Posts by Carniphage

Quote: Originally Posted by Dimwit I wonder how apple will deal with channels like spice etc... That's a good question. For Apple, it will mean either offering a TV with a missing feature - or changing their moralistic attitude. I...

Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna who needs to deal with vendors when they are already dealing direct to the source. Why would a network want to get 40%or whatever of a cable companies 70% when they can deal direct with Apple...

Quote: Originally Posted by Carmissimo I don't think the model would be that a customer would pay a fixed amount per channel. Rather, what I see happening is a certain amount for X number of channels, of your choice, and a little more...

Quote: Originally Posted by herbapou That would be a nice concept if it woud be possible to implement. To do this Apple would need to build data centers in each city and send only SD feeds. Netflix, which is a single feed stream is...

Quote: Originally Posted by Maecvs The number one thing that has to happen for ANY type of Internet based TV, is for all customers to be connected via fiber-optics. That is a minimum. And that is years and years away. That will cost...

Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna Or they could stick with what they are doing but at a lower price/higher quality/both and not care about the cable companies anymore than they have already. Deal directly with the content providers...

Quote: Originally Posted by Fragnetic Carniphage, I've read a lot of words about the fabled Apple TV, but your proposed content structure makes the most sense to me, since it keeps the Cable companies "in the loop" Exactly....

I have been thinking about the Apple TV. This is what I reckon we are going to see: The problem with TV now is that all the various services that people use arrive as wires in the back of the TV. It is awkward to switch sources. It's...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tulkas Ok, so it sounds like everything will work, but we will lose the ability to have everything configured, downloaded and installed automagically on first setup. Yeah, apparently there's even a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tulkas The key part for me is to have all the other MobileMe info associated with my 'iTunes' account. I believe the quote from Jobs is that the iCloud will be the 'truth' WRT to our synced data, meaning all...