Comments on: Apple TV: Good idea, terrible execution

By: Martin Varsavsky

Martin Varsavsky — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:18:16 +0000

Great info Jens, thanks!

By: Riviera

Riviera — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:02:59 +0000

Vaya chabola! Besides that, I agree with many others. MythTV is a superior product, and much more flexible.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:11:39 +0000

Tienes muy buen gusto, me encanta la sala multimedia. La idea fue tuya o del arquitecto? (siento que el comment quede tan asquerosamente pelota).

By: Ernest Otte

Ernest Otte — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:22:22 +0000

Why would you buy a product like Apple TV? Never stumbled upon a product called the TVIX 5×00 series? It’s made by the folks of DVICO. Try their new 4100/5100 series. Plays everything. No more conversion. Add your own harddisk or play through a NFS NAS.

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By: Antoin O Lachtnain

Antoin O Lachtnain — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:00:23 +0000

Martin, it would be great to get your views on mythtv (in your copious spare time).

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Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:34:08 +0000

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By: andres

andres — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:00:55 +0000

Nice multimedia room Martin, is bigger than my garden, but my garden is greener…

And the reflections about apple’s products again: walled garden (like mine), and perfect product with a couple of hacks: a 500 GB HD and a non walled software…

People thinks that windows is the monopoly, but the efforts that apple are making lately to become a monopoly and being a tirany with their own customers will take them to the point that at the end they will have as customers people that think that they are smart, not the really smart users…

By: Dario Cukier

Dario Cukier — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:49:49 +0000

MythTV is the way to go!

By: pacopalmas

pacopalmas — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:21:17 +0000

Good review but some points to rethink:

Although it´s not legal downloading P2P copyrighted movies, I don´t think it´s a good idea to promote it in a video blog. (SGAE is not friendly, Martin).

Second, an apple TV is like an ipod with WIFI. MP3 is universal audio format for digital music (I know about Fraunhofer license) but quicktime (H.264) is NOT UNIVERSAL for video. What would you think if it would play Divx/Xvid?

Third, what about wifi connection, HDMI, RGB, SPDIF, remote control? It´s easy, isn´t it? Then it´s an Apple hardware.

Opening the Apple TV to Divx/Xvid and a huge hard disk drive would be worth of every euro, in the meantime, iTunes is the only option…or NOT?