AppleTV is great for missed programming. There are 3-4 times in the last year where I missed Tivoing a show. AppleTV makes a lot of sense there. Same with catching up on a series. AppleTV offers a much better viewing experience than sitting in front of your computer screen in those cases.
I disagee. When I DVR TV programming(Colbert Report) it looks exactly like when it was broadcast. When I pay Apple iTunes for Colbert report it actually looks worse. This is on a 42" HDTV with HDMI inputs.
99.9% of the movies you want to see are available from Apple? You my friend, have obviously found true happiness with your AppleTV. Enjoy!
I am looking forward to rent HD movies to spare the cost of a blu-ray disc before viewing it first. However I wish I had an option to buy HD movies as well.
I disagee. When I DVR TV programming(Colbert Report) it looks exactly like when it was broadcast. When I pay Apple iTunes for Colbert report it actually looks worse. This is on a 42" HDTV with HDMI inputs.
I'm not sure what you disagree with - your response didn't contradict anything he said.
Was looking forward to being able to browse my movie collection by genre (and maybe search for a specific movie)...
Alas - Selecting a movie by genre only appears to be possible when you want to rent one. I guess Apple thinks most people will have no more than a handfull of movies on their system (I have about 400 now, having converted a large selection of my DVD collection to .mp4 and streaming this from a Mac mini)
Waiting on ATV Take3 . . . !
(and now after connection to my iTunes on the Mac mini the whole movie rental section seems to have disappeared completely...?)
That's good, but just to make it clear, that is OUTPUT. Not the incoming file. It's not going to play a 1080p data stream. Many DVD players can also output 1080p, but the player only has 480p data to use, so it's just an upscale.
You probably can hack in 1080p file playback, but it probably won't do it without occasional, if not frequent video stuttering or dropped frames.
I'm not sure what you disagree with - your response didn't contradict anything he said.
OMG- here we go again. I'm beginning to feel like Miss Sally in a kindergarten class.
He said"AppleTV is great for missed programming."
And I disagree. I'm saying I disagree because they quality is not a good as the original- if anything, it's worse. If it's a digital copy it should look the same as when recorded on a DVR. Also, when you buy a DVD of a TV show/series, if anything, it looks better than the originally broadcast not worse. I think the main reason is that Apple TV show downloads should be optimized for large HD TV's not iPods.
OMG- here we go again. I'm beginning to feel like Miss Sally in a kindergarten class.
He said"AppleTV is great for missed programming."
And I disagree. I'm saying I disagree because they quality is not a good as the original- if anything, it's worse. If it's a digital copy it should look the same as when recorded on a DVR. Also, when you buy a DVD of a TV show/series, if anything, it looks better than the originally broadcast not worse. I think the main reason is that Apple TV show downloads should be optimized for large HD TV's not iPods.
The quality issues are all well and good, but if you miss a TV show on wednesday night, catching that missed episode on DVD before the next epsiode a week later is not an option. It doesn't matter how good the quality is of some other alternative if you can't actually get the show to watch in a timely manner.
Considering that there are few if any alternative ways to catch a missed TV show the next day, using aTV and iTunes to watch on a TV seems like a pretty good option.
most of them movies have 5.1 dolby how is that worse then a dvd?
Because most DVDs have DTS 5.1, which has several times the bandwidth of Dolby 5.1. And <i>it's all about bandwidth</i>. This seems like a hard thing for some people to understand, but generally the more bandwidth you give something, the higher quality you get. iTMS HD rentals give their media streams about the same bandwidth as DVDs... so if you upconvert a DVD to 720p (or 1080i or 1080p or 2160p or 17200p.. the output resolution is irrelevent) you'll probably get similar results.
The quality issues are all well and good, but if you miss a TV show on wednesday night, catching that missed episode on DVD before the next epsiode a week later is not an option. It doesn't matter how good the quality is of some other alternative if you can't actually get the show to watch in a timely manner.
Considering that there are few if any alternative ways to catch a missed TV show the next day, using aTV and iTunes to watch on a TV seems like a pretty good option.
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Quality indeed does matter if you are a videophile which you obviously are not. Why did you buy an ATV? You should stick with a VCR- it does exactly what your looking for if quality is not an issue for you.
ATV was made for high-end equipment. Quality is exactly what it is all about.
Quality indeed does matter if you are a videofile which you obviously are not. Why did you buy an ATV? You should stick with a VCR- it does exactly what your looking for if quality is not an issue for you.
ATV was made for high-end equipment. Quality is exactly what it is all about.
I'm not a videofile either. Maybe I am a videophile.
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...for the other 99.9%, downloaded 720p will be more than adequate
Except that the AppleTV now supports 1080p.
But it only upscales to 1080, right? Doesn't it still only support 720p content?
Thank God
Now ATV owners can shutup about it.
That's easy for you to say- you haven't been waiting 8 months for it.
...for the other 99.9%, downloaded 720p will be more than adequate
99.9% of the movies you want to see are available from Apple? You my friend, have obviously found true happiness with your AppleTV. Enjoy!
AppleTV is great for missed programming. There are 3-4 times in the last year where I missed Tivoing a show. AppleTV makes a lot of sense there. Same with catching up on a series. AppleTV offers a much better viewing experience than sitting in front of your computer screen in those cases.
I disagee. When I DVR TV programming(Colbert Report) it looks exactly like when it was broadcast. When I pay Apple iTunes for Colbert report it actually looks worse. This is on a 42" HDTV with HDMI inputs.
99.9% of the movies you want to see are available from Apple? You my friend, have obviously found true happiness with your AppleTV. Enjoy!
I am looking forward to rent HD movies to spare the cost of a blu-ray disc before viewing it first. However I wish I had an option to buy HD movies as well.
I disagee. When I DVR TV programming(Colbert Report) it looks exactly like when it was broadcast. When I pay Apple iTunes for Colbert report it actually looks worse. This is on a 42" HDTV with HDMI inputs.
I'm not sure what you disagree with - your response didn't contradict anything he said.
is that even possible?
(apparently the one stacked under the <Insert Apple Logo>TV*)
*i seriously hate that product's name
Alas - Selecting a movie by genre only appears to be possible when you want to rent one. I guess Apple thinks most people will have no more than a handfull of movies on their system (I have about 400 now, having converted a large selection of my DVD collection to .mp4 and streaming this from a Mac mini)
Waiting on ATV Take3 . . . !
(and now after connection to my iTunes on the Mac mini the whole movie rental section seems to have disappeared completely...?)
Except that the AppleTV now supports 1080p.
That's good, but just to make it clear, that is OUTPUT. Not the incoming file. It's not going to play a 1080p data stream. Many DVD players can also output 1080p, but the player only has 480p data to use, so it's just an upscale.
You probably can hack in 1080p file playback, but it probably won't do it without occasional, if not frequent video stuttering or dropped frames.
I'm not sure what you disagree with - your response didn't contradict anything he said.
OMG- here we go again. I'm beginning to feel like Miss Sally in a kindergarten class.
He said"AppleTV is great for missed programming."
And I disagree. I'm saying I disagree because they quality is not a good as the original- if anything, it's worse. If it's a digital copy it should look the same as when recorded on a DVR. Also, when you buy a DVD of a TV show/series, if anything, it looks better than the originally broadcast not worse. I think the main reason is that Apple TV show downloads should be optimized for large HD TV's not iPods.
Waiting on ATV Take3 . . . !
Take 3- Let's us buy HD!!! And gives us Safari!!!!
OMG- here we go again. I'm beginning to feel like Miss Sally in a kindergarten class.
He said"AppleTV is great for missed programming."
And I disagree. I'm saying I disagree because they quality is not a good as the original- if anything, it's worse. If it's a digital copy it should look the same as when recorded on a DVR. Also, when you buy a DVD of a TV show/series, if anything, it looks better than the originally broadcast not worse. I think the main reason is that Apple TV show downloads should be optimized for large HD TV's not iPods.
The quality issues are all well and good, but if you miss a TV show on wednesday night, catching that missed episode on DVD before the next epsiode a week later is not an option. It doesn't matter how good the quality is of some other alternative if you can't actually get the show to watch in a timely manner.
Considering that there are few if any alternative ways to catch a missed TV show the next day, using aTV and iTunes to watch on a TV seems like a pretty good option.
most of them movies have 5.1 dolby how is that worse then a dvd?
Because most DVDs have DTS 5.1, which has several times the bandwidth of Dolby 5.1. And <i>it's all about bandwidth</i>. This seems like a hard thing for some people to understand, but generally the more bandwidth you give something, the higher quality you get. iTMS HD rentals give their media streams about the same bandwidth as DVDs... so if you upconvert a DVD to 720p (or 1080i or 1080p or 2160p or 17200p.. the output resolution is irrelevent) you'll probably get similar results.
The quality issues are all well and good, but if you miss a TV show on wednesday night, catching that missed episode on DVD before the next epsiode a week later is not an option. It doesn't matter how good the quality is of some other alternative if you can't actually get the show to watch in a timely manner.
Considering that there are few if any alternative ways to catch a missed TV show the next day, using aTV and iTunes to watch on a TV seems like a pretty good option.
'
Quality indeed does matter if you are a videophile which you obviously are not. Why did you buy an ATV? You should stick with a VCR- it does exactly what your looking for if quality is not an issue for you.
ATV was made for high-end equipment. Quality is exactly what it is all about.
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Quality indeed does matter if you are a videofile which you obviously are not. Why did you buy an ATV? You should stick with a VCR- it does exactly what your looking for if quality is not an issue for you.
ATV was made for high-end equipment. Quality is exactly what it is all about.
I'm not a videofile either. Maybe I am a videophile.