Archive for the ‘AppleTV’ Category
Indie filmmaker uses AppleTV to show his film in theaters
Just yesterday I asked if Apple had forgotten the AppleTV, and low and behold, I read this article about an indy filmmaker who saved thousands of dollars by using an AppleTV to show his film in local theaters.
While I can’t imagine a movie I’d like to see less in the world than something labeled and [...]
Has Apple forgotten about the AppleTV?
I have a lot of Apple devices in the house. Several iPods, a few iPhones, and a desktop and notebook Mac. Each of them has been recently updated by Apple in one way or another…be it bug fixes or even a brand new OS. All of them…except that one, thin (extremely warm) [...]
SPECULATION: What If the AppleTV became a DVR to spite NBC?
This IS NOT speculation on what we’ll see on Sept. 5th. This weekend I was thinking about the NBC vs. Apple thing, after explaining it to relatives, and a thought occurred to me…
There has been long standing rumor and speculation that Apple would turn the AppleTV into a DVR. At the time, that [...]
Apple Responds to NBC: By DROPPING the new Fall Season of NBC Shows!!!
Apple has just issued the following press release:
Apple® today announced that it will not be selling NBC television shows for the upcoming television season on its online iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). The move follows NBC’s decision to not renew its agreement with iTunes after Apple declined to pay more than double the wholesale price for each [...]
Opinion: NBC pulling its content from iTunes? - YEAH RIGHT!
Sometimes big corporations act like Junior High kids. NBC decided to act that way today by not only threatening to “take their ball and go home” if they didn’t get their way, but they also leaked their story to the New York Times, much like a child spreading a rumor on the playground.
The reason [...]
Netflix coming to Mac in 2008
Steve, the developer of Netflix’s download service, gave Gizmodo some explanations about the selection of movies on the service, the reason for a lack of Mac support and so on…
Basically Mac support is coming in 2008, and isn’t already here because Apple doesn’t license its DRM. (Of course, if you have Parallels or Fusion, [...]
AppleTV USB Hack now available…if you meet some very specific requirements…
If you haven’t noticed, I don’t write much about the “hacking” aspect of Apple products. I’m just not into it. I use my Apple products every day, and as history will show you on this site, I have had problems from time to time. I’m not interested in voiding my warranty by jacking [...]
BigBanana.TV makes Tempe Video releases available for AppleTV, iPod, and iPhone
Sometimes I get surprising press releases in my inbox. Last night was one of those surprises. Big Banana, for those of you that don’t know, is a distributor of online movies and video. Like most online indy companies, Big Banana started with public domain classics that you could download to your Apple [...]
What if I don’t want YouTube on my iPhone?
You remember that mysterious application that everyone was sure was on the iPhone, but no one knew just what it was? Turns out it’s YouTube.
As of today, YouTube is now live on your AppleTV, a software update is available that will not only allow you to access the content of YouTube on your AppleTV, [...]
YouTube to be H.264 not Flash on AppleTV - iPod and iPhone to follow?
I actually mentioned this yesterday on the podcast, but since it’s making the rounds this morning, I thought I would write something up briefly about it…
The reason that YouTube isn’t available on the AppleTV immediately is because all of the video from YouTube is being transcoded to H.264. This is great news, since we’ll [...]
