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post #31 of 40
1/16/08 at 1:48am
Drink all the kool aid you want Rube. Netflix streaming is still cheaper, you can keep the movies indefinitely, and you can even burn them to DVD if you want... I'm curious to see how the streaming speed holds up when the thing finally goes online. $5 bucks a movie indeed! MAYBE if its over 1080i/p, and the streaming speed holds up. And you don't care that you can only temporarily rent a movie, not buy it.
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post #32 of 40
1/16/08 at 2:13am
True, but it takes much less time to get an Apple TV movie to your TV than it does a Netflix one. Some people would find that convenience worth paying for. On the page 2 discussion: MacBook Pros are absolutely viable as main computers, with the exception of storage space, which can be remedied easily with external drives. I use mine for my main computer and get framerates almost reaching my friend's GF8800 desktop setup.
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post #33 of 40
1/16/08 at 4:01am
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Originally Posted by Brian SD View Post
True, but it takes much less time to get an Apple TV movie to your TV than it does a Netflix one. Some people would find that convenience worth paying for.
From what I hear it will probably end up taking the same amount of time. Streaming video is streaming video, and its pretty much completely reliant on your connection speed. Its not as if all the DRM Apple is adding will make it download FASTER. I guess it all depends on how many movies you watch a month and whether you'd rather pay $4 or $5 per movie to Apple, or whether you'd rather pay $6 for six hours a month or $18 for unlimited DRM free video streaming from Netflix. (which still includes the regular netflix video by mail... by the way)
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post #34 of 40
1/16/08 at 9:24am
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I guess it all depends on how many movies you watch a month and whether you'd rather pay $4 or $5 per movie to Apple, or whether you'd rather pay $6 for six hours a month or $18 for unlimited DRM free video streaming from Netflix. (which still includes the regular netflix video by mail... by the way)

Netflix video streaming isn't DRM free - you need HDCP compliance to stream to your television.

Apple TV 2 could work. Steve readily admitted that v1 was a complete and utter failure. Joe Consumer doesn't even know what a HTPC is; he does, however, know what an iPod is. iTunes gets a shit-ton of purchases though you can easily find everything they sell through alternative, cheaper, channels. Apple manages to make utilitarian devices with simple interfaces for buyers who would otherwise not know or not care how to use less Apple-designed gadgetry. Now, granted, at this point Netflix has a pretty decent rental market share, as does Blockbuster; the hump iRent has to get over is the 24-hour viewing period. Even discs are DRM-laden, though easily bypassed by those that are not Joe Consumer, especially now that Blu-Ray will almost undoubtedly take it. Yippee for SlySoft.

And what the poop, my HTPC costs 3 times as much as yours though.. I have an 8800 Ultra in mine. Woo. And can someone please, for the love of God, get Omaura off their ass so I can get Apple minimalist design with DIY power? Thanks.
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post #35 of 40
1/16/08 at 10:03am
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s, I mean no optical drive? WTF?

I believe similar quotes were the norm when they came out with the first iMac with no floppy drive. How much do you miss that?
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post #36 of 40
1/16/08 at 12:11pm
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Netflix video streaming isn't DRM free - you need HDCP compliance to stream to your television.
Oops... my mistake. I swore I heard that Netflix was dropping the DRM on their video downloads. But now I can't find the link. Maybe I got two stories mixed up. And uh... what 24 hour viewing period?
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post #37 of 40
1/16/08 at 12:34pm
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Oops... my mistake. I swore I heard that Netflix was dropping the DRM on their video downloads. But now I can't find the link. Maybe I got two stories mixed up. And uh... what 24 hour viewing period?
Was referring to iRent. <edited> When I tried Netflix's online viewing a couple weeks ago, it still required HDCP. Perhaps that has changed, which would be good. The "Watch Instantly" program has now gone unlimited; it used to be limited per month. The forced IE thing is lame as shit, though.
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post #38 of 40
1/16/08 at 4:56pm
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It's the ugly side of business. Think of it from the financial aspect, which would make more money? 1. An ipod touch with 50GB? or 2. An ipod touch with 8GB which will be followed by a new version with 20GB, which will be followed by another version with 40GB? People buy the 8GB version. Those same people will buy the 20GB as it's an upgrade they can't wait for. And same for the 40GB. You get to make money from the same person multiple times ( like ipod, shuffle, ipod mini, ipod mini colours, ipod nano, ipod classic, ipod touch, iphone). This is the same concept plaguing the automotive industry, or at least what we have to deal with. I don't know how anyone can possibly beleive that they can't make better cars and alternate fuel sources. They just don't want to because they are making so much money with the current formula. Just like with the electric cars, why produce electric cars that almost never need to be serviced when you can produce gas guzzlers that require constant oil changes and such which are a continual source of income. Ok I'm getting way off track. I'm done.
The problem is that the iPod Touch really has to be flash memory based. A HD wouldn't work since the device is running a fully fledged version of OSX, so there'd be some awful lagtimes when navigating around the system (or, if the HD was running at all times the battery life would be abysmal and as the small 1.8" drives aren't designed for full-time use on a device like this, the disk would probably suffer a very short lifespan). A 50GB SMD version of the iPod Touch with today's flash memory prices would be, what, a thousand bucks?
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post #39 of 40
1/16/08 at 7:47pm
On my way to the show, will report back with news...
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post #40 of 40
1/17/08 at 4:03am
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