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2nd September 2010
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| Gearslutz.com admin  | Apple TV ? Apple - Apple TV - Rent HD movies and TV shows, stream Netflix, and more Announced yesterday.. Thoughts?
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2nd September 2010
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| Gear Guru  Joined: Jul 2004 Location: Orygun
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| Site seems slow... seems like a decent product if the hardware is priced right. But use a monitor instead of a TV so you don't have to pay for the BBC. -tINY |
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2nd September 2010
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My order finger is itching. I have been converting my DVD library to mp4 via handbrake, but I don't have a computer to tv solution... until this. For $99 I can watch Netflix instantly and access my iTunes library over the network and pipe it in via HDMI? I'm sold.
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2nd September 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Apr 2004 Location: Paris
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Bad idea. For music listening , at least ,the previous model allowed you to have your music library installed in its internal HD. So you could listen to your music without having a computer connected at all times. The new one needs to have the computer connected at all times, all it does is stream. It's basically just a dumb wifi audio/video interface for the mac ( and pc under itunes)
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2nd September 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Oct 2007 Location: Indiana
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If I didn't already have a blu-ray player w/netflix app then this would be a killer deal. I think it's a little late, they should have made this 2 years ago!
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2nd September 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: May 2004 Location: Boca Raton FL
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Our computers are on 24/7 so that's not an issue for me, but I do hate that you can't buy movies anymore. How stupid is that? The whole physical disc thing is as yesterday as the CD is for most people, now it's back to ordering DVDs.
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2nd September 2010
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2nd September 2010
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Is it 720p or the full 1080p? I daydream the HDMI cable is extra and costs another $99  |
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2nd September 2010
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| Gear Guru Joined: Jul 2004 Location: Orygun
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I can get them for under $5 here in The States... *** SPECIAL *** Black 6 Foot 1.3 28AWG HDMI Cable, CAT2, CL-2 (In-Wall) Gold Plated, Male/Male Looks like the aTV only goes to 720p, so it's not adequate for your main TV. Might be fine in the kitchen or office... And, if it's as glitchy as their website today, it's a non-starter. -tINY | |
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3rd September 2010
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I bet 720p looks OK...
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3rd September 2010
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3rd September 2010
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No 1080p. It's not really a deal breaker at the price, but not playing .avi or .mkv is an absolute deal breaker. I'll wait for WD or some other company to implement iphone remoteness to their hardware that already plays every format under the sun and does 1080p (never know, might get a 55" one day). There is also the possibility it will be hacked to do all these things....
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3rd September 2010
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3rd September 2010
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4th September 2010
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I don't see a widespread commercial application for this. Then again, I'm not steve jobs.
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1st October 2010
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After considering everything I opted for the WD Live Plus box. It's pretty cool, it's extremely small and you can hook a flash drive or hard drive right into it or it can access computers off of the network. It plays a lot of video formats and mp3s plus streams Pandora and Netflix so it kind of covers all of the bases outside of a DVD player. It's only $20 more than Apple tv, but I didn't mind not buying into the Apple crippleware program (I already have an iPhone!). |
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1st October 2010
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i think it will work well netflix keeps threatening to open in the uk. |
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6th October 2010
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| Gear interested Joined: Jan 2008
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TV free for over 15 years. Think about it.
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6th October 2010
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6th October 2010
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It might look dumb, but I think it is quite genius! I live with 4 other people, all mac owners. In the center of our household we have an Apple Base Station connected to our broadband and also to a 500gb harddrive through it's USB port. Anyone who logs onto the base station can access the data or stream the media from that harddrive. This includes the aTv. With itunes home share turned on, anyone can stream a tune from someone else' itunes library. We have even had multiple movies running at once, on the aTV and one a few mac computers. I was impressed.
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7th October 2010
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| Gear maniac  Joined: Mar 2009 Location: Los Angeles
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Put one in the gym for the wife... she is loving it. Works like a charm
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11th October 2010
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| Gear maniac  Joined: Jun 2008 Location: Houston
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I'm sure the new Apple TV has it's place but I'm sticking with my original A-TV. I've ripped my favorite movies and uploaded to it for instant access, having music stored on the box is more convenient and the Netflix streaming disk for PS3 works beautifully. We just got Nexflix (3rd go around) and the streaming option for the PS3 is just amazing. Yeah, it's not pristine video quality but who cares for some of the older flix. It's fast and easy...I'm all about that these days.  |
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11th October 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: May 2003 Location: New Jersey, Exit 55
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18th October 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Nov 2006 Location: Greater San Francisco
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24th November 2010
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| Gear interested Joined: Oct 2005
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With Plex now on the new Apple tv things are looking a lot better. Still very beta but pretty cool.
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