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Re: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2012, 12:13:30 AM »
Why have two boxes when the first box can do everything the second box can do and more!

Commodore and others started by hooking computers up to TV sets for cheap monitors.  Now the assimilation is nearly complete as the TV is absorbing the computer completely into itself.
 

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Re: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2012, 12:16:39 AM »
CDTV was way ahead of its time.
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Re: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2012, 12:18:08 AM »
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Why have two boxes when the first box can do everything the second box can do and more!

Commodore and others started by hooking computers up to TV sets for cheap monitors.  Now the assimilation is nearly complete as the TV is absorbing the computer completely into itself.


The TV, or the DVD player, or the media player.  Every device has a finger in the pie.  Why not put it in the remote control too.  Whoops just let brilliant idea #2 out of the bag?... Dibs on that idea guys.  published on this forum @ now.

All these devices have different alignments to different studios/publishers, content and different technology.  Every major TV channel has its own library solution and some with dedicated players.  Chaos and madness.
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Re: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2012, 12:19:56 AM »
@Transition

Agreed.  I just wish we didn't need the Internet as a tether to do everything that we do.  BluRay disks hold an awful lot.  If Sony hadn't hobbled their own hardware by banning the Linux install when it was getting interesting, the PS3 could have been more... well... INTERESTING.
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Re: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2012, 06:34:00 AM »
An iTunes ready TV?  Yep, no brainer, I'm buying one.
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Re: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2012, 06:49:55 AM »
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An iTunes ready TV?  Yep, no brainer, I'm buying one.

You go right ahead, I'm not buying one.

"Broadcasters are terrified"

Yeah, right.

This looks like another Apple bomb (like Apple TV).

I leave the rest of you to buy content and devices from this profit oriented monster. Frankly, I'm not subsidizing Foxconn suicides.
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Re: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2012, 09:05:29 AM »
Seems to me this could end up been another Pippin if they aren't careful.

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Re: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2012, 10:11:13 AM »
Pippin?
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Re: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2012, 10:19:02 AM »
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Pippin?
Some crappy games console

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apple_Bandai_Pippin&useformat=desktop

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Re: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2012, 10:29:18 AM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Bandai_Pippin

It was an early attempt by Apple to break into the whole multimedia thing. But it could play games, connect to the net, run multimedia CD's.

It failed lol.

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Re: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2012, 11:20:40 AM »
Hopefully me thinks, apple has lost it's mojo.  I wonder if the majority of ipad3 purchases will feel the same.
The word "revolution" has been well and truly used by apple.
 

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Re: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2012, 11:45:00 AM »
I doubt it. The amount of times Apple have dropped the ball but then recovered is rediculous.

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Re: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'
« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2012, 11:47:35 AM »
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Hopefully me thinks, apple has lost it's mojo.  I wonder if the majority of ipad3 purchases will feel the same.
The word "revolution" has been well and truly used by apple.
Would that honestly make you happy?

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Re: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'
« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2012, 11:55:40 AM »
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Would that honestly make you happy?

Probably. It's the tall poppy syndrome. We like to build people up just so we can smash them down again. I kinda like the idea.
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