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Anonymous — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:11:00 -0000

Back in the day when film was king, a high quality slide projector and screen would set you back $500, easy. And all you could do with it was display your own photography.

(P.S. I am the same guy who made the comment about my father above, I've just been talking to him more about it.)

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Anonymous — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:49:00 -0000

To the previous poster, there are already reports of an Xvid hack...

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Anonymous — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:34:00 -0000

You know what else everyone is missing? This device is a High Definition instant slideshow machine. It just about doubles the value of your digital camera, which up until now has been spinning its wheels creating huge resolution files which you 90% of the time show to other people after converting to 640x480 or some such emailable format. What a let down. Why not just invite them over to sit in front of your Apple TV?

My father is a non-techie who has just discovered digital photography, and he says that he would pay $300 for an iPhoto-to-HDTV conduit *alone*.

People really, really don't get it. There is a lot of pent-up energy at this interseciton, and Apple TV releases it, much as the iPod did with people's MP3 collection.

The only cloud over the Apple TV's future is the lack of DivX support -- but even without this, it will be successful. Just ask my dad. With it, it would be the most successful video device of the decade.

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Anonymous — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:36:00 -0000

You get it!

I forecast the AppleTV will get user-controlled direct access to iTS when Apple releases a touch-screen remote control with a virtual keypad so you can enter text to search for content. Sound familiar? The iPhone, or next-gen iPod, or next-gen remote (release after iPhone of course) will fill this bill.

In the meantime, Apple is making available Top Hit previews and trailers today direct to the AppleTV from iTS. It's just a short hop to add free "discovery" episodes of TV shows.

Lastly, I don't think the AppleTV will ever get built-in DVR or DVD-player capability. Just like they did for music, Apple is setting up an alternative end-to-end channel for video content delivery and playback, bypassing broadcast, cable/telco, satellite, and physical media (DVDs). Tied in with the on-the-go iPod, this will be big.

mark

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louisgray — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:13:00 -0000

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