Re: apple TV deemed an iFlop

In article <0001HW.C31868FF0926E6C9F0182648@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
George Graves <gmgraves2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The relevance should be apparent here. You brag that the mini can
play DVDs. But most people already HAVE DVD players and to play
Hi-Def DVDs, one has to BUY a NEW hi-def player with either the
Apple TV or the Mini. Ergo, no points to the Mini on being able to
play DVDs.

No one bragged that the Mini could play DVD's. I specifically said
that I can store DVD images (about 100 of them) on my computer and
play them directly from the comfort of my couch.

The same can be done with ATV.

Of course it can't. The AppleTV doesn't play VIDEO_TS folders, George.
You'd have to convert them to a video format that the ATV supports,
and then you have to add them to iTunes, and then you have synk them
over to the ATV. And I doubt you fan fit 100 movies on it anyway.

Of course you can convert the DVDs
to MPEGs and watch them on the AppleTV but if you want the full DVD with
menus/extras etc. and don't want to lose any quality, storing the complete
image is the best method.

Actually, playing them with a player is the best idea, but whatever blows up
your skirt is more than fine with me. My only argument is that there is
nothing that I want done interfacing my Mac to my HDTV that ATV cannot do and
do fairly well.

That's great news! I have an AppleTV as well, and I think it's great
as well.

Above that, I have no argument with people who prefer to use
a Mini. I just don't see that its as convenient,

Agreed, a Mac mini is less convenient for the sole reason of it
running a full copy of OSX so you occasionally get a dialog window
asking if you want to update iTunes (Grrr, even if you check the
'don't ask me again' button!)

easy to use or any more capable

And here we disagree. The Mac mini is a superset of the AppleTV. It
does everything the AppleTV do (but play youtube videos in front row)
and more. It supports higher resolutions and you can even use
colorsync to make the image look a hundred times better than on your
AppleTV (no kidding, colorsync really proves it worth on a LCD TV).

that's all and I don't agree that ATV is, in any way, a "flop".

I have no idea how it's selling, but it's not a flop in my house. :)




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