Re: 5 Things AppleTV needs to be a MUST BUY by Apple Gazette

[Michael Winter]

On Apr 6, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote:

> #5 would be nice, but is easily overcome.  You can easily rip the  
> dvd.  It would be nice to chuck the dvd player though as well.

That's the one I want, just a simple built-in DVD drive. If you rip a  
DVD (I think) you still need to transcode it for streaming. I want to  
be able to just put a disk in the AppleTV and push play. Yes it would  
add to the cost, but probably less than having to also have a stand- 
alone DVD player with cables...

-Mike