Set Top Box

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frogbeaterfrogbeater
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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
At the moment all of the hardware exists for Apple to make a set top box that records MPEG-2 from a TV tuner card, gets TV listings off the internet, and burns said MPEG-2s to dvd.



Sony has a machne that will do it right now!



If this isn't the digital hub then what is?



Forget Apple game console, I needs me one of these.



I swear I'll buy the Sony, I hate PCs, but that Sony does everything I need in a PVR.

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    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,464member
    My needs are a little different. I'm looking forward to seeing what Sonicblue comes out with the ReplayTV 4500 series. Sony is an investor in Tivo and the Tivo Series II leave alot of room for improvement because they added virtually nothing worthwile in my opinion. the STB market still needs to evolve..currently it's a bunch of marketing hype right now.
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    ricrocketricrocket Posts: 142member
    At the risk of stating the extremely obvious:



    Here's the thing, everything I record, create (on the mac), watch, listen to, play, etc. is pretty much digital right now. And if it's not...it can be. What a digital hub needs to do is provide a seamless and transparent means of storing, manipulating, and playing back that data.



    Of course, different data requires different means of playback. I don't want to watch TV on my iPod. However, I might like to watch something I taped last night on my TiBook. I'd also like to play my mp3s on my living room stereo.



    The mac is the hub. Now give me interfaces with the rest of my "digital lifestyle". Give me a settop box that does everything TiVo does, but also can wirelessly send that data to my mac. Give me a wireless stereo interface that works with my mac, my settop box and my iPod. Give me a pda-phone that syncs with all of the above and can be used as a modem for my *book when I'm travelling.



    I know that the fvckin' Recording Industry and the Movie Industry and all the other big businesses are scared to death of this reality, but this needs to be the future. Why do we still have to compartmentalize all this stuff? In the end it's all 1's and 0's ... let me record/manipulate/view it anywhere. And yes, I'll pay money for the content if it's not priced insultingly and structured well.



    If this is just the obvious, the I apologise :cool:



    rr.
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    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,464member
    Hollywood, the Music Industry and the rest of the baffoons don't realize that with both Parents working now in the "Typical US Family" T-I-M-E is the most vital essential. We need to adapt their content to fit our schedule now. That is the way to popularity. STB won't take off until they offer ways to save TIME. We've had the ability to view photos(Kodak PhotoCD) for years so adding that functionality will elicit yawns. Music...we've been downloading MP3's so that capability is expected. The Holy Grail is adding features that let the end user control the content in law abiding ways. Trust me STB's won't take off soon because the industries involved flat out don't understand what the Consumer wants.
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