Presicely. I do not watch TV at all. Zero percent of my time is spent on it. Its quite liberating.
I know, I gained even more time when I stopped listening to music. Then I stopped reading books and newspapers. Finally, I saved a buttload of time when I stopped surfing the w....................
I know, I gained even more time when I stopped listening to music. Then I stopped reading books and newspapers. Finally, I saved a buttload of time when I stopped surfing the w....................
so actually i know you were being funny but I don't read the paper either (i read online - its cheaper and saves trees). as for music, you can do other things like work when listening to music - not like tv. books - well you can't compare it to tv - it is usually enlightening to read not the opposite.
Presicely. I do not watch TV at all. Zero percent of my time is spent on it. Its quite liberating.
...
I too was once like you, eyes glazed over, bowing to the glowing god, dutifully watching the ads that burn into your brain like a hot iron... but no longer brothers and sisters - I have been freed, saved some might say, liberated from my oppressor!
An Apple projector? wasn't that one of kormac's crazy theories for the i****?
wouldn't that be something!
Truthfully it seems far fetched...but not completely crazy. Still, Apple has been known to surprise. Perhaps Apple has an inside line on some smaller, cheaper, great projector technology.
I could imagine the following video-related product ideas from Apple:
- iPod TV -- basically a streamlined Mac mini with Front Row, DVR, perhaps DVD player, TV in/out port(s), integrated iPod dock. I think Apple will do its very best to get the price down here. The base for Mac mini is currently $499. I would think Apple would like to try an get this down a $100. It might not be a "real" mac at all. Just based on the Mac mini hardware/software platform. Given that $399 might be doable. Making it that much more accessible. That is the price they started with for the iPod back in 2001.
- iPod projector -- basically a streamlined Mac mini with Front Row, integrated iPod dock and a projector built-in. The obvious problem here would be host. The cheapest one's out there now are like $700 and that's without a built-in computer...but who knows.
- Airport Express AV -- Airport Express with video out for streaming video from iTunes to your TV.
( NOTE: I use the brand name iPod here simply because I could imagine Apple leveraging the very well-known brand name to sell the product...I know the product purists will filet me for even suggesting it. )
Haha. I thought of the same article when I read his post. TV can enlighten just as much as reading and reading can stupefy just as much as TV. I don't see why so many people have an issue with it.
What it needs is digital audio out. Without that, it still sucks as a media center.
Well Apple could toss in a toslkink spdif connector for legacy support but HDMI is in fact digi I/O for audio and video with much more bandwidth than spdif.
Well Apple could toss in a toslkink spdif connector for legacy support but HDMI is in fact digi I/O for audio and video with much more bandwidth than spdif.
Interesting. How many receivers have HDMI in? Not many, I would guess.
Given the Appleinsider article about how pissed NBC is about TIVO letting people load stuff onto their iPods, this does not bode well for an Apple DVR.
It cracks me up that an NBC lawyer can say with a straight face that allowing people to do this is bad for consumers.
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Originally posted by mania
Presicely. I do not watch TV at all. Zero percent of my time is spent on it. Its quite liberating.
I know, I gained even more time when I stopped listening to music. Then I stopped reading books and newspapers. Finally, I saved a buttload of time when I stopped surfing the w....................
What about revised Mac mini that hooks up to a TV + Front Row 2 etc. Becoming Apple media center/DVR/whatever...and then..."one more things..."
Mac mini + projector
Projectors getting smaller all the time now. Mac mini is about the right form factor.
Just a totally whacky thought.
Originally posted by Nordstrodamus
I know, I gained even more time when I stopped listening to music. Then I stopped reading books and newspapers. Finally, I saved a buttload of time when I stopped surfing the w....................
so actually i know you were being funny but I don't read the paper either (i read online - its cheaper and saves trees). as for music, you can do other things like work when listening to music - not like tv. books - well you can't compare it to tv - it is usually enlightening to read not the opposite.
cheers.
Originally posted by mania
Presicely. I do not watch TV at all. Zero percent of my time is spent on it. Its quite liberating.
...
I too was once like you, eyes glazed over, bowing to the glowing god, dutifully watching the ads that burn into your brain like a hot iron... but no longer brothers and sisters - I have been freed, saved some might say, liberated from my oppressor!
What, you don't have television?
Originally posted by Chris Cuilla
Here is a nother totally crazy thought...but could jibe with some whacky rumors a long time ago about an Apple projector.
What about revised Mac mini that hooks up to a TV + Front Row 2 etc. Becoming Apple media center/DVR/whatever...and then..."one more things..."
Mac mini + projector
Projectors getting smaller all the time now. Mac mini is about the right form factor.
Just a totally whacky thought.
An Apple projector? wasn't that one of kormac's crazy theories for the i****?
wouldn't that be something!
Originally posted by TednDi
An Apple projector? wasn't that one of kormac's crazy theories for the i****?
wouldn't that be something!
heh. yeah a resurrection of the ol' "apple should make a projector"...
imho, apple making a projector of any sort is bollocks.
Originally posted by TednDi
An Apple projector? wasn't that one of kormac's crazy theories for the i****?
wouldn't that be something!
Truthfully it seems far fetched...but not completely crazy. Still, Apple has been known to surprise. Perhaps Apple has an inside line on some smaller, cheaper, great projector technology.
I could imagine the following video-related product ideas from Apple:
- iPod TV -- basically a streamlined Mac mini with Front Row, DVR, perhaps DVD player, TV in/out port(s), integrated iPod dock. I think Apple will do its very best to get the price down here. The base for Mac mini is currently $499. I would think Apple would like to try an get this down a $100. It might not be a "real" mac at all. Just based on the Mac mini hardware/software platform. Given that $399 might be doable. Making it that much more accessible. That is the price they started with for the iPod back in 2001.
- iPod projector -- basically a streamlined Mac mini with Front Row, integrated iPod dock and a projector built-in. The obvious problem here would be host. The cheapest one's out there now are like $700 and that's without a built-in computer...but who knows.
- Airport Express AV -- Airport Express with video out for streaming video from iTunes to your TV.
( NOTE: I use the brand name iPod here simply because I could imagine Apple leveraging the very well-known brand name to sell the product...I know the product purists will filet me for even suggesting it. )
Originally posted by Gon
What, you don't have television?
Haha. I thought of the same article when I read his post. TV can enlighten just as much as reading and reading can stupefy just as much as TV. I don't see why so many people have an issue with it.
Originally posted by hmurchison
Apple should rebrand this
Mac media center
1. Utilize Solo and Duo Core Yonah's
2. Make it larger and use 3.5' SATA drives.
3. Add HDMI connections include HDMI-DVI adapter
4. Add a TV Tuner
What it needs is digital audio out. Without that, it still sucks as a media center.
Originally posted by smatanovic
What it needs is digital audio out. Without that, it still sucks as a media center.
Well Apple could toss in a toslkink spdif connector for legacy support but HDMI is in fact digi I/O for audio and video with much more bandwidth than spdif.
Originally posted by hmurchison
Well Apple could toss in a toslkink spdif connector for legacy support but HDMI is in fact digi I/O for audio and video with much more bandwidth than spdif.
Interesting. How many receivers have HDMI in? Not many, I would guess.
Onkyo TX-SR803 (us$1000),
Denon AVR-3806 (us$1300),
JVC RX-D401S/D402B (us$500),
JVC RX-D702B (us$800),
Pioneer VSX-72TXVi (us$1200),
Yamaha RX-V1600 (us$1100)
The Yamaha RX-V2600 (us$1400)
for starters. There's more but I don't have the time to
search for'em all.
Next year should be a watershed year for HDMI with the delivery of 1.2 which supports RGB (computers) and SACD as well as other tweaks.
It cracks me up that an NBC lawyer can say with a straight face that allowing people to do this is bad for consumers.
Originally posted by Nordstrodamus
It cracks me up that an NBC lawyer can say with a straight face that allowing people to do this is bad for consumers.
Is it time to break out the lawyer jokes...like:
How do you know when a lawyer is lying?
Originally posted by Chris Cuilla
Is it time to break out the lawyer jokes...like:
How do you know when a lawyer is lying?
He's not asleep?
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