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- ibone, on 10/11/2008, -11/+52What better way to overcharge for a 30 inch television set than to put an internal AppleTV inside it and slap an apple logo on the back? Oh and make it shiny and white too while your at it...
LOL - inactive, on 10/11/2008, -8/+42Yeah, that iPhone failed majorly. No one uses those.
- baldgye, on 10/10/2008, -3/+26I'd rather hear about them working on new cinema screens... unless...
- Balanced, on 10/11/2008, -4/+25There were a bunch of rumors of this years ago... never went anywhere. I doubt this one will, either. TVs seem like far too much of a 'commodity' market for Apple to want to deal with. Product line turnover in TVs is very high.
- emt1451, on 10/11/2008, -0/+18They haven't done... anything...
This is a rumor. I guess that's all it takes for Apple these days. - cheeseron, on 10/11/2008, -0/+16Brushed Aluminum
- liquisoft, on 10/11/2008, -2/+17Woo fake news!
- digitalranger, on 10/10/2008, -43/+58Well if it's Apple, expect it to shoot itself in the foot with unreasonable usage restrictions, and to be over priced. IMHO - Fail.
- Ozmotear, on 10/11/2008, -1/+16Dear Jason,
Thanks for revisiting Macworld rumors from 2006.
Sincerely,
The Internet. - Spo8, on 10/11/2008, -1/+14Jobs: "And we will call it the Apple TV! Wait... *****..."
- mrsteveman1, on 10/11/2008, -3/+15What usage restrictions? The rentals? They have little control over that, and they don't have the market position to force the content owners to change anything.
- digitalranger, on 10/11/2008, -0/+11You shouldn't have to hack it though, it should "just work" ;-)
- FireSlash, on 10/11/2008, -0/+11New? Cinema displays? Surely you jest.
:( - RevJonathan, on 10/11/2008, -9/+20Wow, that's extremely dull.
I'd rather duct-tape a modded xbox one to the back of my tv. - colonelxc, on 10/11/2008, -4/+14Sweet, since the appleTV went over so well, how could this ever fail?
/sarcasm - diligent1, on 10/11/2008, -3/+11Calacanis is a bum when he sold his soul to yahoo, ***** him.
- septicmadman, on 10/11/2008, -2/+10He is referencing AppleTV more so than the ipod...
- consonance, on 10/11/2008, -0/+7***** says he's busy. Call back another time.
- RavenG4, on 10/11/2008, -1/+8If this is announced Oct. 14, I'll definitely get one. Shame it won't be. ;[
- usingpond, on 10/11/2008, -6/+13Worked pretty well for iPods and Macs.
- skywake, on 10/11/2008, -0/+6I'd rather spend ~$500AU... *thinks about current AUD value* make that $1million AU and build myself a quiet Multimedia PC that has no restrictions at all. Sit that next to my TV and BAM networked HDTV!
- usingpond, on 10/11/2008, -1/+6Calling *****.
- limezor2, on 10/11/2008, -1/+6Sony is already making these.
- mrsteveman1, on 10/11/2008, -0/+5Apple uses intel chips.......
- mrsteveman1, on 10/11/2008, -3/+8Well then, if they overcharge no one will buy one. It's called capitalism, it works.
- inactive, on 10/11/2008, -1/+5Did you see how bad the Apple TV failed? This isn't that different.
- kosmoX, on 10/11/2008, -0/+4Yup. We just a 52" Bravia in at Sam's Club that has a little external box that can stream Internet video to the TV.
- kipmartin, on 10/11/2008, -3/+7id hate to see your living room.
- mrsteveman1, on 10/11/2008, -2/+6Computers were a commodity (and still are) until Apple carved out a niche back in ~1998 (about the time they stopped being COMPLETELY incompetent and switched to just being small for a few years).
MP3 players are a commodity now as well, and yet here we are with Apple pumping out new stuff people actually want to pay for. - impedance101, on 10/11/2008, -0/+4Even cinemas with higher refresh rate pictures would be a step in the right direction.
- mrsteveman1, on 10/11/2008, -0/+4That's an issue with the content owners restraining apple from selling the same drm-free tracks everyone else does. Just use another mp3 store and there aren't any problems.
Video is another issue, no one sells drm-free video and the only way to get it on the ipod is to get it from itunes because apple doesn't license fairplay. - inactive, on 10/11/2008, -6/+9Holy *****, a 1200px vertical ad for a movie in safari. What has digg.com come to?
That aside, last thing I need is a ridiculously expensive iTv that I'll never watch because TV is loaded with ***** of *****. TV is something I loathe. I was born in 1980, to give ya'll a time reference, my family members of the previous generation run the TV constantly, they make a habit of watching the thing religiously. Most people of that generation watch TV *daily*, often upwards for 4 hours or more(no wonder the boomers have tossed the economy in the trashcan). How disturbing. Folks often arrange their schedule around the ***** box.
I have a 30" lcd TV. It only gets turned on at most 4 times a month. Sometimes I want to play a show from my laptop. I have no cable. All TV watching is streamed over the net. Other times I use it to play a game on the xbox, wii, dreamcast or cd32, but thats rare. iCould care less. Love OS X though. - Jeral, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3My year old HP TV already does this... +internet radio... oh well, if it ever were made, there will be those who buy it...
- sinnix, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3Will this be coming out at the same time as the new multi-touch tablet?
- Angostura, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3Thank goodness Blueay doesn't have any DRM in it, right?
- michaelrsa, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3Very nice, now they just need to improve the video quality of Hulu and South Park Studios and I will be content.
- petard, on 10/11/2008, -2/+5Why not make the TV UPnP compatible? Both Windows and Mac have UPnP servers, and we already have UPnP viewers like the 360 and PS3 in place.
- Giga, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3Did you really find your own joke so amusing that you had to lol twice?
- Nouman6, on 10/11/2008, -1/+4you mean plastic, version 2 will be aluminum
- mharroun, on 10/11/2008, -9/+12So its a poor imitation of what a HTPC or even an xbox or PS3 is capable of and is locked into apples propriety drm and crap.
I will now be dugg down by apple fanboys for flaming this new and "revolutionary" device. - MacParrot, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2"At least MS is willing to license their DRM to third parties."
You say that like it's a GOOD thing. - Balanced, on 10/11/2008, -2/+4That's nice. You are presumably not the target market for this (rumored and in my opinion unlikely) device.
- jperdomo, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2I am better much an Apple fanboy as I type this on my Macbook Air, with my Mighty Mouse and my iPhone sitting next to me as I type but, come on...
Why must we pee our pants about a product that doesn't exist, at a price point thats not even mentioned, in an article that is nothing more than rumors. I could duct tape an Apple TV to the back of my current LCD and get the same result. - navvvv, on 10/11/2008, -1/+3Yeah, because Windows and the X Box contains no DRM whatsoever...
- MacParrot, on 10/11/2008, -0/+21. You actually don't know how to or that you should back up digital content? And you expect us to listen to or believe whatever crap you're saying?
2. You never owned an AppleTV
3. There is no 3 - craeyon, on 10/11/2008, -1/+3SWEET I have to buy more DRM protected media that comes in one nazi media/format and which I will eventually lose when I reformat and I will have to buy hardware which won't be able to play formats like the most important HD formats floating around - the Russian mkv format.
I'll stick to my Blu Rays and PS3 thank you very much.
Apple please stick to the laptops you were working on, you had us excited there, don't try to wander off. Please. - ErickStevenson, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2You sure? Your talking about apple, if they make an FM radio it's an innovation!
Jokes aside, would be interesting to see this and how much it will cost. - zdiggler, on 10/11/2008, -2/+4Sony LCD TV stream movies form network now.
- inactive, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2lol, *****
- mlerner, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2Let me guess, no DIVX? lame.
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