HeHe wrote:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/08/11/report-the-next-gen-apple-tv-to-be-called-itv-cost-99-and-limited-to-720p-its-going-to-be-cheap-and-thats-fine/
Wonder why they chose an ancient 4:3 CRT set to display in that
article? Admittedly I'm running a 10 year old 53" Pioneer RP HD set
which recently got a new lease on life by having the power supply
resoldered (looks better than when it was delivered). Not for less than
$99 but around $260 I replaced my first generation Sony Bluray player
with a Samsung 2.x version which came with Netflix, Vudu, Pandora, etc.
It can also play files on my computers. The thing this has done is
change my viewing habits so much that I'm thinking of cutting my Comcast
bill down to just Limited Basic and I'm not the only doing this. In
fact I think much of the urgency the telecoms are having about net
neutrality is that so many people are beginning to do this. Why watch
some half-baked TV series when you can select a worthwhile movie from
Netflix or Vudu? And recently the CinemaNow app was also added. The
Amazon app is also supposed to be in the works for Samsung players too.
The old TV cable and subscription models won't work anymore. Compared
to Netflix and Vudu, Comcast's OnDemand is a joke. Those companies are
stuck in some retro 20th century mode (sometimes I like to say 18th
century) of doing business.
You can already get boxes for less than $99 that stream stuff including
Netflix. For those who are wondering since a 10 year old set wouldn't
have HDMI I also added a HDFury converter that takes the HDMI output
from the player and turns it into component. Though one can still play
Bluray discs over component, DVD won't upscale and the streamings
services usually won't work in HD unless over HDMI. One thing that
doesn''t work well is that the YouTube app won't serve the HD versions
just upscale the lores 240p flash versions (yuck!).
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