Will Apple implement tv-tuners when the next Quicktime is released ?
TV-content takes up a huge amount of space on the harddrive, unless you settle for lousy quality and 240X180 sized formats.
The next version of Quicktime looks really impressive, and with a spiffy G5, this looks like a real winner.
Anyone agrees / disagrees ?
Zon
The next version of Quicktime looks really impressive, and with a spiffy G5, this looks like a real winner.
Anyone agrees / disagrees ?
Zon
Comments
Viktor
But an iMac G5 20" with EyeTV is a real cool TV set... my TV Viewing habits changed completely - can't live without the stop-while-taking-bee-out-of-the-fridge-and-the-continue feature anymore
Originally posted by durin oakenskin
Steve always said he hates TV.
But an iMac G5 20" with EyeTV is a real cool TV set... my TV Viewing habits changed completely - can't live without the stop-while-taking-bee-out-of-the-fridge-and-the-continue feature anymore
Yeah but im on a PowerBook and I hate pluging it in.
Viktor
I watch it on the computer with Videolan. Even works on my iBook via Airport, so no wires, and I can walk around!
can't live without the stop-while-taking-bee-out-of-the-fridge-and-the-continue feature [/B]
You keep 'Bees' in your fridge!?
What will the Swiss think of next?
Originally posted by fieldy
You keep 'Bees' in your fridge!?
What will the Swiss think of next?
Never tried ice cold bees? Put them into milk, they are crispy, and contain lots of vitamins. And the honey flavor comes for free
To be honest, I was supposed to write "Beer", but I had to type fast, my boss was coming into the office.
Originally posted by durin oakenskin
Steve always said he hates TV.
No he doesn't, but I don't think you'll ever see a TV tuner in a Mac. An Airport Express connected to a TV to watch photos and video stored on the Mac is more probable.
Dedicated HD recorders do their job much better than a computer can, IMO, and if I want to work on my computer, I don't want the computer to record TV shows at the same time.
Originally posted by durin oakenskin
Never tried ice cold bees? Put them into milk, they are crispy, and contain lots of vitamins. And the honey flavor comes for free
To be honest, I was supposed to write "Beer", but I had to type fast, my boss was coming into the office.
Yeah I know, but it just appealed to my sense of humor. "Darling, get me another bee from the fridge, will you?"
With HDTV broadcasts they already have the flags in the digital stream to allow copying or not. All you have to do is record the digital stream and have teh horseypower to play it back.
Apple pull your head our of your a. cavity and buy Tivo before some other enterprising company does. You need to tap into a DVR solution with much alacrity.
Yes, that's right, obsolete.
How, you say?
Well as we've seen with many digital Cable companies (ie cox), they simply are refusing to standardize to keep people from recording digital signals onto transportable media (like files on a hard drive). They're doing this to keep people from fast forwarding through commercials.
You may say, "well cox allows people to rent compatible PVRs for a meager $5/mo".. well there's a reason they only let you rent them.
TV is moving towards a more closed format than open one, and I for one am not happy about it.
Just a couple days ago, a bill was introduced to make it illegal to fast-forward through commercials on DVDs or PVRs using 3rd party equipments or modifications.
If that goes through, then you can say goodbye to the concept of digital tuners in computers. A brave new world we live in--where we can pay $50 for cable and still have to sit through commercials.
For example:
Smart Channels - "Never scroll thru 800 channels trying to find the Packer game and switching to ESPN and FOX Regional again. Just set up an NFL Smart Channel and they are all sitting there....in TABBED WINDOWS!" Finally the word "channel" actually converges with real channels.
Spotlight Global Searching - "Type in 'Swift Boat Liars' into your Finder and grab all of the email, websites and TV channels with thier interviews and commercials are taking place...it not only finds files via metadata, and websites via Google, but automatically finds the latest being broadcast on the 24-hour newschannels."
Home Broadcasting - "Send TV audio and video to any speaker or laptops in the home without needing to be tied to the TV's cable line" Okay, companies might not like this one in apartment buildings especially.
Effortless Recording - "Yeah, TiVo, but with Smart Channels and that Apple interface." Commercial editing is a hot topic. But also if recording coincided with Smart Channels, those Swift Boat ads and football games could be recorded automatically without having know when they are happening.
Pixar/Disney Content - "Get real digital feeds of the Disney, Pixar and Miramax library only in QuickTime!" Now that Disney has made all the money on VHS sales of classics, those will deteriorate in the next 5 years, how do you get families to pay for them again?
I've never used TiVo so I don't know how good the product or company is, but obviously Jobs may be one of the few in the world who could package this and get industry buy-in. The industry only has a few more years before DVD P2P will become significant and every family will have one geek in it to find it.
Lastly, TV seems to be a big push by the Microsoft Windows Media advertisements of late. If Apple doesn't give customers a choice, Dell and HP and Sony will. These kinds of abilities also make some kind of home hub/server/appliance a more intriguing option.