Comments on: Just why would I want an iTV? http://gigaom.com/apple/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/ Fri, 25 May 2012 22:52:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Steve Newport http://gigaom.com/apple/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315404 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:12:42 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/05/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315404 You’re missing the point of what I think the iTV is for. You can still make use of the iTV AND your Mini. I think the eventual Holy Grail will be to have EVERY type of media you own stored in your huge 50 terabyte hard-drive in the basement (that is of course backed-up daily via online methods). This way, all the space that storage and processing power takes up can be tucked away out of site. It can then be distributed to anywhere in the house you need it (wirelessly of course) via the Airport Express, or iTV, or whateverthehell-else they come up with. The iTV will of course be siginificantly smaller than your mini, because it won’t have to house any storage. This way you can go tuck your mini somewhere in the basement and have it send all your audio to your speakers in any room of the house, or all your stored video to any TV in the house.

Depending on how fast the internet and wireless can get, you may not even need that central computer/hard-drive, and just use services such as Rhapsody to have access to practically every song/movie ever made whenever you want, wherever you want.

So the iTV is not at competition with the mini (or any other entertainment center for that matter. It simplifies it into a tiny little component that speaks to your entertainment center stored away to keep your living room and bedroom as spacious as possible.

]]> By: Thugbot http://gigaom.com/apple/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315403 Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:37:51 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/05/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315403 Simple reason for me (and I suspect many others) to buy and iTV: I hooked my Mini up to my parents plasma, did a slideshow, a movie of my brother’s kids, played background music for a family gathering through the stereo, and played a DVD of Dora episodes later in the afternoon to keep the kids entertained. Both my parents have Macs (A G5 for my Dad and my Mom uses a Mac Book Pro) and a media vault to share music and pictures. They don’t have the technical know-how (nor do I want to remotely support) them having a Mac Mini as a media server. Everything is inplace, but they need a simple / clean / easy way to get access to all their stuff for visitors and parties. iTV will be the bridge for the non technical. I’m thankful that it’s coming. One less thing for me to have to teach my folks. Frankly I’ll buy one, because it’s one less thing I need to worry about for my setup as weel. I don’t feel like dropping a new Mini in to do my sharing.

]]> By: Michael http://gigaom.com/apple/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315402 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:08:28 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/05/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315402 errr.. can’t edit my last comment. I probably will be purchasing an iTV because it does exactly what I want a media box to do, talk to my iTunes library.. since I prefer to use the mini seated at a desk in my office. As prices come down on the 360, I may lean towards it, because of the HD-DVD player.

]]> By: Michael http://gigaom.com/apple/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315401 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:01:03 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/05/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315401 Personally, I’m not a fan of computing from the couch. I tried the mini hooked up to my 50″ Samsung DLP (1080p), web-browsing/emailing/etc was too painful.. mini went back to my desk. Funny thing, I bought the mini to use as media machine, but soon discovered that I liked using it as a real computer much better, more so than my PC. They’re pretty kickass with 2gigs RAM.

As far as Apple’s business, I could care less if they keep cranking out products and spread themselves thin. I just want good products, and they’ve delivered. In terms of investing, current stock price is strictly for the speculators, not investors.

]]> By: David http://gigaom.com/apple/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315400 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:02:00 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/05/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315400 You also need to consider your display. If you have an older TV or display with no DVI input, being able to use the component connection or HDMI represents a great benefit for using an iTV. It also allows you to put an older Mac, such as a G3 or older G4 which does not have the grunt to handle video display, into service as a storage device.

]]> By: Matt http://gigaom.com/apple/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315399 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:08:37 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/05/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315399 I am also in the same boat. I currently do not own a mac mini but within the next few months I plan to purchase one as a media center for my TV, which will be around the same time the iTV comes out. My girlfriend and I are both laptop users and it seems for the $300 more it costs for the mini I can get a lot more for my buck.

]]> By: Johan Cloetens http://gigaom.com/apple/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315398 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:03:55 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/05/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315398 Having external access to those media in an interesting way:
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]]> By: Honza http://gigaom.com/apple/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315397 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:57:13 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/05/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315397 @Boo… Thats why I use Xbox Media Centre (on an Xbox of course). All my movies/music/photos stream from my Mac over the wifi. I haven’t found ONE movie format XBMC didn’t support (apart from RATDVD but thats a closed to windows format only).

]]> By: Boo http://gigaom.com/apple/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315396 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:23:37 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/12/05/just-why-would-i-want-an-itv/#comment-315396 I user the mini the same way and after using different kinds of ready-made media centers i can definitely agree that none of them will ever be better as fully functional computer – Front Row is nice and i use it as much as i can, but hey no player supports all the types of files – not even VLC ;)

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