appleinsider.com — Want to watch DVDs on Apple TV? On May 8th, Roxio will introduce a new application called Crunch designed specifically to convert a variety of different video formats for use with iPods, Apple TV, and the soon to be released iPhone. Check out how Crunch stacks up against the existing video conversion alternatives in our exclusive 3-page review.
May 7, 2007 View in Crawl 4
meshmanMay 7, 2007
"Want to watch DVDs on Apple TV?"$300 is awful expensive for a DVD player and you're not watching a DVD but a compressed version of it. Why not spend $60 on a Phillips "play everything" DVD player and buy a box of DVD-RW's? It's cheaper, you can watch your DVD's AS DVD's and they'll play virtually any video format including DivX and PAL.
gallivaMay 8, 2007
Why I have to convert movies when I can install Perian on my Apple TV?
zxspectrumMay 8, 2007
o.k, let's use 3 apps - pay $50 - instead of just using handbrake....genius!
captainkMay 8, 2007
this is not an interesting story....besides, Handbrake does all of the above and its free!
roxicsMay 8, 2007
Oh I know, I have to convert to my iPod all the time.I just think that when it comes to something like the AppleTV I shouldn't have to go through that hassle.
onbolemanMay 8, 2007
VisualHub has been the best purchase I've made for my Mac. I have it set up so I can reencode "Creative-Commons" videos from torrents from divx to mpeg-2 and watch them on my Tivo. Very Shady, But also Very Easy.
faniMay 8, 2007
Although apple TV is great and all that - I've converted my older Xbox into Xbox MediaCenter and I cannot tell you how excited I am about it. I think Apple or MS should license XBMC and use it themselves. I cannot believe how superior it is to either offerings from MS or Apple.
skellenerMay 8, 2007
People bawk at the $29 QTPro fee. Why would they pay $50 for this product? It says it just uses QT to process the files anyway. Either go free with Handbrake or pay the $29 to Apple. There's no benefit to using this.
masskurecMar 1, 2009
roxio rocks<a class="user" href="http://xptweak.net">http://xptweak.net</a>