Apple Media Hub
Front Row is definately going to be a competitor to Windows Media Center (just look at the remote comparison Steve showed).
How about Apple create a small device with A/V and HD outputs that you can connect to your Mac and access your Front Row content over your network. It could just have the actual Front Row program running on it and has a block of RAM it loads the content you request in to. Then you can play it on your TV. It wouldd be cheap and would help sell more content on iTunes.
How about Apple create a small device with A/V and HD outputs that you can connect to your Mac and access your Front Row content over your network. It could just have the actual Front Row program running on it and has a block of RAM it loads the content you request in to. Then you can play it on your TV. It wouldd be cheap and would help sell more content on iTunes.
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Originally posted by isomething
Front Row is definately going to be a competitor to Windows Media Center (just look at the remote comparison Steve showed).
How about Apple create a small device with A/V and HD outputs that you can connect to your Mac and access your Front Row content over your network. It could just have the actual Front Row program running on it and has a block of RAM it loads the content you request in to. Then you can play it on your TV. It wouldd be cheap and would help sell more content on iTunes.
Yes, please, I'll take two.
Originally posted by isomething
How about Apple create a small device with A/V and HD outputs that you can connect to your Mac and access your Front Row content over your network. It could just have the actual Front Row program running on it and has a block of RAM it loads the content you request in to. Then you can play it on your TV. It wouldd be cheap and would help sell more content on iTunes.
I'll take one. I would guess that Apple's waiting on the Sigma chip to come out (and writing all that new firmware must be serious work). But it's a media satellite; the media hub is your Mac.
Windows Media Center is looking better every day; now they have several VOD stores and you can use the Xbox 360 as an extender.
Originally posted by isomething
How about Apple create a small device with A/V and HD outputs that you can connect to your Mac and access your Front Row content over your network. It could just have the actual Front Row program running on it and has a block of RAM it loads the content you request in to. Then you can play it on your TV. It wouldd be cheap and would help sell more content on iTunes.
You do realize what you have just described is Apple's iPod... sans HD outputs.
Originally posted by rongold
You do realize what you have just described is Apple's iPod... sans HD outputs.
It's not the iPod, because it has no storage or screen.
I use DirecTv, so I will be getting the upcoming DirecTv home media center (i.e. whole house Tivo) that was demoed last Janruary at CES (and due 'any day now'). Unless an apple media center has a few DirecTv tuners in it with a whole house Tivo function with schedule information, it won't sell here.
Originally posted by Kickaha
wmf, I think what you're trying to describe would be the HD version of AirPort Express, no? A WiFi unit that has HD out instead of audio-only out.
Yeah, and I think that's what isomething is talking about, too.
I think Apple should just let El Gato handle the tuners; you just buy whichever one you want and hook it to your Mac. The Mac does the recording, but the AirPort Express AV does the playback on your TV.