pbs.org— At $299 the Apple TV is a pretty expensive video extender. This week's Cringely column has some interesting theories about that 40-gig hard drive inside the Apple TV. Peer-to-peer video network?
Feb 16, 2007View in Crawl 4
"Anyone who knows about wireless networking, (ie. me) can see the idiocy you wrote and immediately call you out on the *****." - 'wafffleWell, 'waffle, your brilliant expert opinion won't change the fact that I get dropouts with lossless music over 802.11g. If I lived in an apartment with my Mac one room away from the TV, I'd probably not have a problem. But my Mac is one floor up and 2 rooms (30+ feet) away from my Airport Express. Streaming my music at 192 kbps (instead of lossless) is (mostly) solid.Bottom line: many users are going to need 802.11n for reliable streaming video. Don't you think Apple would have been doing video streaming already if 802.11g had been sufficient?
"Here is what I think is happening with the Apple TV hard drive. I think sometime this summer Apple will ship a firmware upgrade for the Apple TV and it will suddenly gain an important new capability."Not if SOX has anything to say about that. Did Cringely pay attention to the airport n release?
f**k stupid people and their Holier Than Thou mentallity. I've yet to see an Apple computer that cannot perform the same functions as a PC, minus the games. And anybody who buys a Mac is not looking for playing the latest and greatest games but for a simple computer.Excuse me while I tinker in my Vista box whilst listening to an episode of House MD on my 80GB iPod video.
Don't EVER download movies with subtitles. Download the movie, THEN download subtitles seperately.Do a Google search for "[movie name] subtitles" and you'll find some. Look for the .SVT file, althought there are many others .TXT will also work.Then, when you are loading a file, look for "Subtitle Options". In VLC Media Player, you can hit:FileOpen FileHit Browse, select the MOVIE fileHit "Subtitle Options"Hit "Settings"Hit Browse, select the SUBTITLES fileChoose size and justification, I prefer them small and centeredLeave "Frames per Second" at 0, edit the delay if your movie isn't syncedThe advantage of this is you can easily change languages, disable the subtitles if they are bad, or turn them off if you want a screen cap. Also, you can edit the .SVT or .TXT file yourself, meaning if you get the occasional misspelled word, you can just open up the .SVT or .TXT file in, say, Notepad, and change it.
'scuse the previous postFrom the Apple site,"Apple TV does the same ? wirelessly, from wherever your Mac or PC may be."and"Open iTunes and Apple TV appears in your devices list, ready to sync. Set iTunes to sync unwatched TV shows, movies, and podcasts. Set it to sync new purchases."Explains everything really.Buffering data while streaming would also seem to be a sensible idea.
quixFeb 16, 2007
"Anyone who knows about wireless networking, (ie. me) can see the idiocy you wrote and immediately call you out on the *****." - 'wafffleWell, 'waffle, your brilliant expert opinion won't change the fact that I get dropouts with lossless music over 802.11g. If I lived in an apartment with my Mac one room away from the TV, I'd probably not have a problem. But my Mac is one floor up and 2 rooms (30+ feet) away from my Airport Express. Streaming my music at 192 kbps (instead of lossless) is (mostly) solid.Bottom line: many users are going to need 802.11n for reliable streaming video. Don't you think Apple would have been doing video streaming already if 802.11g had been sufficient?
cybersmackdownFeb 17, 2007
"Here is what I think is happening with the Apple TV hard drive. I think sometime this summer Apple will ship a firmware upgrade for the Apple TV and it will suddenly gain an important new capability."Not if SOX has anything to say about that. Did Cringely pay attention to the airport n release?
gir53457Feb 17, 2007
f**k stupid people and their Holier Than Thou mentallity. I've yet to see an Apple computer that cannot perform the same functions as a PC, minus the games. And anybody who buys a Mac is not looking for playing the latest and greatest games but for a simple computer.Excuse me while I tinker in my Vista box whilst listening to an episode of House MD on my 80GB iPod video.
gawtmilkFeb 17, 2007
Don't EVER download movies with subtitles. Download the movie, THEN download subtitles seperately.Do a Google search for "[movie name] subtitles" and you'll find some. Look for the .SVT file, althought there are many others .TXT will also work.Then, when you are loading a file, look for "Subtitle Options". In VLC Media Player, you can hit:FileOpen FileHit Browse, select the MOVIE fileHit "Subtitle Options"Hit "Settings"Hit Browse, select the SUBTITLES fileChoose size and justification, I prefer them small and centeredLeave "Frames per Second" at 0, edit the delay if your movie isn't syncedThe advantage of this is you can easily change languages, disable the subtitles if they are bad, or turn them off if you want a screen cap. Also, you can edit the .SVT or .TXT file yourself, meaning if you get the occasional misspelled word, you can just open up the .SVT or .TXT file in, say, Notepad, and change it.
foamcowFeb 19, 2007
'scuse the previous postFrom the Apple site,"Apple TV does the same ? wirelessly, from wherever your Mac or PC may be."and"Open iTunes and Apple TV appears in your devices list, ready to sync. Set iTunes to sync unwatched TV shows, movies, and podcasts. Set it to sync new purchases."Explains everything really.Buffering data while streaming would also seem to be a sensible idea.