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Posts tagged Apple TV
The new Sony HDTV powered by Google TV
#fail
Steve Jobs always said that he is more proud of the things he said “No” to instead of “Yes”. Looks like the engineers (where the hell were the designers?) at Sony had a hard problem saying no to their executives.
Interesting to know it is a A4 processor, 8 GB of storage, and 256 MB of RAM. Pretty impressive for $99.
Also, a full review of Apple TV 2 at Engadget.
I wonder why Engadget accepts comments from their readers. The more you read, the more you see noise. It’s $99 device that is just a little bigger than a MacBook AC adapter with the power of a iPad that let you rent/watch a catalogue of movies/tv series and consume only 5.95 watts! Give me a break. This is a wonder.
Some weeks ago before Steve Jobs announced the new Apple TV, I wrote my predictions on what would be the new Apple TV. I was almost certain the Apple TV would come the capability of having apps, your iDevice or the new Magic Pad acting as a touchpad.
After the release I had more question than answers. If it has the same A4 chip and iOS 4.0, does it means it should be able to have apps? Today MacRumors confirms that it is far possible that the new Apple TV would get apps, stating that it has the same iOS and 16 GB of memory. I just hope they are right.
The other question I had was about the new capability of the Apple TV to received over-the-air music, videos and photos from the upcoming iOS 4.2 AirPlay. Would it be possible to stream from any application using the iOS video player? If so it means that it would be possible to stream any video formats to Apple TV with an application like Air Video app and not be limited to iTunes.
MacRumors today do not confirm it, but lets see some hope. One developer who has the iOS 4.2 beta succeed to stream the audio of some videos from his iPad to his AirPort Express using the following apps: Safari, YouTube, Netflix, iPod, BBC News, MLB and Videos. On the other hand one customer, Marlon Sabala, emailed Steve Jobs to know if any video playback would be able to AirPlay or only iTunes stuff. Steve Jobs simply replied: “Everything played in the Videos app”.
We need to wait until an Apple TV is available for some developers to test it. In any case I’m sure someone would find a way to jailbreak the Apple TV using its micro-USB port.
UPDATE: Looks like Daring Fireball is also on board with me.
In short the answer is NO ;(
Since the Apple TV has been announced yesterday, I did wonder if you would be able to stream any video format to it in some way. I don’t see the point of owning the Apple TV if I cannot stream any video formats to it, or at least convert on the fly the video in a format compatible to the Apple TV and stream the video feed to it.
Two companies have Server and iPad/iPhone/iTouch App that convert and stream on the fly any video formats to your device from your computer. It’s Air Video (before called Wi-Fi Video) and StreamToMe.
It means that if you have a TV OUT cable for your iPad or iPhone than you can turn it into a media center by connecting it to your TV. But what if I just don’t want to bother with that and simply send the video feed directly to the Apple TV. I had to write to InMethod, the maker of the amazing Air Video to know if it would be possible.
Hi,
Ok I know you must have been asked this question a couple of times since the new release of the Apple TV yesterday, but I need to know.
Since we can turn our iPad and iPhone into a media center by connecting it to our TV and stream any video to it with your Air Video server/app, I wonder if you see any way to stream any video format directly to the Apple TV with the new AirPlay?
I guess we would be able to use our iPad or iPhone as middleware with the 4.1 firmware update, pushing the video currently playing on the iPhone/iPad to the Apple TV with the AirPlay functionality, but I was wondering if your already tough about how to stream directly to the new Apple TV?
Thanks in advance guys and thank-you for having made this AMAZING product.
And their sad, but true answer:
Hi,
AirPlay will most likely be closed product not available to 3rd party apps.Sorry.
Kind regards,
Matej Knopp
InMethod
So we have to stay tune… I guess the new Apple TV would be almost impossible to hack, without opening it since there is no USB port on it.
Cloud Storage and a price tag of only $99.
The new architecture of the device will be based directly on the iPhone 4, meaning it will get the same internals, down to that A4 CPU and a limited amount of flash storage — 16GB to be exact — though it will be capable of full 1080p HD (!). The device is said to be quite small with a scarce amount of ports (only the power socket and video out), and has been described to some as “an iPhone without a screen.” Are you ready for the real shocker? According to our sources, the price-point for the device will be $99. One more time — a hundred bucks.
Can’t wait for this new gadget to come out (and to be hack so we can watch whatever formats on it).
(via Le Debugger)
