RSSApple Previews iTV Media Center Device
By Nate Mook | Published September 12, 2006, 1:56 PM
At Macworld San Francisco in January, Apple plans to introduce a new device called "iTV" (not the final name) that lets users stream video from their PC to their television, similar in function to what the Airport Express did with audio.
The company was expected to launch the iTV Tuesday, but merely offered a preview of the device and said it would be available in Q1 2007. It features USB 2.0, Ethernet and Wi-Fi for network connectivity, as well as component video, optical audio and HDMI outputs. The $299 USD box will be about half the size of the Mac mini and include a next-generation Front Row interface.
oh very nice
can't wait for it =)
does anyone know what kind of file format it supports?
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But does media center extender play itunes bought music..
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No reason it shouldn't.
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If you can play it in Media Center, then you can extend it anywhere.
Best part is, you have an option of which extended to buy and from which manufacturer.
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Can do this now with my media center extender.
How about iBoobTube?
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Heh...
Did it "just work"?
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I plugged it in, it connected, and still works to this day. I can't say how impressed I have been with my MCE.
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you are a total noob
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not really. I've used Windows since 3.0 days. I hated hated hated MS for years. Windows Server 2003 and MCE2005 have actually made me sorta respect (just a little) MS again.
I work in IT and despised the IIS4, FrontPage, NT4, Visual InterDev crap they churned out duing the 1990s. The new MS products have earned my respect.
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I was hoping for something a little more catchy, like iToob, or at least iTele.
Oh well...at least they finally made the damn thing.
Little late in the day though considering the looming broadcast flag and such, though.
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some reason my comment wasnt published?
either way.. I can see apple getting sued over the use of itv... how fitting since they have been sueing people left and right for the same deal with "pod"
http://www.itv.com/
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iTV is just a code name. They're renaming the thing before releasing it.
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Taking a page from MS and obscuring the product by giving it one name after another?
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Speaking of broadcast flag... prepare to be hacked and/or circumvented!
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"iTV" isn't really obscure.
"Whistler" is.
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I didn't say the name made it obscure. I said 'giving it one name after another' did.
How's your reading comprehension today?
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Good luck with that. :)
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