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AppleTV Hits the Streets
Stories are starting to pop up all over the web about the AppleTV, which evidently means that Apple has set loose the hounds of marketing and the units are (or will be tomorrow) available in Apple stores. Still no word on whether or not it plays DivX files. That will be the key to me purchasing one.
> Personally I will be waiting for GoogleTV, where it streams 24/7
> YouTube videos produced by amateurs.
That can be your wish but in fact it is right now impossible. No matter how you love Google the facts are that:
1. It is not possible to deliver such streaming via Internet - it is possible to handle that via backbones but on the client side DSL lines (the end line) are quite limited. And also I've read that DSL adoption is not so well in the US. Also 3G mobile telephony is not happening in the US.
2. Google is not in consumer electronics space. Google is not even in REAL WORLD space. Google is all about online business while they have nothing in real world - I mean when it was that you saw Google product in store? I bet that you have seen Apple computers and stuff quite a lot times. But Google stuff - you have seen it in your browser. So the point is that Google is not (and probably it never will) into selling something that you can touch. They sell service.
The real question is does it support actual streaming TV? I just bought a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 and use it with Media Center, and planned on getting an Xbox 360 anyway which just so happens to be a Media Center Extender. Does Apple's new little toy stream TV over the network?