter…
yeah, and the iPad is just an oversized iTouch. Non-starter.
I agree ILM. I still don’t believe they’ll be a standalone television set released by .
Who’s they and just how will they manage to be a TV? I think you mean ‘there’ll be’.
Yeah, that price is ridiculous. They shocked everyone with the iPad price; hopefully, this will be the same.
I doubt the AppleTV (w/screen) is real, but I could definitely be wrong.
Amazing how quickly things change. six years ago a good quality 36″ flat screen ran about $1,400.
If it did some really cool stuff that made basic TV tasks easier to do, plus some new things others don’t do at all, I’d buy it.
Consider the alternatives: An $800 42-inch premium TV plus $99 for an Apple TV vs. $1,499 for an Apple-branded TV. The former alternative seems a no-brainer; the latter, an epic fail.
Full disclosure: I’m currently in the market for a premium 42″ TV, but won’t hold off for some speculative iTV.
But what if it’s OLED, then how much would you pay?
OLED? Now that would change things a lot! But a standard 42″-class LED-backlit LCD display with an embedded AppleTV for $1499? Sorry, not getting my $$$ unless it includes Smellovision.
That’s King Smellovision to you, F10T12…lol
The mythical Apple TV.
We will still be guessing about it’s feature list this time next year.
“Best Buy pegs the set at 42 inches and slaps a $1,499 price tag on it, a fairly hefty premium over models from top tier manufacturers in the same size class; even many 46-inch models retail for less.”
You can also buy 42″ models for more. Making comparisons simply on screen size is useless. Minimally, drill down to type of HDTV, ie LCD, LED. Maybe they do in the full article – the link is broken so I didn’t check it out. I just bought a 51″ 1080p plasma for $750. That doesn’t mean that the a 42″ Apple HDTV is overpriced. That can only be determined by comparing to the same screen tech (LED, but maybe OLED), with software of a similar type, same resolution, etc. I’m sure I can buy a crappy Dynex 42″ LED at Best Buy for
under $500.
An iTV would have to be much more than a TV with and AppleTV built in. The “TV killer” feature Steve Jobs figured out hasn’t been released yet, so speculation on TV sizes and price is silly.
siri.
“Siri” iTV, I want to watch the latest Dexter episode now.
I will buy a couple of those puppies.
With 802.11ac and probably 802.11ad and Siri built-in
Gimme Gimme Gimme ! ! ! !
Back to my mac, remote desktop, (watchmacallit?)
accessing your TV from your iPhone or iPad from
anywhere in the world is going to be sweet.
Apple as a computer company can’t sell Xserves. Nobody wants them so SJ killed it. Stone cold dead.
Do you seriously think Apple will sell more TVs than Xserves. Give me a break.
Orders of magnitude more.
As big as the iMac business if not larger.
I like your comment—I like it a lot..
“…in other words, it’s an Apple TV wrapped in an actual television set, exactly as you’d expect,” Ziegler reports.
Has Apple ever done anything that one would “expect?”
I only expect to be wowed by what Apple does.
If Apple releases a TV that simply has a built-in AppleTV, it will flop badly. It is much more likely they will jump into the market with something IPTV capable, directly competing with MicroSoft’s Xbox & Mediaroom software. It is the way of the future, and, of course, Apple will find a way to do it much better. Steve Jobs said he’d “Cracked it” and we have yet to see what he meant.
(The most common complaint about the Xbox as a digital TV terminal – frequent need to reboot. Sounds all too familiar.)
The price reference is just Apple/BestBuy testing the water, time will tell. One difference with an iTV vs. an iPhone, is it will not have a two year contract to subsidize it….unless the cable providor kicks in…hey now that could be the next BIG thing….