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Apple Enters Media Center Domain

Posted by Zonk on from the another-front-in-the-battle dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNN has a story up describing Apple's new media center concept. The software takes on a classic Apple approach: simplicity. 'The program, called Front Row, lets you listen to music, watch videos, play DVDs and display photos from a distance with a few clicks of a lighter-sized, six-button remote control.'" More details available from ThinkSecret.

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  1. The Real Deal Apple's iVision. by LWATCDR · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple is going to buy Sega.
    The new iVision from Apple will include a TV tuner to provide TiVo like functions and an iPod Dock.
    Why is Apple going to by Sega?
    Games baby. The new iVision is going to support all of the old Sega games through emulations for the casual gamer plus get a bunch of new games from the Sega team.

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    See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
  2. What a yawn-fest by scuba_steve_1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Man, the media has a love affair with Apple. First, Apple doesn't even represent this product as a convergence device. They make the UI large and legible from a distance and give you a toy 6 button remote, but don't even come close to saying that it is a media PC alternative...which it is not. It cannot display, record, or timeshift a TV signal. Wow...pics on my TV. My consumer DVD player plays DVDs, WMAs, MP3s, and displays a range of images for slideshows. My TiVo is a timeshifting PVR that networks wirelessly to my PC for MP3 audio, image slideshows, and other TiVo-enabled applications, which I can develop myself in Java.

    An Apple low-end pseudo-media PC! Woot! Forgive me for feigning enthusiasm. Bash MS, but they have stepped to the plate with a media PC solution...or I can just build my own...or use the range of other consumer devices that I have mentioned above. Please, let's tone down the love fest until Apple actually starts to innovate in an area other than cute packaging. Until then...yawn.

  3. Re:Or.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    You really mean it. Poor soul. Apple-hating has hit you pretty hard. Had some traumatic experiences with your uncle's erect genital, too, I presume.

  4. Ho Hum... by ElitistWhiner · · Score: 0, Troll

    WTF... it just shows one indicator Jobs is not watching the shop anymore. What a brain dead unimpressive move on the market. Whoever's joianes is on the chopping block it will be interesting to watch the axe fall when Steve nixes this one.

    OK now, If this is the best Apple has to come up with for moving the brand forward into the future, I'll submit my resume. Geesh...