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

[Lawrence Sica]

On Apr 6, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Michael Winter wrote:

>
> 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...
>

Well a dvd costs under $100USD, it would cost more to add it the  
appleTV, not to mention the change in form factor and the like.

> -Mike
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