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Old September 12th, 2006, 02:02 PM
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New iTV (Not final name)

Its about time!!!

HDMI and more.. Awesome!!!

It looks like this {a flatter Mini} it's called iTV. That's a codeword. we need to come up with a better name. Interface is like next gen front row 1/2 size of Mac Mini, built-in power supply, USB, Ethernet, 802.11 "wireless component video", optical audio and HDMI ports, plus old RCA stereo audio ports. Works with Apple Remote Like a Mac Mini... iTV is its name (not final).

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Well they've guaranteed a sell to me. I'm just now in the HDTV market and this will work perfectly.

My only complaint from today's announcements are that 640x480 isn't going to cut it in the long run. It's fine to start out with and will still look quite good at a distance, but 1080P is the future, hell even 720P is way better than 640x480. IN short, it will look way better than SD, but nowhere near as good as it could.
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Is this official anywhere? Any idea on price?
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http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/09...time/index.php

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Sounds sweet, I'll prolly buy a HDTV in january so i'd definitely get an iTV. Once again problem is quality. 640 is great yeah but i'd much prefer 720P which we'll have to wait on. I hope its soon.
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When it comes out for sale I am definitely getting one. One more way I think Apple should integrate their iPods is the in card DVD player setup. If you could play the iPod movies in this setup it would great.
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My understand that they said its not 640 x 480. Its HDTV. Sound like its full HDTV supported.
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I doubt they'd use HDMI if it didn't support HD. You should be able to pump HD data (should be 5-20mbps) over 802.11g in real time, and if even an iPod can handle SD H.264, it shouldn't be too hard to process HD H.264 in a set-top box.

But I didn't watch the event. Did he specifically say no HD?
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