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Post by heffer111 on Apr 19, 2007 22:21:19 GMT -5
Has anything been released about it?
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Post by Jason Todd Grisham on Apr 19, 2007 22:55:36 GMT -5
Apple TV is an interactive entertainment hub that picks up TV Shows, Music, Movies from the Mac (edit: or Windows, I guess as long as you use iTunes) and puts it on your big screen TV or surround sound system.
But for some reason that requires more CPU power than a Wii and more memory than a PS3. That still confuses me actually. But some people have hacked OS X on it making it the cheapest mac evar.
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 19, 2007 23:24:04 GMT -5
Its weird that they picked School of Rock for the commercial, I mean its a good movie, but still...
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Post by heffer111 on Apr 20, 2007 3:07:35 GMT -5
Apple TV is an interactive entertainment hub that picks up TV Shows, Music, Movies from the Mac (edit: or Windows, I guess as long as you use iTunes) and puts it on your big screen TV or surround sound system. But for some reason that requires more CPU power than a Wii and more memory than a PS3. That still confuses me actually. But some people have hacked OS X on it making it the cheapest mac evar. It just plays whats on the ipod on a tv? lol. |
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Post by Blindkarevik on Apr 20, 2007 9:20:46 GMT -5
It's honestly meant for people who want to use ITunes, but don't have an Ipod. While the music feature is on there.... it's really meant for the TV and movie downloads from Itunes, so you're not limited to watching them on your computer... and since DVD Burners aren't commonplace yet... this gives that content a portability it otherwise wouldn't have.
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Post by Psy on Apr 20, 2007 9:30:20 GMT -5
This is why I have a video card with TV-Output.
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Post by Blindkarevik on Apr 20, 2007 11:35:46 GMT -5
I have one of those sitting on a shelf..... unfortunately, it'd fry my power supply.. so I need a new one before I can install the bastard.
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Post by Mr. Backlund on Apr 20, 2007 12:07:37 GMT -5
I've actually played with one at an Apple Store. Like others have said, it's basically an iPod for TV, but you can hook it up to the internet and use it as a digital media receiver.
However, the quality of films and tv shows you can download is absolutely terrible and extremely noisey. You can play music and display album art, but why would you want to do that on TV? You can access photos and display them on the tube, but you can do that with a ton of different ways for much cheaper.
Basically, it's an excuse to give Apple money and make youreslf look extremely dumb in the process.
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Post by heffer111 on Apr 20, 2007 14:36:29 GMT -5
I mean, I saw in Best Buy yesterday this wire that hooks into your ipod that you hook into your TV and you can play everything on there. Meh
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