Re: Apple TV - Yet Another "Just Works" Product From Apple

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:11:55 -0700, Mayor of R'lyeh wrote
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:37:13 -0700, George Graves
<gmgraves2@xxxxxxxxxxx> chose to bless us with the following wisdom:

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:17:38 -0700, Mayor of R'lyeh wrote
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:25:42 -0400, "Dr. zara" <drzee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
chose to bless us with the following wisdom:


"George Graves" <gmgraves2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:42:41 -0700, George Graves wrote
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:26:17 -0700, MuahMan wrote
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On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:24:55 -0700, Tim Murray wrote
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On Mar 23, 2007, MuahMan wrote:
How's that 720p treatin' ya? Oh well, I'm off to watch an HD-DVD
in
1080p
on my Xbox360, maybe stream WMVHD in 1080p, then play some Gears
of
War
in
1080p, before listening to some MP3's from my computer on my
Xbox360.
Being
doing these things for YEARS

At least look up some facts before lying.


MooMan is just showing what an ignoramus he truly is. There ARE NO
1080p
HD-DVDs its all up-converted 1080i. 1080i has less resolution than
720p.
look
at it this way if the progressive scanning were removed from 720p
and
it
were
presented interlaced, it would be 1440i

It sounds authoritive - too bad you don't even know what you are
talking
about. You don't know Jack ***. Moron.


I know right. Good thing it's the internet. If a convict like George
Graves
got lippy with me in real life I'd have to kick the ever lovin ***
out
of
him.


God. I'd love to see you try it!


Isn't Pratt just a wonderful guy? I show him where he's laboring under a
misconception, and instead of thanking me, he goes right for the insults.
Enlightening conversationalist, he.

Who do you think you're kidding? You are a toothless, moth-eaten, broken
down, old hound. A paper Tiger. A man with a paper ***. You would
be
lucky to hold up for more than thirty seconds. You best bet would be to
throw a couple of feeble shots, and hope for some king of miracle. Some
advise: try to get laid -- that is, if you could even get it up. The
poisons seem to be building up in your system. What happens when you
orgasm? Do you get a puff of dust?


I wouldn't pay for the powder to blow either one of you up.
That being said, can anyone tell me the purpose of Apple TV? Just what
does it do that's worthwhile? Why would I want to pay essentially the
same for a DVD to download a show off of iTunes when I could just go
buy the DVD at a store and play it on my DVD player?
The same for the music. Ripping music onto the computer is strictly to
load it onto portable player where the expectations aren't that high.
Trying to play it on a decent stereo via anything is going to quickly
show the limitations of compressed music to all but the tone deaf.

I'm afraid that like so many things that you've taken an ignorant stand
against, it can't be explained to you, Mayor.

You can't think of anything either, eh?

Sorry, that's not what I mean. I've been reading your posts for the better
part of a decade now, and I've noticed that you tend to take negative stands
against products, technologies interests and hobbies without even TRYING to
understand anyone else's point of view or gathering the facts before you make
up your mind. Another thing that I've noticed about you is that once you
take a stand against something, nothing anyone can say or do will change your
mind. My above comment addresses that peculiarity of your personality.
There's really no use trying to explain the AppleTV box to you, Mayor,
because you seem to have already decided, without knowing anything about it,
that its worthless to you.

Seriously, I will concede that this sounds like the uber-geeks' wet
dream. They love to use their computers for everything. But how many
people is that really?

Like I said. You really don't understand what its for or how it works.


Most people are perfectly happy using a DVR from their cable or
satellite company and a DVD player.

This is a perfect example of what I said, above about you taking a negative
stand about something without even knowing what it does or how its used.
People's cable or satellite DVR has NOTHING to do with AppleTV. They are not
interchangeable on any level. A receiver's DVR does one thing: it records
incoming programs from the cable system or satellite dish for later playback.
Apple TV will not interface with a cable box or a satellite system. Instead,
it allows the user to view the digital photos stored on his computer on his
HDTV as a high-definition slide show. It also allows people to play their
iTunes music collection on their stereos, view Apple's large collection of HD
movie trailers, purchase TV shows and movies online and watch them on their
TV instead of on their computers and the reason I bought one: It allows me to
download raw video from my high-definition cam-corder to my Mac. Edit it in
iMovieHD, store the resultant "production" on my computer and play it back,
again in high-definition, on my TV. Ideally, I would burn the finished
"production" to DVD, but Blu-Ray/HD-DVD burners are still prohibitively
expensive and the Apple TV looked like a much cheaper way to present my
"home-grown" HD videos until such time that these HD writers come down in
price.

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