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Author: | pcernie [ Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:56 pm ] |
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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/32 ... ar-report/ It'll only show really tacky problems apparently ![]() |
Author: | big_D [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 4:04 am ] |
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puh! Come back in another 10 - 15 years, I've just bought a new TV. |
Author: | l3v1ck [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 7:56 am ] |
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Unlike MP3 players/mobile phones, I fail to see how Apple could improve the experience compared to other manufacturers. |
Author: | jonbwfc [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:22 am ] |
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It's idiotic analyst speculation, IMO, at least as far as it happening in the short term (in the long term, anything is possible I suppose). TVs are a commoditised market and there's no obvious use case where Apple's particular skills could be applied to manufacture a share in the way they have with iPhones and iPads. Connected TVs haven't taken off not because they're rubbish (although they could be better) but because there simply isn't a demand for them - it's much the same as 3D; it's the companies trying to convince people they need them, rather than people telling companies they want them. You can buy any TV you like and Apple will sell you a box for a relatively small sum that does everything Apple want it to do - i.e. allows you access to Apple's portal for selling/renting you stuff. How will building that into a TV, which they would have to sell at a much smaller margin than they generally operate at, benefit Apple? It won't. They'd have to deal with a whole new product line and probably make less profit than they do just selling AppleTVs. As for using Siri as the interface, anyone who makes that suggestion hasn't thought it through at all. Siri has a button on the ipPhone because otherwise it doesn't know if you're addressing your device. A Siri equipped TV would equally need 'a button' i.e.a remote control. So next to nothing gained overall. No. The bare fact is none of the analysts have a clue what Apple are going to do next. They never do, at least until the brink of it happening. ref: Pretty much all of them predicting that we'd see the iPhone 5 earlier this month. But they have to say something to try and justify their own existence, so they say the most obvious thing because it's the only thing their brains can cope with. Apple almost certainly has been prototyping 'Apple brand TVs' in R&D somewhere, probably since before we say the Apple TV. In fact, the fact Apple TV exists at all suggests Apple have already rejected the idea of an 'integrated television' as being something they don't want to do right now. Jon |
Author: | pcernie [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 10:56 am ] | |||||||||
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/2 ... elevision/ I just wouldn't wanna talk to my TV ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Author: | koli [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 11:35 am ] |
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iTV?! That can only mean one thing: ITV will get sued for a using apple's trademark ![]() ![]() |
Author: | Linux_User [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 11:38 am ] | |||||||||
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I was thinking ITV would sue Apple, but hey-ho. ![]() I certainly can't see Apple being allowed to call it "iTV" in the UK unless the broadcaster sanctions it. |
Author: | big_D [ Sat Oct 29, 2011 6:46 am ] |
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I hope it would be better than the Apple TV, the only way to put iti into "stand-by" mode is to yank the power cord. Selecting "off" from the settings menu only turns off the video output, the processor and hard drive still run at full speed! ![]() |
Author: | timark_uk [ Sat Oct 29, 2011 4:30 pm ] | |||||||||
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You don't seem to have a lot of luck with your Apple kit. Mark |
Author: | big_D [ Sun Oct 30, 2011 11:33 am ] |
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I asked about it shortly after buying my Apple TV, the answer was "working as intented", the Apple TV should never "sleep", otherwise, how will it pick up the changes to the media collection on my (powered off) iMac? |
Author: | timark_uk [ Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:05 pm ] |
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I don't really know how the first one works, but I own one of the second ones, and it works flawlessly with the media content on the iMac I use for streaming. Mark |
Author: | big_D [ Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:51 pm ] | |||||||||
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The first one works very differently and Apple designed it to not "sleep", but just turn off the video output when it isn't being actively watched. They also turn themselves back "on" again regularly (if you turn off the video output (power light off), then it will turn itself back on in a couple of days, at the latest), I assume so that it can sync when the connected iMac gets new content, so that it is there before you try and watch it. |
Author: | paulzolo [ Sun Oct 30, 2011 6:56 pm ] |
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That “r” word in the thread title should be “rumour” and not “report”. |
Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Tue Nov 01, 2011 10:49 am ] |
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I probably wouldn't wanna have to talk at my TV either - I have enough with talking to patients during the day to the point where I don't anyone to speak to me when I get home for at least 30 mins. To then have to talk to the TV would wind me up as much as having to hunt for the remote control. |
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