AppleTV Hits the Streets

Stories are starting to pop up all over the web about the AppleTV, which evidently means that Apple has set loose the hounds of marketing and the units are (or will be tomorrow) available in Apple stores. Still no word on whether or not it plays DivX files. That will be the key to me purchasing one.

CmdrTaco's review

[Anonymous Coward]

"No wireless access to the iTunes Store. Less space than a TiVo. Lame."

No chance!

[NekoXP]

DivX won't be supported. The thing will play specially encoded H.264 movies from iTunes with DRM bolted onto, end of story. There's no way Apple would have been able to secure the licensing to sell stuff on iTunes if they didn't.

I guess you won't be getting one, but think of how many hookers you can get for the same price. A lot more fun!

From the apple website

[pklinken]

Then you pull up a seat, put up your feet, and pick up the included Apple Remote to play your movie on TV. Give yourself a hand: You've just changed the way you watch digital media.

Hmmm.

OK

[lucabrasi999]

So when are they releasing the iRack [youtube.com]?

Obligitary question

[hack slash]

Will the remote only have one button?

GoogleTV

[biocute]

Personally I will be waiting for GoogleTV, where it streams 24/7 YouTube videos produced by amateurs.

Obviously with Google's advanced technology in search and category, these videos will be sorted into different categories, genre, rating etc.

Re:About Time

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks for your worthless post. You may want to delay hitting the submit button until you have something substantial to say.

Re:About Time

[Simon Garlick]

Correction: Apple generally produces high-quality hardware six months after the product was launched. Until then, the early adopters are just one big beta team.

Re:and screw color

[jdray]

Pixels? Kids these days! In my day, we had lines. Lots of them. And every one of them were horizontal. We had to line them up on our tubes (yeah, tubes!) to make pictures out of them. By hand. We had these dials see, with strange labels like V-Hold and Horiz.

Pixels! We would have died to have pixels.

Re:This whole article is an embarrassment to Slash

[Cryptnotic]

Welcome to Slashdot, you must be new here.

Re:Just use your 360

[IntergalacticWalrus]

But does the XBOX 360 have a lower Total Cost of Ownership than the Apple TV? And do you have "independent" studies to prove your "facts"?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Re:Better than TiVo?

[MrNiCeGUi]

Do you like money too? I think we should hang out.

/may be too subtle