Also note that you have to "hack" an AppleTV box to get the most out of it. Otherwise, it can be just as frustratingly limited as a stock Tivo or a stock DTV PVR.
That's a pretty big if. Same problem applies to Netflix and Amazon.
That is why the CEO of DTV is not worried. There are far too many holes in what iTunes offers. Even if you wanted to cut the cord, you might find that it simply isn't possible without making some serious compromises.
If you are someplace where there's something worth looking at, 300 pictures is nothing. Also, you take more than you are going to keep to better ensure that you end up with results that are worth keeping.
Current tech makes it easy. Makes it easy to take them, to accumulate them, and to cull them later.
Also, there is nothing "burdensome" about taking in a place well enough to take some good pictures of it.
Just buy MORE INTERNAL STORAGE. Beef up your devices so that they can store as much stuff as you are going to generate while you are traveling.
That way you avoid all of the Cloud nonsense and it's limitations.
The simplest solution is to avoid the problem. I did the same thing with my own devices recently to avoid this very sort of problem and it worked out very well.
It allows one unit of bandwidth to serve 300 million customers at the same time.
It's O(c) versus O(n).
What's monthly your bandwidth cap? My cable service can deliver 3TB of HD h264 video in a month. That's my current PVR setup. If I had more tuners, that number would be higher.
> - Apple TV. This is what the kids hit first when looking > for something to watch. Mostly Netflix cartoons, our > Vimeo home videos, and our Photo Stream. We have > never purchased or rented a program from Apple!
The kid found a new show he liked on Netflix. Unfortunately, it turned out that Netflix only has 2 out of 10 seasons of that show. So after watching those 2, it was back to PVR.
Dinosaurs 1 - Netlix 0
The grandparents also dropped streaming from their Netflix account when the price hikes were announced.
Dinosaurs 2 - Netflix 0
If you don't really care what it is you watch, you could just use an antenna.
Different circumstances have different requirement different challenges. You can't just conflate the two. No amount of wishful thinking will alter that.
I have an AppleTV and I'm not impressed. While the devices are cheap, the selection is limited. Your average viewer is not going to compromise. They will see that they can't get current episodes of "some random show" and that will end their love affair with Apple real quick.
Roku has the same problem. So does Netflix.
No amount of "design magic" will help them this time.
No. But a full blown AppleTV can be dismissed as a toy for not being able to tune or decode a TV broadcast, play a raw DVD or BD file, or play your very own home videos just pulled off your USB camera or smartphone.
> a tenuous moral justification for what was arguably cold-blooded murder.
Is that you George?
It takes a real bleeding heart mindset addled with age to come up with a gem like that.
What Greedo was doing is called assault with a deadly weapon. What Han did was self defense in any civilized country. No justfication was required. Someone was pointing a gun at him.
Greedo would have.
Now gunning down an unarmed man is something else. That will get you shot by the sheriff in any western.
> Except that X thousand people buy new TVs every year.
Other companies that actually make TVs are already seeing demand fall off. The big forced upgrade is over with now and people are generally resisting further attempts to create another one.
People arne't that rich and the economy isn't that good either.
It's Apple and the rest of the cabal that don't have all of the pieces. ALL of them are at the mercy of content owners that may not want to cooperate and network owners that may not want to cooperate.
Those are also the same companies that are the incumbents.
Where is this mythical free rid of yours? There is none.
As the one making the original claim, it's up to you to back up your argument. Bragging about the fact that you are great at trolling,really doesn't help your argument one bit.
Most people already "rent" shows. They watch them once and forget about it. That is how the cable pricing model can work. The marginal cost of a single show rental is cheap enough.
Now forcing people to only rent can add up quick.
However, that's only a problem if you force them to only rent and never to buy. If Apple was giving people one-and-only-one option, I could see how that might not go over well.
The cost of the extra box is miniscule. The real problem with AppleTV as it relates to DirecTV is lack of content. There are any number of things on cable you might be interested in that aren't available on iTunes or Amazon.
The Beatles, Star Trek, and everything made by DeMille should be in the public domain by now. It all should be free for the taking. A lot of what is on TPB should be legal. Much of what you get fed on broadcast and cable television should be PD.
That's the futuristic nightmare that Disney et al want to prevent.
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Also note that you have to "hack" an AppleTV box to get the most out of it. Otherwise, it can be just as frustratingly limited as a stock Tivo or a stock DTV PVR.
The original claim that triggered the "irrational response" was never adequately supported. Therefore we can reasonably ignore it.
Whining about the "irrational response" won't change that.
Then "you" don't really watch just 2 or 3 shows.
The smaller the household, the more likely you can get buy with a tiny vendor supplied PVR or iTunes.
iTunes is fine if it has what you watch.
That's a pretty big if. Same problem applies to Netflix and Amazon.
That is why the CEO of DTV is not worried. There are far too many holes in what iTunes offers. Even if you wanted to cut the cord, you might find that it simply isn't possible without making some serious compromises.
> That's a terrible idea, and frankly I'm a little surprised someone with a 4-digit UID would say this.
I simply bothered to read the details of the use case.
Been there. Done that. Been there again.
Your hysterical ranting about "valuable data on mobile devices" is really funny.
If you are someplace where there's something worth looking at, 300 pictures is nothing. Also, you take more than you are going to keep to better ensure that you end up with results that are worth keeping.
Current tech makes it easy. Makes it easy to take them, to accumulate them, and to cull them later.
Also, there is nothing "burdensome" about taking in a place well enough to take some good pictures of it.
Dropbox probably isn't going to work.
Just buy MORE INTERNAL STORAGE. Beef up your devices so that they can store as much stuff as you are going to generate while you are traveling.
That way you avoid all of the Cloud nonsense and it's limitations.
The simplest solution is to avoid the problem. I did the same thing with my own devices recently to avoid this very sort of problem and it worked out very well.
Broadcast IS a superior distribution channel.
It allows one unit of bandwidth to serve 300 million customers at the same time.
It's O(c) versus O(n).
What's monthly your bandwidth cap? My cable service can deliver 3TB of HD h264 video in a month. That's my current PVR setup. If I had more tuners, that number would be higher.
> - Apple TV. This is what the kids hit first when looking
> for something to watch. Mostly Netflix cartoons, our
> Vimeo home videos, and our Photo Stream. We have
> never purchased or rented a program from Apple!
The kid found a new show he liked on Netflix. Unfortunately, it turned out that Netflix only has 2 out of 10 seasons of that show. So after watching those 2, it was back to PVR.
Dinosaurs 1 - Netlix 0
The grandparents also dropped streaming from their Netflix account when the price hikes were announced.
Dinosaurs 2 - Netflix 0
If you don't really care what it is you watch, you could just use an antenna.
Different circumstances have different requirement different challenges. You can't just conflate the two. No amount of wishful thinking will alter that.
I have an AppleTV and I'm not impressed. While the devices are cheap, the selection is limited. Your average viewer is not going to compromise. They will see that they can't get current episodes of "some random show" and that will end their love affair with Apple real quick.
Roku has the same problem. So does Netflix.
No amount of "design magic" will help them this time.
No. But a full blown AppleTV can be dismissed as a toy for not being able to tune or decode a TV broadcast, play a raw DVD or BD file, or play your very own home videos just pulled off your USB camera or smartphone.
> a tenuous moral justification for what was arguably cold-blooded murder.
Is that you George?
It takes a real bleeding heart mindset addled with age to come up with a gem like that.
What Greedo was doing is called assault with a deadly weapon. What Han did was self defense in any civilized country. No justfication was required. Someone was pointing a gun at him.
Greedo would have.
Now gunning down an unarmed man is something else. That will get you shot by the sheriff in any western.
> Except that X thousand people buy new TVs every year.
Other companies that actually make TVs are already seeing demand fall off. The big forced upgrade is over with now and people are generally resisting further attempts to create another one.
People arne't that rich and the economy isn't that good either.
An AppleTV works great as a big screen computer.
Unfortunately, Apple doesn't actually allow that. You have to jailbreak it just to get apps that are freely available on other PhoneOS devices.
It's even more restricted than regular iDevices.
DirecTV is the player that has all the pieces.
It's Apple and the rest of the cabal that don't have all of the pieces. ALL of them are at the mercy of content owners that may not want to cooperate and network owners that may not want to cooperate.
Those are also the same companies that are the incumbents.
You pay.
Apple pays.
Where is this mythical free rid of yours? There is none.
As the one making the original claim, it's up to you to back up your argument. Bragging about the fact that you are great at trolling,really doesn't help your argument one bit.
There are not enough of those kind of people around for old school big media to make a decent living on.
Most people already "rent" shows. They watch them once and forget about it. That is how the cable pricing model can work. The marginal cost of a single show rental is cheap enough.
Now forcing people to only rent can add up quick.
However, that's only a problem if you force them to only rent and never to buy. If Apple was giving people one-and-only-one option, I could see how that might not go over well.
Apple may have set themselves up to fail here.
If reruns are your thing, you may find iTunes sadly lacking. You're probably better off with a Tivo and either cable or an antenna.
Hulu might also be an option but that is infested with commercials.
The cost of the extra box is miniscule. The real problem with AppleTV as it relates to DirecTV is lack of content. There are any number of things on cable you might be interested in that aren't available on iTunes or Amazon.
Cost simply isn't the problem.
Neither is "technology".
If you watch only 2 or 3 TV shows regularly, then what are you doing with ANY cable service?
The Beatles, Star Trek, and everything made by DeMille should be in the public domain by now. It all should be free for the taking. A lot of what is on TPB should be legal. Much of what you get fed on broadcast and cable television should be PD.
That's the futuristic nightmare that Disney et al want to prevent.
My University paleo professor worked on those fossils.
I don't think he would describe them as "human".
The RIAA and MPAA are associations of middle men.