Comments on: 5 Things AppleTV needs to be a MUST BUY

By: 30 Days of AppleTV - Day 28 by Apple Gazette

30 Days of AppleTV - Day 28 by Apple Gazette — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:16:46 +0000

[...] read a lot on that subject online, and have tried to steer clear of it, and even wrote a post on it myself outside of this 30 day review, but instead of talking about what I want to see, I’m going to [...]

By: Tatnasty

Tatnasty — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:05:13 +0000

DVR – DVR – DVR!

By: LMW

LMW — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:20:47 +0000

I was wondering if you can have more than one AppleTV synced to one PC/MAC? I don’t see why not but thought I’d ask the question.
A feature that I would really like is to be able to have multiple AppleTV’s that all sync together and play the same music at the same time.
E.g. I’m thinking of having an AppleTV in my living room, and an AppleTV connected to my TV in my Kitchen/Diner. I want to be able to play the same music in both rooms, and change what is playing from either.
Thought anyone?

By: RatA

RatA — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:51:09 +0000

Divx/Xvid or what ever the “underground” stolen defacto standard is for the Wintel crowdâ€¦I could give a ratsass about that!

DVD jukebox-like place for my 100′s of “retail” discs would be great and an AppleTV could go in the theater room, kitchen and bedroomâ€¦clean, no clutter and everyone could watch what they want.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:27:05 +0000

I like them all, and completely agree, but lowering the price, especially if they add the features you listed above I think the current price would be fine.

By: Anon E. Mouse

Anon E. Mouse — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:24:53 +0000

divx/xvid support – the ipod would have been a complete failure without mp3 support. As the AppleTV will be without divx which is the defacto standard for high-quality internet video today.

Svideo/Composite connections – Its strange to be selling sub standard-def content, for a device that basically requires a high-def television. People will pay for convenience, but the quality should at LEAST match DVD – it doesnt, it doesnt even come close, and MPEG2 dvds shouldnt be able to hold a candle to H264 content. Its a shame really – the quality is terrible.

Purchasing content directly from the device is a no-brainer as well.

Unfortunately the AppleTV is a very very poor implimentation, of what could, and will be the next big market. Apple can and should do much much better than this. If they ever get it right, the AppleTV will make the iPhone look like a drop in the revenue bucket.

By: WillGonz

WillGonz — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:12:45 +0000

I buy DVD’s because I want the extra content. iTunes does not provide that. I would like to store all my DVD’s on a hard drive, so I can call them up whenever I want. I don’t care if they are encrypted. It would be nice if the Apple TV would let you do that and retain the DVD menus. Maybe rip the DVD’s and then store them in a compressed encrypted format.