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Idly curious...
El Reg appears to think that the AppleTV v3 is a dead duck, according to this: "Apple TV: Third time unlucky, Mr Jobs: Going down for the last time."
I am somewhat inclined to agree.
I am not much of a TV watcher and my old hacked Xbox Media Centre does me fine for most of what I want. But what I wanted from Apple, as it were, was a lot more than any model of AppleTV ever offered. I wanted an Apple-simplified TV product, one that took away all the complexity from modern video playback. I wanted one, dead-simple box, that could receive, record and display terrestrial, terrestrial digital, cable and satellite, all in one idiot-proof box. It should also play DVDs, VideoCDs, BluRay disks, and any other form of local stored content, and it should attach to a network and play anything off any network share too, including streaming content off the web.
One little sealed black box that brought it all together, with a dead-easy single interface, and a dead-easy single remote control with just 5 or 6 buttons.
Saying that, I'm a cheapskate and I probably still wouldn't have bought one. But it would have appealed, a lot, which is more than any generation of AppleTV did.
But am I barking up the wrong tree? What would anyone else have liked to see? What's your dream device to plug into the telly and make life easier but richer?
El Reg appears to think that the AppleTV v3 is a dead duck, according to this: "Apple TV: Third time unlucky, Mr Jobs: Going down for the last time."
I am somewhat inclined to agree.
I am not much of a TV watcher and my old hacked Xbox Media Centre does me fine for most of what I want. But what I wanted from Apple, as it were, was a lot more than any model of AppleTV ever offered. I wanted an Apple-simplified TV product, one that took away all the complexity from modern video playback. I wanted one, dead-simple box, that could receive, record and display terrestrial, terrestrial digital, cable and satellite, all in one idiot-proof box. It should also play DVDs, VideoCDs, BluRay disks, and any other form of local stored content, and it should attach to a network and play anything off any network share too, including streaming content off the web.
One little sealed black box that brought it all together, with a dead-easy single interface, and a dead-easy single remote control with just 5 or 6 buttons.
Saying that, I'm a cheapskate and I probably still wouldn't have bought one. But it would have appealed, a lot, which is more than any generation of AppleTV did.
But am I barking up the wrong tree? What would anyone else have liked to see? What's your dream device to plug into the telly and make life easier but richer?
