Comments on: Apple Gazette Daily 208 – Visual Hub update, AppleTV rant, and more

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:39:33 +0000

@Rick

Yeah, Rick, I imagine you have a really fast connection. I have 6mbs down per second (or so they say) and I can’t get even one of the HD podcasts to stream at all. All those people on on DSL are completely screwed – its just not a viable solution for everyone, and adding a “subscribe” button would not have been hard at all. It was a very deliberate choice on Apple’s part to choose not to add it.

And you’re right about the 24 hour rental time being standard for PPV movies – but the difference there is that you can DVR those PPV movies then watch them whenever you want, and you can’t do that with AppleTV.

By: Rick Rouse

Rick Rouse — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:34:43 +0000

Michael,
I have to disagree with you about the podcast section on AppleTV. Although I can understand your frustration, I must say that I have tried the streaming of HD podcasts through AppleTV and it works great. Yes some of the podcasts I’ve tried are slow to start playing but it works faster than downloading on my G5, then syncing to the ATV, then deleting the file once I’m done with it. Maybe I’m just lucky with my broadband speed. Also, using the “adding to favorites” feature is nice. It saves disk space on both my computer and ATV and eliminates all the file management. I do agree with you about the 24 hour rental time. However, I have the same time limits when I rent a HD movie through Comcast so I think it is the standard set by the movie studios.

By: Colby Otte

Colby Otte — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:07:46 +0000

thanks for the tip on the Visual Hub. great product. Dido about the sound quality

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:04:03 +0000

@David

Looks like I’m officially done with either Garage Band or the Samson Q1U – I can’t decide which.

By: David B Haun

David B Haun — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:22:13 +0000

The last two minutes sounded awfully bad sound quality on your Samsung Q1U microphone.