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

[Kevin Callahan]

On Apr 7, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Lawrence Sica wrote:

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> 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.
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>>> 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
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>>  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
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>> video and audio quality was generally mediocre to poor, but the  
>> clips were well-worth watching - entertaining and edifying
>>
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>> The iPhone can run Safari, why can't AppleTV ?   Yeah - no  
>> keyboard interface for AppleTV for navigation/search .. but


> 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.

Yeah - I know.  That's why there are many of us (not sure how many ,  
4 ? :-)  who would buy a Core 2 Duo, AE_n mac mini and dedicate it as  
the living room or studio PC and who are not buying the AppleTV due  
to its limitations as a media center.  But I realize, the AppleTV is  
not meant to be THE media center, but rather, a conduit from one or  
more media sources.

That said, there's a LOT of content that FrontRow doesn't like to  
vend .. or content that requires too much hassle before you can  
actually view the content.

Sure, there will be those who are happy just being able to vend  
FrontRow supported movies or music from one computer or another to  
AppleTV ... fills a small (?) niche, I suppose.


I may end up buying both a Mac mini and an AppleTV, but I won't buy a  
mini with AE_g when the AppleTV has "n" support.