Mickeleh's Take: Told ya.
(More on Apple TV this weekend when I set mine up. It stings to be such a technoloy laggard.)
(Tags: Apple TV)
Other Mickeleh's Takes on Apple TV:
Pixel-Punchy Scobel's Rant about Apple TV
The Big Gotcha of Apple TV: It Might Not Work on Your TV
Apple, Pioneer of Accessible Solutions, Neglects Closed Captions in Apple TV
2 comments:
Won't buy one until it can also replace my Airport hub (one less box) and, more importantly can play my wmv and divx downloads. Until then I'll just keep plugging my laptop in with the DVI-HDMI cable so I can watch TopGear on the big screen.
Apple's betting there are enough people who have less stringent requirements than you, Hardie. And less facility with downloading from multiple sources.
Seems to me that Apple has two goals: short-term, to sell a few boatloads of Apple TV hardware and long-term, to establish a beach-head at the TV that links exclusively to the walled garden of iTunes. The competition for Apple isn't the Xbox as a Media Center
Extender, it's the cable box. Hence Starz suing Disney over distributing movies through iTunes.
There are many choices more versatile than Apple TV and lots of folks who will prefer them. But there are few to none more convenient and simple.
I'll have more on this on the weekend. Stay tuned.
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