Apple drops a bomb

[Fluffy]

Say goodbye to your cabinets and cabinets of DVDs/movies:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060912/ap_on_...digital_video_4


Set top box that will be an interface from your PC to your TV. Box will have Ethernet, USB and 802.11 interface to PC and the iTunes movie library. It then has Component video out, Digitial Audio out, and HDMI out from the box to your TV/Receivers/Speakers. Theoretically it should be able to play movies all the way up to 1080i resolution.

So, essentially, no more buying discs, just either download the movie you want onto your computer (including purchasing movies through iTunes as well), or rip the DVD from your current collection (or NetFlix, or Blockbuster online, yes, you Stav). Store the movies on your hard drive, no walls and walls of discs, no going out to the store to buy movies.

Better still, why bother buying the new Blue-Ray or HD-DVD players, when you can get the movie digitially on your PC and play it through this Apple set top box, all for $299.

They have basically just taking over....

 

[Tiveria]

One of my co-workers was listening to it.

I want the 24 hour battery life for my nano.

 

[Fluffy]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tiveria @ Sep 12 2006, 02:40 PM) [snapback]115444[/snapback][/center]

One of my co-workers was listening to it.

I want the 24 hour battery life for my nano.
[/b]

Fuck the batery life, Sony and Toshiba (pushers of the Blue-Ray and HD-DVD formats respectively, and pushers of people buying all this new equipment) are crying right now. This is going to change the economy of the home theater industry. You know what, it is about fucking time a concept this simple was finally implemented.

Oh, info about pricing for downloading movies from iTunes:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060912/tc_nm/apple_dc

 

[moobkrad]

Good, I already have most of my anime on my home server. :lol:
Shhh! Don't tell anyone.

Now Sony and Toshiba can concentrate on making Blue Ray Burner cheaper so we can burn all the movies we download.

 

[Zampy]

about fucking time!

 

[djmtott]

This is news? You guys didn't know about this or see it coming?

The only news in this is it appears Apple will be throwing themselves into the competition for this market.

This is the direction that gaming consoles are heading in anyway... big harddrives, advanced networking capability.

 

[Pawe]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(djmtott @ Sep 13 2006, 06:28 AM) [snapback]115509[/snapback][/center]

This is news? You guys didn't know about this or see it coming?

The only news in this is it appears Apple will be throwing themselves into the competition for this market.

This is the direction that gaming consoles are heading in anyway... big harddrives, advanced networking capability.
[/b]

The Phantom had that idea quite some time ago, turned out to be nothing more than an idea though..and the console never got made.

 

[djmtott]

In the not so distant future you'll be downloading/watching/playing all of your games and movies using one box

 

[moobkrad]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(djmtott @ Sep 12 2006, 01:55 PM) [snapback]115531[/snapback][/center]

In the not so distant future you'll be downloading/watching/playing all of your games and movies using one box
[/b]

The PC?!

 

[drache]

meh, geeks have been using their pcs for their home entertainment system for some time. now it's just branded and hooked into their online store. oh, and much more legal than the netflix copying I've been doing for 3 years.

i'm a big fan of mythTV, just haven't had the time to get it up yet.

I'm more interested in the next shuffle which is the size of a fingernail

good coverage here: http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/live-fr...e-its-showtime/

 

[djmtott]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MoobKrad @ Sep 12 2006, 02:13 PM) [snapback]115538[/snapback][/center]

The PC?!
[/b]

Yes and no.

On one hand you have the PC which can do all of the home entertainment tasks...

On the other hand you'll be having companies trying to sell you shiny boxes (think xbox 360/PS3) capable of all the home entertainment tasks...

Which one ending up becoming the norm is something we'll have to wait to see...

 

[whewa]

doing things this way makes so much sense....think about how much waste there is in packaging of movies, seriously the box is so much bigger than it needs to be....who decided to make movie boxes bigger than cd cases? that's all it needs. Anyways I saw this happening back when napster was the newest thing. It just took awhile to reach it.

 

[Fluffy]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Whewa @ Sep 13 2006, 08:30 AM) [snapback]115819[/snapback][/center]

doing things this way makes so much sense....think about how much waste there is in packaging of movies, seriously the box is so much bigger than it needs to be....who decided to make movie boxes bigger than cd cases? that's all it needs. Anyways I saw this happening back when napster was the newest thing. It just took awhile to reach it.
[/b]

LOTS of licencing and other processes had to be ironed out before the hardware could even start to be developed. So, technology wasn't holding this up, the lawyers were.

Oh, and if this came out in 97' then there wouldn't be any HDMI in this thing.

 

[moobkrad]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(djmtott @ Sep 12 2006, 06:36 PM) [snapback]115647[/snapback][/center]

Yes and no.

On one hand you have the PC which can do all of the home entertainment tasks...

On the other hand you'll be having companies trying to sell you shiny boxes (think xbox 360/PS3) capable of all the home entertainment tasks...

Which one ending up becoming the norm is something we'll have to wait to see...
[/b]

There are many advantages PCs (Mac & IBM) have over consoles. Even with the new ones. The only thing which makes the consoles worthy of buying is the Game Content. If all the titles available existed for the PC as well, I'm sure the consoles won't sell. As long as companies keep making exclusive titles for a certain console, there will never be one alone. Unless someone comes with an emulator for PCs, then you'll have only one, but those are usually illegal.

 

[whewa]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MoobKrad @ Sep 13 2006, 05:37 PM) [snapback]116058[/snapback][/center]

There are many advantages PCs (Mac & IBM) have over consoles. Even with the new ones. The only thing which makes the consoles worthy of buying is the Game Content. If all the titles available existed for the PC as well, I'm sure the consoles won't sell. As long as companies keep making exclusive titles for a certain console, there will never be one alone. Unless someone comes with an emulator for PCs, then you'll have only one, but those are usually illegal.
[/b]

the reason that they make games for consoles and why people buy them is because it puts a limit on the hardware a game needs. PC games went down hill because to play the new games you needed a new computer close to every year.

 

[Guest]

I don't understand what the point of this thing is. Can't we already hook up our TV's to a PC through the TV outputs on a graphics card?

 

[Merlyn]

acer "idea" home entertainment / computer system woot

 

[Fluffy]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hippo @ Sep 14 2006, 12:46 AM) [snapback]116119[/snapback][/center]

I don't understand what the point of this thing is. Can't we already hook up our TV's to a PC through the TV outputs on a graphics card?
[/b]

You have a component out and digitial out and HDMI out of your PC? You can stream movies directly from your library out to your TV?

 

[moobkrad]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Fluffy @ Sep 14 2006, 07:43 AM) [snapback]116287[/snapback][/center]

You have a component out and digitial out and HDMI out of your PC? You can stream movies directly from your library out to your TV?
[/b]

Yes sir, let the computer be your home theater as well. Surround sound, and all the goodies.

 

[Fluffy]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MoobKrad @ Sep 14 2006, 01:23 PM) [snapback]116495[/snapback][/center]

Yes sir, let the computer be your home theater as well. Surround sound, and all the goodies.
[/b]

Yeah you stream them out in what format? what resolution? Betcha it sucks compared to DVD/Blue-Ray/HD-DVD.

Not only that, with this device from apple, you can do it wireless. So no cable between your TV and PC, and shown in 480i/720i/or even 1080i theortically. Nothing you have now can do that.