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

[Kevin Callahan]

On Apr 7, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Charlton Wilbur wrote:

> There's an old joke -- a music lover is someone who listens to the  
> music; an audiophile is someone who listens to the stereo equipment.
>
> Artifacts of compression are pretty easy to hear, but the quality  
> of the recording is only one factor in the quality of the music,

this is why I'd like to stream YouTube vids to my AppleTV (were I to  
buy one) --

sure, the quality is often piss-poor, but there's content there I  
can't find elsewhere

  we had friends here a couple of weeks ago -- and after watching a  
movie, we spent 2+ hours watching clips of jazz artists from the 40-60s

video and audio quality was generally mediocre to poor, but the clips  
were well-worth watching - entertaining and edifying


The iPhone can run Safari, why can't AppleTV ?   Yeah - no keyboard  
interface for AppleTV for navigation/search .. but

Or at least, I'd hope Apple could add a YouTube feed in FrontRow for  
AppleTV

I know I'll get a lot of flack for saying that -- but I'm just going  
by my usage and by what students/friends and family are saying to me  
when we talk about AppleTV.

There are tools for capturing YouTube vids and converting them to a  
format FrontRow can display, but that's not a process that lends  
itself to real-time entertainment.

I'd like a Mac Mini with a Core 2 Duo chip (or better), with AE_n  
support and AppleTV ports (and software) - and preferably, with  
support for dual display.  Would allow one to display photos, music,  
movies, DVDs and ripped DVDs ... ability to control the  
volume :-) ..  vend other media that is only available over the web  
via the browser, as in streams (BBC Motion Gallery) etc. etc.

I'd pay a grand for such a media center.    I'm considering buying an  
iMac for an media center, but I really don't want to pay for a  
display I don't need. I have a Cinema 23 and an Optoma projector  
system.  I just need a computer to run the show.