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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.
... watching grass grow!
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I know this is 'big news' and all that, but I really couldn't care less.
Beter to teach your kids how to read & use a browser than to watch TV, it's an unbelievable waste of time.
Pixie Rank ? WTF ??
Television, American Television, is the most anti-educational substance in the Universe. It's ludicrous, you can carry it in your pockets, on your hats, in the walls, in your body, all over your home, and watch it 7 hours out of your already small 24 hour day.
..........yet............
Bitch, please. I don't want TV. I don't want DVDs, I don't want my home to be invaded by the media, billboards, advertisement or any other bullshit. I just want to live my life like (what used to be) an ordinary person.
FUCK POPULAR CULTURE, or with all the inane insane Trekkie like fandom, POPULAR OCCULTURE??
Anyways, that's just my ten cents.
Oh and uh fuck apple too, they used to be cool, like 20 years ago. And no, I'm not a troll, I'm not here to crash the party here at slashdot, I'm just pissed off. And it isn't illegal to be pissed off while using this machine we call the internet.
> 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.
Apple would have to change its policy of sales, deberia to think but about consuming means. Their prices are crazy and amd or pentium will not be able to compete with. http://www.dovoyeur.com/ DoVoyeur
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?