Ok. The Apple tv is not interestning yet and it is a little too expensive. Anyway i am sure it will get RSS feeds (trailers is a RSS right?) and IPTV.
But there are foure missing which is crucial!
1. Apple tv needs to be able to download DIRECTLY for intunes.
2. Movie rentals! (which I think is comming...)
3. HD content also on movie rentals.
4. Dolby 5.1 content and support.
What do you guys think?
All good ideas. They should take a page out of either eMusic or Netflix's new VOD service and sell rentals in a discounted, pre-pay, use it or lose it fashion.
What I mean is you pay a flat fee, say $20 a month, and you can "rent" anything in the store for a certain percentage of it's purchase price. All your rentals last for the duration of that billing cycle, with a 5 day minimum... so, for example, the package could be rent stuff for 25% of the purchase price, so a TV show would be $0.50 to rent, movies $2-4 depending on the title. Movies/shows rented on the 1st day of your month would be available for the next 30 days (or until you manually deleted it - no re-downloads) and things you rented on days 26 through 30 would be available to you for 5 days.
Also, purchasing anything you've rented in the same month you rented it would get you a 25% discount (the price of the rental). Lastly, they NEED to be AT LEAST DVD quality (which means WIDESCREEN!!!!) and 5.1 sound to be worth anything at all. HD would be even better, even if it added a little to the price. One of the things that I remember being touted with h264 was the ability to have multiple version of a video in the same container. I'd pay extra - based on the above prices, $0.25 for TV shows and $1 for movies - for an HD download if it also included an iPod version (320x240, maybe pan and scan) as well.
I'd also like an eMusic style music package (pay $10 per month and get up to 15 track downloads but you can't carry them over), but that's another story...
My AppleTV does some of this already - it's called a macMini
No, it's called a Mac mini (
http://www.apple.com/macmini/) ... if you're going to be smarmy at least get the right name.
EDIT: Whoops, forgot the main thing I was coming here to say! I think Apple should take a cue from MS and offer an add on HD DVD or BR (or both, be it two separate drives or a combo reader) for the Apple TV. Now, the current ATV won't handle that kind of workload, but assuming they do a ATV 2 they're going to have up the power to handle 1080p high datarate video anyway, and there's already a USB port. I trust Apple to do that with some style, unlike MS; the ATV is a pretty stackable looking unit, so making an optical add-on drive in the same sized enclosure would look nice still, and let people pick and chose what functionality they want.
Plus, with both BR and HDDVD offering some form of managed copy it would be a slick system being able to dump a copy (albeit a lower res one) to the ATV. Come to think of it, Apple could just add a system to accept a managed copy of an HDDVD or BR movie from its host computer that was in a 720p24 @5mbps or whatever the spec it needs.
TV for 2 or 3 weeks now and love it. Both syncing and streaming are flawless. Here's what I'd like from an update though (some may be repeats of what is already said above or in other threads):