Apple TV as "Home Server"

[Jim Witte]

>> On Feb 12, 2007, at 6:31 AM, Michael Winter wrote:
>>> I really wish they would put one in. Otherwise I still need a DVD  
>>> player connected in somewhere along the line. I
>> I think this would affect the price point. Not just because of the  
>> drive itself, but because of the hit on power, heat
> True . . .but I don't think it would really affect it that much  
> from a hardware perspective. From SW

   What if they included a dual ("tru-el"??) BluRay/HD-DVD/DVD drive  
(do these exist yet?  I thought I read somewhere there was someone  
making a dual BluRay/HD-DVD drive)  Although, isn't Apple firmly in  
the BluRay camp now?

   IMO, I wish they'd separate the physical tech from the software:  
people seem to like BluRay for it's physical tech and maybe the Java  
thing, and HD/DVD because of AACS..  Why not just combine the two?   
By the time this is is mid-swing, there will be something bigger  
anyway probably (two-layer HVD anyone?)