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Apple TV has arrived. Here are our first-hand impressions.
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apple claims that appleTV allows you to easily enjoy itunes content on your
widescreen tv from up to five computers wirelessly. nothing more. nothing less.
remember. a lexus LS got a perfect 10 in your ratings, but it is terrible off-road
and you cannot retract the roof.....
apple claims that appleTV allows you to easily enjoy itunes content on your
widescreen tv from up to five computers wirelessly. nothing more. nothing less.
remember. a lexus LS got a perfect 10 in your ratings, but it is terrible off-road
and you cannot retract the roof.....
storing Mac OS X and for buffering video as it arrives. Your article makes it
sound like this is insufficient, when in fact it's more than enough. If people want
to play pirated movies in Windows Media containers, they can install VLC on it
(and they will, I'm sure). And contrary to what you say, Apple TV does support
MPEG 4 part 2 (aka DivX, XviD) it just doesn't support the WMV container.
storing Mac OS X and for buffering video as it arrives. Your article makes it
sound like this is insufficient, when in fact it's more than enough. If people want
to play pirated movies in Windows Media containers, they can install VLC on it
(and they will, I'm sure). And contrary to what you say, Apple TV does support
MPEG 4 part 2 (aka DivX, XviD) it just doesn't support the WMV container.
store. From my testing this includes: H.264, AVI (some, not all), WMVs (using the
Flip4Mac plugin on the Mac), ripped DVD VIDEO_TS folders, and ITMS purchased
content.
As mentioned, the display quality depends on the source quality. If the source is
crappy, then it will be even crappier when streamed and scaled to 720p. If the
source quality is good, then the image displayed by the Apple TV and your HD
TV will be good.
store. From my testing this includes: H.264, AVI (some, not all), WMVs (using the
Flip4Mac plugin on the Mac), ripped DVD VIDEO_TS folders, and ITMS purchased
content.
As mentioned, the display quality depends on the source quality. If the source is
crappy, then it will be even crappier when streamed and scaled to 720p. If the
source quality is good, then the image displayed by the Apple TV and your HD
TV will be good.
before Apple started selling music videos and before the iPod supported video.
Does Apple TV play all of the Quicktime formats that iTunes can play? If so, the
conversion thing described in the article will probably be a much smaller
problem.
before Apple started selling music videos and before the iPod supported video.
Does Apple TV play all of the Quicktime formats that iTunes can play? If so, the
conversion thing described in the article will probably be a much smaller
problem.
- "Out Of The Box" and not much more
- by berock March 23, 2007 5:34 AM PDT
- C'mon C|NET! This First Impression is like "The Making of 'The Making Of ...' ". I think we all know the challenges of shrink wrap. How about some real info?
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