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Anything new in store for us AppleTV owners?

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opticalserenity

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Its not been too long I suppose since we got the youtube update. But, I'd really like to see more.

Any ideas? I hope they don't forget about us thanks to the iPhone. I have both ,but I use my AppleTV everyday as well.
 
For those of us in the UK (with a TV licence), a deal with the BBC for watching recent TV would be great :)

In fact, having BBC content on iTMS would be great too - all over the world.
 
opticalserenity said:
It just seems sometimes that the Apple TV gets put on a back burner.
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I think S Jobs said already that the AppleTV has not been given the attention that it needs. He also said that it would soon. We all just have to wait and see what they do with it.

I want to know what is in store for the USB port on it. Currently it does absolutely nothing. They didn't put that on there for looks. It is there for a reason. A couple of uses could be... an external USB drive, a USB tuner (that would be awesome).
 
Jestered said:
I think S Jobs said already that the AppleTV has not been given the attention that it needs. He also said that it would soon. We all just have to wait and see what they do with it.

I want to know what is in store for the USB port on it. Currently it does absolutely nothing. They didn't put that on there for looks. It is there for a reason. A couple of uses could be... an external USB drive, a USB tuner (that would be awesome).
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It is there for diagnostics. This has been said mamny of times. There is no reason it would have to be otherwise. People just expect it to be. Using a common port for many reasons is very normal. I have a TV and also we sell many different brand TVs at work that use a USB port for diagnostics. SO it is not out of the realm of possibilities that is just that. However it is not out of the realm of possibilities that it can changed. I wouldnt mind seeing a Keyboard for using the search functions of you tube. However I would hope for something wireless.

Kevin
 
Nicolasdec said:
i would like to see:

RSS feed
E-mails
Joost
Internet (Maybe)
Alarm Clock
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All of that is easy and possible. Probably by the end of the year we'll have all of that plus some stuff we didn't even know we wanted yet.
 
I hope so, bicuase apple abandoned the apple tv and put all resources on the iphone.
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How can you say that? The Apple TV just came out a few months ago and put out an update a couple of weeks ago.
Did you expect Apple to put out a 2.0 version of the product already?
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Kevin
 
imlucid said:
How can you say that? The Apple TV just came out a few months ago and put out an update a couple of weeks ago.
Did you expect Apple to put out a 2.0 version of the product already?
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Kevin
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Well, they aredy have introduced an 160GB version, also its been out for 5 months and all they have done is added Youtube. hope more things will come, its such a great device.
 
just my last 2 cents

Remember all those rumors of the mac mini being discontinued? Well...
What if, and this may be a big IF, they move the mac mini into the living room like many have done before? And by this I mean they sell a bluetooth/dvd/hd dvd/blueray/all of those in one device to connect to the apple TV? With this you would be able to utilize the apple TV like a striped down computer; surf the internet, check mail, purchase and edit your iTunes account, play old school games, etc. All of this could be done with the bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Don't expect to be doing photoshop with this little thing though, the 256MB of ram is limiting it from doing anything a G4 could do. They could save memory by redesigning the os that is on the iPhone for the apple TV. OMG why don't they allow the iPhone and apple TV to talk together via WiFi? your iPhone could be the keyboard and mouse!
 
I would like to see some better integration with Bonjour networking, especially with the iPhone available now. It would be cool if my Apple TV could detect my iPhone and allow it to stream music.

It would also be nice if you could control the Apple TV with an iPhone via bluetooth, though I'm not sure how practical that is.
 
Nicolasdec said:
Well, they aredy have introduced an 160GB version, also its been out for 5 months and all they have done is added Youtube. hope more things will come, its such a great device.
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Yeah, I am in wait-and-see mode at the moment to see how well this device gets supported. I have had .mac for awhile now and it is always a "there will be more soon" attitude towards it. I am hoping that the AppleTV is not the same...
 
kjr39 said:
Yeah, I am in wait-and-see mode at the moment to see how well this device gets supported. I have had .mac for awhile now and it is always a "there will be more soon" attitude towards it. I am hoping that the AppleTV is not the same...
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Exactly that the "things will come" attitude.
 
pjac said:
For those of us in the UK (with a TV licence), a deal with the BBC for watching recent TV would be great :)

In fact, having BBC content on iTMS would be great too - all over the world.
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Yes a Legitimate way to Get Dr. Who and Torchwood would be nice.
 
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