Comments on: Apple readying iTunes Store for Apple TV?

By: Geek Moment: AppleTV 160 Gig « My Internal Dialog by Saliva

Geek Moment: AppleTV 160 Gig « My Internal Dialog by Saliva — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:20:15 +0000

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By: Randy

Randy — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:43:52 +0000

I recently purchased the Apple TV 160 gb system….and am expecting it to be delivered in the next few day. I am seriously considering sending it back..unopened. The poor quality video supported resolutions are the reasons for that. I wrongly assumed that when Apple TV grabbed my iTune purchased data, audio and video, that viewing and listening to those items would be in HD quality. After doing some research, that is not the case. Apple seriously needs to address this issue. Why in the world would anyone purchase a system for a HD TV that doesn’t provide high-quality video resolution Wake up Apple!

By: GJD

GJD — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:17:06 +0000

Now that the iPhone is almost out of the door, Apple obviously has a few more engineers to spare for work on the AppleTV. The YouTube thing could be transferred to the iTMS, but there would need to be some way of ‘reverse-syncing’ your AppleTV to get content onto your Mac/iPod.

I’m with Justin on the content thing, I’m in the UK and we have next to no videos for purchase. I can’t help but feel that the network/studio distribution deals outside the US are just too delicate for Apple to tread on just now, but I don’t doubt they’re negotiating full time to get content for other territories.

I think the YouTube addition is a response to the lack of available content in mnay territories. And don’t forget that we’re seeing more and more HD-quality podcasts making their way onto iTMS. iTMS/RSS is a great distribution method, and would be even better if podcasts could be setup to download direct to the AppleTV.

By: Matt Linder

Matt Linder — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:45:07 +0000

I think your answer lies at about 2:30 in this video…

http://video.allthingsd.com/?bcpid=716692140&bclid=756513564&bctid=958522225

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:24:09 +0000

My question is…why have they bothered releasing - and marketing - the Apple TV in Australia at all, when it has virtually no use here without hacking it?

The Aussie iTunes store sells music…and that’s it. No nice collection of movies…no anime…no TV series…oh wait, we do have that neat collection of Pixar shorts.

I mean, I’m sure this has to do with US IP laws - most of the TV series, etc haven’t actually been released in Australia yet. The whole segmented market thing is another argument entirely (ech), which I won’t delve into here.

But why spend money running Apple TV ads on Australian television, when all you can do with it at the moment is essentially use it to watch video podcasts on your television…erm…neat, but not $600AU worth of neat.

I s’pose I could use it to watch music videos (but that’s what Rage is already for)…or to rip and aggregate my own DVDs (again, is $600 really worth eliminating the tiny effort of getting up and putting a DVD into the player?), or watch YouTube…$600?

(It feels really odd that I’m saying that the best justification for $600 is the opportunity to spend more money on media…but still…)

By: MacVortex

MacVortex — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:11:37 +0000

I think it is great Apple listening to their customers. My concern is the quality. If Apple will allow other video formats I might go and buy an AppleTV after all.

By: Neven Mrgan

Neven Mrgan — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:04:37 +0000

Apple often dips their toe to test the water before they go in. I think you’ve got something there with the YouTube addition being a test-drive to see how easy it is do browse/search a website using the Apple Remote.