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Quote: Originally Posted by Dimwit I wonder how apple will deal with channels like spice etc... That's a good question. For Apple, it will mean either offering a TV with a missing feature - or changing their moralistic attitude. I am guessi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna who needs to deal with vendors when they are already dealing direct to the source. Why would a network want to get 40%or whatever of a cable companies 70% when they can deal direct with Apple and get the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carmissimo I don't think the model would be that a customer would pay a fixed amount per channel. Rather, what I see happening is a certain amount for X number of channels, of your choice, and a little more for a few m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by herbapou That would be a nice concept if it woud be possible to implement. To do this Apple would need to build data centers in each city and send only SD feeds. Netflix, which is a single feed stream is already chokin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Maecvs The number one thing that has to happen for ANY type of Internet based TV, is for all customers to be connected via fiber-optics. That is a minimum. And that is years and years away. That will cost billions for …
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Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna Or they could stick with what they are doing but at a lower price/higher quality/both and not care about the cable companies anymore than they have already. Deal directly with the content providers and such.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Fragnetic Carniphage, I've read a lot of words about the fabled Apple TV, but your proposed content structure makes the most sense to me, since it keeps the Cable companies "in the loop" Exactly. Any move by Apple t…
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I have been thinking about the Apple TV. This is what I reckon we are going to see: The problem with TV now is that all the various services that people use arrive as wires in the back of the TV. It is awkward to switch sources. It's not possible…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tulkas Ok, so it sounds like everything will work, but we will lose the ability to have everything configured, downloaded and installed automagically on first setup. Yeah, apparently there's even a secondary iCloud …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tulkas The key part for me is to have all the other MobileMe info associated with my 'iTunes' account. I believe the quote from Jobs is that the iCloud will be the 'truth' WRT to our synced data, meaning all devices su…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tulkas You are asking for your Apple account with the gmail ID to be associated with your Apple Account that uses your mobileme ID. More precisely I am asking for my Apple account with a gmail ID to be able to send…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tulkas The system seems be designed with Single Sign On in mind, where you enter your Apple ID credentials and everything centers around that ID. If you follow what I am proposing, there would only be a single sign…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tonton Why on Earth should we expect that we can't have a separate iCloud account for each of those Apple IDs, and that they wouldn't all work together? The point of iCloud is to do synchronisation. The solution is …
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I am seeing a solution. iCloud needs a AppleID to work. So the correct ID is your iTunesID with content purchase history. At some point The iCloud account will offer an email service. So what email address will it use? Not the GMail a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tulkas Yep. I just got a reply from Apple. They will not be consolidating Apple IDs I can't see how they can solve the iCloud issue without offering consolidation. It sounds like almost every MobileMe user is in …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tulkas I've had an Apple ID that I've used for iTunes purchases for many years. I also have a MobileMe acct that I've used for syncing MobileMe info between devices. Tulkas, I am in exactly the same situation, as ar…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning I haven't used the Zune software so you will have to explain this for me. Now, I know iTunes is a horrrible application, it is the Application I have the most issues with, it must be an embarrassment for Appl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tipoo I know you think so, I was asking what that's based on. I showed you a four year old game hitting over 256MB. The diagram is from a PC. It seems to show the unsurprising relationship between frame buffer size…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tipoo You haven't addressed why you think lack of video memory isn't a problem. The graph I posted showed even games from 4 years ago could hit the capacity of these chips at close to 720P, let alone today's more deman…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tipoo We were talking specifically about video memory bandwidth, I showed you they were nearly identical in that regard, at just over 20GB/s. The article may have meant somewhere else. Tell me, if the video memory band…