When I was a kid, we only had a handful of TV stations. There were the Big Three networks, a snowy picture of PBS, and a few stations we could see only if the wind was blowing in the right direction. We were thankful; we were happy.
Today, it’s all different, of course. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Apple TV’
Apple TV, TiVo, Cable, Satellite… is Broadcast TV Obsolete?
Posted in Apple TV, zombies, tagged Apple TV, Cable TV, DTV, Jerry Springer, Maury Povich, Satellite TV on February 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Apple TV, Pt. 2: What Apple fixed (and didn’t)
Posted in Apple TV, iTunes Store, tagged Apple TV, Comcast, iTunes Store, Jeff Zucker, NBC Universal, Netflix on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Earlier this week, I posted a brief history of Apple TV from concept (iTV), to initial release (1.0) to the update announced last week at Macworld (2.0). Today, I’ll look at what Apple got right, got wrong and what lies ahead for Apple TV.
The full post is after the jump.
Will Apple TV kill cable/satellite? Netflix? Retail rental?
Posted in Apple TV, iTunes Store, tagged Apple TV, Blu-ray, DVD HD, iTunes Store, Netflix on January 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
RoughlyDrafted had a great post yesterday that predicts Apple TV will knock out Netflix and brick-and-mortar rental stores with one deadly blow.
Apple also couldn’t force all of the labels to sell their movies in iTunes as digital downloads. It could, however, get them all to sign up for movie rentals if it matched the rules [...]
Apple TV, Pt. 1: A brief history of Apple TV
Posted in Apple TV, iTunes, tagged Apple TV, iPhone, iTunes, Steve Jobs on January 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Believe the hype. Apple’s movie rental announcement is a game changer for the maligned Apple TV, which should finally get some traction after a rough start. We don’t know yet whether the studios will stock huge catalogs of movies, but the iTunes Store-Apple TV-movie rental ecosystem is ready for its close-up.
A brief history [...]
Hey, Martha, where is Dancing with the Stars?!
Posted in Apple TV, Uncategorized, tagged ABC, Antenna Towers, Apple TV, Dancing with the Stars, DTV transition, KATV, KETS, Little Rock, PBS, Robin Roberts, Target on January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A little while back, I wrote about the impending analog TV shutdown, which is just about a year away. On February 17, 2009, every last analog TV station in America is due to sign off, making room for the digital TV revolution.
If you live in Little Rock, misfortune may have brought that date forward, [...]
Macworld: Warner Brothers on list for iTS movie rentals
Posted in Apple TV, iTunes Store, tagged Apple TV, iTunes Store, Macworld, Netflix, Steve Jobs, Warner Brothers on January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Wow, the gang’s (almost) all here. Bloomberg says today that Warner Bros. will join several other studios in making movies available on iTunes Store for sale and rental. The announcement will come in Steve Jobs’ keynote address Monday morning at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
Bloomburg says Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Paramount, [...]
Competing formats holding back HD disc, player sales
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Apple TV, Blu-ray, HD DVD, Macworld, New York Times, Steve Jobs on December 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The New York Times has a good piece today on the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD format fiasco. Basically, the studios and equipment manufacturers have continued to dig in their heels over agreeing to a single format and — surprise! — consumers are still sitting on the sideline.
The impulse Apple angle is to say that [...]
Macworld: Fox movie rentals headed to iTunes Store?
Posted in Apple TV, Steve Jobs, iTunes Store, tagged Apple TV, Fox, iTunes Store, Macworld, movie rental, Steve Jobs on December 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Finally, PPV movies in the iTunes Store.
The Financial Times is reporting tonight that Apple and 20th Century Fox have agreed to make Fox new releases available on iTS both on a pay-per-view basis and as embedded tracks that can be ripped from DVDs. Apple Insider and MacRumors have both picked up the story. [...]
It’s a Festivus Miracle!
Posted in Apple TV, zombies, tagged Apple TV, disclaimers, Dragnet, Festivus, Hulu, Seinfeld, Tina Fey, TV on December 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Airing of Grievances and the Feats of Strength are still to come, but, the giving spirit of Festivus has visited the Baskind household!
I finally got my invite to Hulu, the kernel of an on-demand entertainment site owned by NBC and News Corp., just in time for this unholy Holiday (I choose to believe they [...]
Analyst says Apple TV sales below initial projections
Posted in Apple TV, iTunes, iTunes Store, tagged Apple TV, iPhone, iPod touch, iTunes, iTunes Store, NBC on December 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Tech analyst Forrester Research, which in May predicted Apple TV sales this year of one million units, says Apple has sold only 400,000 and will be lucky to sell another 400,000 before the end of the year. The report says Apple TV’s sales forecast tracks about the same as the GarageBand loop library CD-ROMs. [...]
Does Apple have a strategy for Apple TV?
Posted in Apple TV, Steve Jobs, tagged Apple TV, Comcast, iTunes Store, Steve Jobs on November 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I have a love/hate relationship with my Comcast DVR.
It allows me almost complete freedom to set my own viewing schedule, but it screws up a lot. I mean, a lot. “The Office” often records with bad, echo-y audio or no audio at all. Three straight weeks, “How I Met Your Mother” recorded only [...]
