And are you talking about Apple TV or the rumored iTV? Your description (wifi, integrated with all devices and that it could have an app for direct TV) just sounds like Apple TV with a new app. The game changer will be if HBO Go ever releases and app that is stand alone from their cable/satelite packages. Same goes for a handful of other channels. If apple can pull that off, I'd be all over it. But as it stands now, the Roku 3 > Apple TV (unless you already have purchased a ton of movies/tv shows from iTunes).
This happened when the record companies fought the mp3 movement. Of course directv wants it all for themselves, but the one thing apple is good at is doing what they do better. Eventually, a subscription like the appletv service will generate more revenue for directv. Also, a Siri feature that learns your favorites can help the consumer with their experience. Basically learning their preferences and using the built in camera to be remote free! The buzz I got was via investment groups. Just a buzz, but we may find out this fall. Exciting nonetheless
No the TV itself will be like a huge iPad. The TV will not need cables other than power. It will be installed with a camera and hopefully this camera will have a feature that uses your body movement control the TV.
All the rumors you could wish for. Though, it'd be a little more useful if it didn't have quite so much android/samsung/insert random competitor hate. http://forums.macrumors.com/forumdisplay.php?f=4
I think you're talking about this rumor. I'm surprised there hasn't been any comments on that site since the 5th on it. I hope it comes to fruition and that they do it well and not half assed (completely change the way we consume content, not just offer the same service as Apple TV). http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1565645
I'll state the obvious. I was seriously considering getting a patent on the idea, if possible. I have DirecTV. The receiver sits on my local area network; it can be connected via WiFi or ethernet cable. From the app store, I downloaded the free DirecTV app for my phone and iPad. The app detects the receiver on the LAN and lets me stream from it over the WiFi. Not only that, but there's a remote control built into the app that lets me pretty much fully control the receiver. it's very cool, but I want the iPad to be my universal remote. Now my Apple TV sits next to the DirecTV receiver. It is connected to my LAN, too. If there was a DirecTV app for the Apple TV box (there's already netflix, hulu, etc., it's just an iOS device), I could tell the Apple TV to "just about fully" control the DirecTV receiver, too. What's missing? HDMI IN on the Apple TV. If there was HDMI in, then the Apple TV could switch between rendering directly to the TV as it does for streaming, netflix, etc., and passing through the HDMI in to the TV. So what does this buy Apple? Who needs the DirecTV channel guide? Apple can provide that, and likely do a much better job of it. Actually, netflix does a very good job, IMO, of presenting its service on a TV. Not only can Apple present you the TV guide, they can control the recording on the DVR, the playback from the DVR, the On Demand channels of the receiver, etc. Now Apple has the bird's eye view of everything. They can seamlessly integrate searching for programs across all that you have access to. For example, "I want to watch ER." So you search, and it tells you it's found on Hulu, would you like to watch it now? In fact, they could present a movie catalog that includes their PPV style offerings along with a seamless mix of netflix, hulu, and the On Demand channels on DirecTV. They can also do recommendations like netflix does, but they see more of what you like and watch than netflix does - Apple sees all your viewing preferences and habits. They can seamlessly integrate the DVR with On Demand, too. Some of the "recorded" content would be streamed from the DVR disk drive and some from the cloud. The end user wouldn't have to know the difference. And all this is probably a ridiculously small cost to the actual Apple TV hardware (the HDMI in and switching hardware). It'd be a rather large investment in software, but extremely well worth it. EDIT: the HDMI in wouldn't be limited to DirecTV. You'd be able to plug in just about any content provider's equipment, like Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T UVerse, Dish Network, etc. You just tell the Apple TV what's plugged in and it knows what to do. As long as the device can be controlled via WiFi.
Well, I think the Roku does something similar. I know there is a Time Waner Cable app. If that is integrated, I don't know, but on my Roku I can search, "ER" It will tell me if it is on Hulu, Netflix, Vudu or any of the other apps on my Roku. And it tells you the price (so if it is on Hulu/Netlix for free, on Amazon for $.99 or Vudu for $1.99, etc). I used this feature just the other day to see if Freaks and Geeks was on any of my channels. Again, I don't know if it integrates the TWC app since I don't have it. I kind of doubt it, but it would be cool none the less.
Great idea actually! Maybe thunderbolt could be the connection? It's faster and can function with hard drives to store content too.
Yup, you got me. I've been lurking on here for 5 years, just for this moment when I can promote Samsung by posting an Apple Rumors site! I'm an apple fanboy since I was little. My first home computer was a Mac LC III. I was convinced by others to get a pc desktop for college, which I hated and started crashing after a year so I ended up buying the entry level, white, ibook. A few years later we got a MBP (again, after a pc laptop, this time my gf's, died within a year) and then a macbook. This summer we bought a 64gb iPad 3 and in October we got a Retina MBP. The only non apple products we have are the Roku 3 and the Nexus4. I really wanted to like the iPhone, but for me, stock android is way better than iOS.
No I was talking about the comments on the rumor site, not you dude! Hahahaha. I am an apple fan boy since the early 80's. I actually owned an Apple Macintosh in the 80's. I brought home the ad of a school kid walking her computer to school. I didn't really get into apple until I became a designer in 1989. I worked with quark, photoshop and illustrator when they were versions 1, 2, 2.1
Maybe in the beginning, but apple has been notorious for changing the platform. I think the thunderbolt will be just as game changing as firewire years ago. It's a much better connection and you can connect external hard drives for DVR recordings.
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There are no thunderbolt TVs and no thunderbolt DVRs. The whole point of my idea is that it costs a few cents in parts to add to an existing Apple TV and the rest is software. No end user has to go out and replace their home theater, just the $99 Apple TV box.
What are the limits/capacity of hdmi? I've seen usb vs firewire or tb, but I've never seen anything compared to hdmi (probably because it is used for audio/video connections and not computers). But apple is having a hard enough time getting computer peripherals to switch to TB. I can't see them being successful (at least not for a few years) implementing it on TVs as well.
