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I do not have time to go through the 50 odd messages here but there are lots of other major flaws in the Intel laptops Apple has produced, and that they will not acknowledge. The random shutdown issues, flawed logic boards, and screen flickering. I …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Sport73 Watch what you want when you want - with each show coming at a fee (much like iTunes today). It all sounded good until that last line, "with each show coming at a fee". NO! Please god no. Subscription servic…
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Quote: Originally Posted by physguy There is music and photos and internet video content. Netflix/Tivo, etc. don't address these at all and my eyeHome does a shtty job on these. Tivo's can view your iPhoto library, stream you iTunes library, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dave K. I just don't get it?? What I am missing? Dave Nothing You are one of the few that actually is seeing this useless box for what it is, nothing. I'm with you -- after the initial sales rush, it will d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Porchland Apple doesn't want you to record "Grey's Anatomy"; it wants you to download it from iTunes. Of course that's what they *want*. That's hopefully not what they'll get, not at that price anyways. I *want* a n…
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Quote: Originally Posted by caliminius A DVR add-on would be nice and might make me consider ditching Tivo. At $1.99 an episode, if I watch just 7 episodes of TV a month (a VERY safe bet), Tivo is more cost effective. That's what I'll wait fo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Bacillus Apple should heed this warning with the iPhone and make an SDK for it freely avliable on DAY ONE. Definitely! At bare minimum put a default preference in there along the lines of 'allow only Apple applicati…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pmjoe Hmmm ... I have enough issues with the response time on the pause/fast forward/rewind time of my DVR. I cannot fathom what it'd be like over wired Ethernet or even worse, what most people will try to use, wirele…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GregAlexander However, Apple does have the expertise to make the AirportExtreme+HardDisk work as a network server. Not just a remote hard disk - but something that handles your login authentication on every Mac and oth…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pmjoe Exactly! And, just as much so, even in the 3 pages of comments here, we've had numerous people speak about how they don't want to have to leave their Mac on all the time, run between rooms to do stuff on the Mac…
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Quote: Originally Posted by @homenow I think that the two most needed things for Apple TV are a rental/subscription service and access to some form of InterNet TV solution. That's the tipping point for me. As it stands now, the iTV has no chan…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pmjoe [*]Access/purchase content directly from the iTunes Store (Apple already knows what you've bought, why do you need a Mac to access it?)[*]Sync directly and/or playback content from an iPod (it has a USB 2.0 port,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by @homenow I believe that it is also set up to link to Apple's Quicktime site for viewing trailers over the internet. ... .... As long as that streaming is of an encoded file and the decoding is done on the Apple TV then…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JimmyTJ This is really what an AppleTV is - its a dumb terminal that isn't suppossed to do anything except provide a front end to a backend server. As a result, everything that you might want from an AppleTV is actu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacGregor Buy an iTV and buy a Miglia and that is all you need. If one breaks, you can just replace it. Why put it all in one box that would put too much money in one place. As long as both can run from one remote, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by @homenow All they have to do is offer the pilot episode for free to get you "hooked" as well as rely on how people currently "discover" new series such as word of mouth. Am I the only person that watches more than 2…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gugy The DVR would be nice, but Elgato is a good add on and they seem to have a good integration to the iTunes. So, I would not mind to purchase Elgato. I think Elgato products are nice, and if Apple didn't have a v…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism It was really a pain in the ass to navigate everything with a a keyboard, and except for FrontRow, the entire interface was quite annoying to use as computer displays are not optimized to be used on a couch f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism The AppleTV has "DVR type support". EyeTV/Migilia hardware connected to Mac; encode in H.264; auto-load into iTunes when complete; available via AppleTV. Using your Mac as a DVR is cheaper than buying TiVo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland Gene Munster is clueless. Apple needs to do "four" things to take the digital living room: 1. iTunes TV Show subscription service with some free live content (not including Podcasts, YouTube or Google video,…