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

[Lawrence Sica]

On Apr 7, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

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> On Apr 7, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Charlton Wilbur wrote:
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>> 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,
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> this is why I'd like to stream YouTube vids to my AppleTV (were I  
> to buy one) --
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> 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
>

Running safari with that remote?  No thanks.  Also AppleTV is not  
aimed for that.  It does one thing, stream content from the mac to  
the appleTV and play it on the TV.  It's not meant to be a living  
room PC.  It's an appliance, think DVD player, think VCR, think  
Surround Sound Receiver. It's like the iPod, more features will come,  
but nothing to jeopardize it's core functions.

You can already watch trailers on the appleTV, so who knows maybe  
they will work some sort of deal with google over youtube.  But the  
quality needs to go up by leaps and bounds before it would be worth it.

--Larry