Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'

[gertsy]

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.

[gertsy]

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.

[gertsy]

Happy? No!  The recorIng industry was well and truly burnt by apple and ITunes. It aint gonna happen with Tv. Go and have a look at the Tv programs available on iTunes. Our local Australian rebroadcasts are more up-to-date. That's saying something.

[gertsy]

Would that honestly make you happy?

Happy? No!  The recording industry was well and truly burnt by apple and ITunes. It aint gonna happen with Tv. Go and have a look at the Tv programs available on iTunes. Our local Australian rebroadcasts are more up-to-date. That's saying something.

I'm happy to pay for fresh new content. Unfortunately over here the only legal option is cable TV.

Not commenting on lock in but in relation to technology can you surmise why the iPad 3 has such a resolution on a 9" screen? The iPad2 can download and stream hd video content to apple tv just as easily as the iPad 3.

Btw; typing this on an iPad 2

[gertsy]

Nah! The recording industry destroyed itself long before Apple came along... Believe me
I'm very much aware of this.


By the late 80's Record Companies were making so much money that they started to attract executives who came from large multimillion dollar companies... Who didn't/don't think of music as an art, but a commodity like baked beans.

So the executives started to move the industry away from developing artists and towards producing cheap music that could be purchased, consumed, thrown away, repeat... That negate the need to invest in bands/artists who would take time to develop and this all we have now is cheap, repetitive, disposable entertainment... Music as an art has been expunged from the industry.

For the recording artist now, the only way to sell your music is through iTunes and avoiding ethe record company... That way you get a much better royalty at the expense of the massive marketing engine the large companies have.



Apple screwed the large record companies not the Recording Artist.

Agree. That's what I said. I thought.
Do you think Sony and affiliates will be very accommodating of the TV Side?
I don't. iTunes TV content tends to echo my thoughts. I can buy DVDs of TV series at Kmart in  Australia as recent as the bulk of the offerings on iTunes.

YouTube has the free video market covered. iTunes can only offer paid content and so they have to stand in the queue.

[gertsy]

Like who?

[gertsy]

Sorry yes, I wasn't directing my rant at you... It just doesn't take much to set me off regarding this particular issue

I use Apple. And have done since Apple II. But the iPad 3 release has left me aghast. In relative terms & UX u get a camera flash on top of the iPad 2. The processor gains are gobbled by the ludicrous resolution.

How do you tell the difference between the resolution on an ipad2 & an iPad3. With a microscope! That's just ludicrous.

[gertsy]

There is that. But I dread that Apple will repeat commodores mistakes with the Amiga. iPad had the opportunity to continue the revolution.  Apple turned it to "resolution"
I read that as "danger, marketing in control"
I hope not.