How does that differ from just throwing your PC display up on your TV via your wireless network (other than it being limited to just the stuff on your i-device rather than everything your PC can do)?
Siri is a UI game changer
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How does that differ from just throwing your PC display up on your TV via your wireless network (other than it being limited to just the stuff on your i-device rather than everything your PC can do)?
AdmundfortGeographer
Getting lost in fantasy maps
An tv is about streaming video and audio content.
Stream movie rentals from iTunes to your TV,
stream TV show episodes from iTunes to your TV,
stream movie and TV show purchases from your PC or iPad or iPhone to your TV (Home Sharing)
stream Netflix to your TV,
stream YouTube and Vimeo to your TV,
stream video and audio podcasts to your TV,
stream sports season passes to your TV (MLB, NBA, NHL, . . .)
stream video or audio apps from an iPad, iPhone, iPod touch to your TV (AirPlay)
stream certain games on the iOS device to the TV screen to your TV (AirPlay mirroring)
Stream movie rentals from iTunes to your TV,
stream TV show episodes from iTunes to your TV,
stream movie and TV show purchases from your PC or iPad or iPhone to your TV (Home Sharing)
stream Netflix to your TV,
stream YouTube and Vimeo to your TV,
stream video and audio podcasts to your TV,
stream sports season passes to your TV (MLB, NBA, NHL, . . .)
stream video or audio apps from an iPad, iPhone, iPod touch to your TV (AirPlay)
stream certain games on the iOS device to the TV screen to your TV (AirPlay mirroring)
I can do nearly all of that without Apple TV. If it's on my PC I can throw it over to the TV screen.
AdmundfortGeographer
Getting lost in fantasy maps
Except AirPlay, totally. If you don't mind hauling your computer to the room with the TV and cabling it to the TV when you want to do that.
Plus, the Apple TV uses a 1/10 of the energy of a single 60W lightbulb and doesn't take up a computer-size amount of physical space.
They're both in the lounge anyway. And it's a wireless network; no cables involved. All I actually have to do is flip the TV to AV2 on the remote.
AdmundfortGeographer
Getting lost in fantasy maps
Nope. Only media living in an iTunes library on a running PC, or iTunes content streaming from an internet connection.
I've been praying for an update that lets an iTunes library live in a network share. Maybe someday. Just speculation, but it feels like Apple is moving more towards a model where all your content lives in the cloud and the Apple TV would just pull from that.
Just login with your cloud credentials on any Apple device and *boom* you have access to it all no matter where you are, at an Apple TV or at any iOS device or computer with iTunes. No need to a personal storage server. Gives me the willies not having the stuff on my own equipment, I'm controlling that way, but I also like knowing that my stuff isn't at the whims of distractive disasters or thefts.
Bringing it back to Siri, I can see a future A5-powered Apple TV with a mic in the remote powered by Siri. Siri needs an always on internet connection to access the servers that interpret the natural language, and an AppleTV has that. Mmmm.
So many things to comment on....
iTV can stream off shares, itunes lib, and from itunes store/icloud.
Xbox, ps3, wii do most of the same, except accesss apple stuff (itunes)
You can keep you itunes library on a file server and specify its path as a UNC. I use mine off my NAS share.
Siri on iTV would prolly be quite handy. A new remoteless big screen info center that you can talk to like star trek.
iTV can stream off shares, itunes lib, and from itunes store/icloud.
Xbox, ps3, wii do most of the same, except accesss apple stuff (itunes)
You can keep you itunes library on a file server and specify its path as a UNC. I use mine off my NAS share.
Siri on iTV would prolly be quite handy. A new remoteless big screen info center that you can talk to like star trek.
Fast Learner
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With an Apple TV (or other AirPlay device hooked up to your TV), you can do this wirelessly:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxj1QuKebdQ]Real Racing 2 Party Play - YouTube[/ame]
With many more such apps to come (including several I'm working on).
There's some very cool D&D stuff one could do with this, too.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxj1QuKebdQ]Real Racing 2 Party Play - YouTube[/ame]
With many more such apps to come (including several I'm working on).
There's some very cool D&D stuff one could do with this, too.
I by no means say that it isn't a useful tool. My bother had cerebral palsy as well, and while he could manage typing slowly, I'm certain he could have found a use for it, if my family could have afforded it.
But "has a use" is not equivalent to "complete game changer for everyone"
With respect... folks have been imagining that for decades. Asimov wrote of such stuff early in his career.
Here's the thing, as I look at it - my recollection is that Gartner research places smartphone sales, overall, as only 20% of the cell phone market in Q3 of 2010. The percentage is probably growing, but by no means a majority, and many of those sales are folks upgrading their phones, not new smartphone users. Many geeks think smartphone penetration is rather larger than it actually is, because geeks tend to be early adopters, so we tend to be surrounded by the things.
The lowest end iPhone 4S I can buy would be like $200, with addition of several hundred dollars extra per year of data plan on top of that. Talking to my house would require a substantial computer integrations into the electrical and heating systems - more money. We're talking thousands of dollars, in a bad economy.
The game doesn't change on the leading edge. The game changes in the mid-market, and that's a way off yet.
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