New iTV (Not final name)

[lurk]

You all are missing the point I can now justify the XServ and the 8 disk raid array. That bugger is noisy in a bad way so put it in the garage and then stream you content silently into you living room.

Not. A. Bad. Thing.

[Thank The Cheese]

Originally Posted by nixgeek

Well, according to what I've read this is only an interim name until the official name is decided on.

MacTV?

[Qion]

I guess I'm missing the real usefulness of this product. If I'm to spend 300 dollars on a piece of equipment that picks up a signal and sends a picture to my TV, it better damn well send any picture that I want it to. I don't want to be limited to what iTunes can do, and I want to be able to easily replace my DVD and CD players. Renting a DVD, ripping it, and streaming it to my TV sounds both illegal and time-consuming.

[nixgeek]

Originally Posted by Thank The Cheese

MacTV?

Been there, done that.

And from the reputation of that Mac, it probably wouldn't be a good idea.

[Tommo]

Originally Posted by MrNivit1

Just a historical note... I remeber reading something about an internet set-top box hooked up to a TV a few years ago. Now where did I read this? Hmmm.. oh yeah, Gate's book back in '96.

http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/roadahead/cChap4.asp

Seems Jobs is executing a working plan that Gates couldn't (Media Center PC, anyone?).

This is just what the "iTV" reminded me of.

Well as I understand the info on this it needs iTunes running on a PC or Mac for it to work so it does not stream directly from the internet.

It is funny I have Windows system and an Xbox 360 that have been doing that for nearly a year now, plus I can play games on the 360 in HD as well. Not bad for a non working plan that Steve Jobs is executing, and they say Microsoft always copies Apple.

[Captain Code]

Originally Posted by Qion

I guess I'm missing the real usefulness of this product. If I'm to spend 300 dollars on a piece of equipment that picks up a signal and sends a picture to my TV, it better damn well send any picture that I want it to. I don't want to be limited to what iTunes can do, and I want to be able to easily replace my DVD and CD players. Renting a DVD, ripping it, and streaming it to my TV sounds both illegal and time-consuming.

It's illegal in the US but most other countries aren't as backwards I'm not talking about ripping movies you rented but ones you own you have rights to do whatever you want for personal use. I think most people have DVD players already though so it's not going to replace that. It's a lot easier to put the DVD in the player the iTV is probably sitting ontop of than to rip it.

[fryke]

Depends. If you have 300+ DVDs and a couple of friends over, it's much faster to preview some of the movies from digital files than to swap DVDs every couple of minutes and wait through the FBI and other warnings - sometime even forced to watch other trailers -, then find your way through stupidly arranged menus etc.

[Captain Code]

True but I don't know of anyone who owns a lot of DVDs. It's usually better to rent them since most of the time you're not going to watch it again.