--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Their Apple TV box is nothing new either as I've been doing that in > hi-def for 2 years. >
That's basically a MacMini without a keyboard and with a bunch of extra I/O ports. The current graphics only supports standard iTune MPEG-4 (h264) but could easily be extended to support MPEG-4 Visual (the uber multi-media stuff we argued about previously). iMovie already exports to the iTune format (h264) via QuickTime and I'm sure an "export to iTunes" menu will be available in the next upgrade. There's no reason editing of the higher-end stuff MPEG-4 media couldn't be added to iMovie at a later date. The OS of the Apple TV should be upgradable via your iTunes interface though I haven't seen the details. MPEG-4 Visual aside, iTunes + Apple TV + iPhone are already all well-integrated and the new interface on the iPhone is quite nice. I would expect a future update to further integrate iPhone and Apple TV, supporting the use of the iPhone as the controller for Apple TV (iPhone has a two-input touch screen and includes a virtual touch-screen keyboard already). It's not possible with the first release (that I have heard), but using the iPhone as a microphone, and video-wifi integration via Apple TV and your TV set, should allow mutli-person video conference calls over the internet by next year if not sooner. Standard cell-phone audio-conference calls are already well-supported in iPhone of course and iChat software on the Mac supports video-conference chat via H264 video right now. Did you note that Apple *Computer* just changed its name? The desktop Mac is only one relatively small part of Apple's current business, and they are planning a slew of products centered around the Apple TV/iPhone integration thing.
