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March 23, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Apple TV opens up a world of possibilities
The Apple TV is a curious product. On the face of it Apple TV would appear to be a very temporary technology with a life expectancy of maybe five years.
Why do I say that? Simply because once your TV has Wi-Fi embedded in it, or your set top box, why do I need the Apple TV?
For the moment the product's reason for being is to act as the middleman between downloaded content living on your PC from iTunes like movies, pictures or TV shows and your television.
So if the TV became part of your network, just another node why couldn't you transfer all of that content from your PC to the TV directly?
But then there's that USB port. What's that for?
Could it become the link to a series of other boxes sitting atop the Apple TV. Maybe it becomes the hub for your home entertainment center or a sort of portal for unified communications?
Imagine the Apple TV with a dumb IP PBX plugged into it and the Apple TV has the smarts, so you could manage all communications from one central console: VoIP, email, IM, even downloaded faxes and old fashioned cellular and analog phones as well.
It's sort of a fun guessing game. But the nature of high tech is such that anytime someone in the industry comes out with a box, almost any kind of box, everyone with a little imagination can see a whole world of possibilities. That's what makes it fun.
So, anybody out there want to add to those possibilities.
Posted by Ephraim Schwartz on March 23, 2007 03:13 PM
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Mr. Jobs has done an end around the video industry and their intention to keep people from viewing their media as they see fit.
With the four screws holding the apple tv together it didnt take long for it to be "hacked". In the first 24 hours of release the hard drive has been upgraded and the codex library has been updated to allow the playing of nearly every media type.
What a machine! From one end of the spectrum to the other. A sleek little job for the non techie to plug into his tv and watch his podcast and itune movies. For the hacker and the techie that likes to play its a machine that will transfer all his media to the tv. It will play all his ripped movies on the tv in dvd clarity. It will be a computer for on the go. Who knows what the week will show for these guys. One of them already has internet explorer running on his.
Take a look.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2391956
Ya gotta love it.
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