http://www.apple.com/appletv/ From how it describes its self it lets you watch the crap you downloaded on your TV. You know that thing that you can already do with 90% of all video cards and a s-video cable. All and all sounds very gay and pointless.
WIRELESS? The 40 gig drive is practically irrelevant when you can zap movies and music through the thing to your tv from anywhere in the house. The extra USB port on the back means you can add another HD to it too if you ever want more storage. How many people actually have TV's that support 1080p input right now? Not many…
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] $300 is expensive? For a wireless media player with Hi-def connections and a 40Gig hard disk? [/ QUOTE ] Considering the 360 can do all of this and more (albeit smaller drive), yes. The 360 just got IPTV functionality. You can already play Divx movies on it, as well as downloading HD TV and film from…
300 bucks isn't too much for a nice wireless connection like this. It's just another home theatre component that allows you to integrate your computer without having to wire everything. I've got multiple computers throughout my house with content I'd love to dump to my tv so this looks pretty cool to me.
[ QUOTE ] $300 is expensive? For a wireless media player with Hi-def connections and a 40Gig hard disk? [/ QUOTE ] Considering the 360 can do all of this and more (albeit smaller drive), yes. The 360 just got IPTV functionality. You can already play Divx movies on it, as well as downloading HD TV and film from Xbox Live.
[ QUOTE ] BOOO... - Version 2.0 will have 1080p and a 120Gig drive and the capacity for custom codecs and run smoothly at 1080p. [/ QUOTE ] I doubt it. if it's got the new mini-OSX onboard, and apple will probably release updates to quicktime, then you can almost certainly install the right codecs for it. (codecs for…