Apple should just release their TV with regular over the air channels, hulu, netflix, youtube, and an app store. That is what most people are using these days anyways. If I would own a cable company I wouldn't join Apple.. have them take over and take 30% off every sale!? No thanks lol
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New Apple TV Likely Delayed Until 2015 Due to Negotiation Difficulties
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Just release an app store already!!!! I don't know why they are waiting for this media content BS.
App Store without new hardware/software to run it??? The current Apple TV doesn't use apps like other iOS devices as you know. Those are just icons
Sell your 2nd gen on ebay for $200 (I sold mine a couple of months ago) and buy the 3rd gen for $80 and pocket the $120!!!!
I have an
TV 2 and a Chromecast, I must say overall I still like my TV2 better, I'm sure an TV3 would be even better. But for the price if you already have a Chromecast I could see why you would keep Chromecast.
Is your jailbroken? mine is not and i don't think the latest software can be jailbroken yet. Is it worth getting the 3rd gen instead of the 2nd? i don't care about the jailbreak
It is jailbroken.
and I have been thinking about selling it, with the chromecast I don't need the jailbreak as Plex was the only thing I was really using the jailbreak for and pled works with the chromecastThis better be an amazing fall. I can't believe how slow everything seems to be updating.
I've been waiting for a thunderbolt display to match my original rMBP, but it's been three years since an update. And, while I hate to admit it, Apple has been so slow even MS has passed it on hardware.
Yeah, after this news, I'm suddenly less excited about the Apple TV updates.
This isn't news. This is a rumor about a delay for a rumored product. In other words, likely total BS
where is the promise of internet television?
Sad true is internet television sucks really bad right now. To start fixing it, let's start with something easy...how about make it so that the television that is streamed over the air for free is also streamed/viewed on the AppleTV for free. If this could be accomplished that in itself would be awesome.
I don't know why companies like ABC are making people have a cable subscription for content they blast over the airwaves for free. This is simply ridiculous and Apple should do something about it!
Sad true is internet television sucks really bad right now. To start fixing it, let's start with something easy...how about make it so that the television that is streamed over the air for free is also streamed/viewed on the AppleTV for free. If this could be accomplished that in itself would be awesome.
I don't know why companies like ABC are making people have a cable subscription for content they blast over the airwaves for free. This is simply ridiculous and Apple should do something about it!
Correct...because Chromecast only has 4 pathetic apps.
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Good. If ATV3 is jailbroken, you ATV2 will worth <$20.
And how many do most people use on the Apple TV? Netflix, Hulu, HBO GO, and one other? I use my CC for Netflix, Hulu, HBO Go, Plex (which is a great interface on the iPhone), YouTube (which is way better on the CC compared to the ATV), Watch ESPN, and Google Music. Other apps that work with it are Rdio, Pandora, Songza, Aviate, and many others. The Chromecast is far from pathetic. The best thing the Apple TV has right now is AirPlay.
Rumour is saying that Apple provided the TV companies a way to store each TV contents/programmes into media modules which a subscriber would be able to search and pull from Apple massive database and watch at any time and as often as their heart contents. The delay is caused by Apple ambition to include every major and minor TV station around the globe (except Afghanistan, but that's another story).
Long story short the TV networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, etc.,) charge cable and satellite companies retransmission fees so Apple (or any other distributor) just isn't going to get access to all the network TV content for free. TV networks and cable/sat providers also have long standing (and lucrative) business relationships so neither side is going to be eager to rock the boat.
Nobody will get to transmit network tv for free. The only way would be for apple to include a digital tuner and a coaxial port to attach a terrestrial antenna.
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Really? Source?
I for one wondered why, if a 4th gen Apple TV was going to be released this year. How come there hasn't been any parts leaks like the iPhone/iPad? Those two products have more leaks than the titanic. But a newer Apple TV, that has been rumored for almost 3 years, has no parts leaks????
I believe we have little to look forward to this fall except the iPhone 6.
Laptops have already been updated, and I look for a silent update for the desktops soon. We are not seeing ANY parts leaking for a watch or tv, so i would not suspect to see them or the mythical 12 inch retina macbook air.
Not bad, Apple is great at making sure a product is ready to be released.
But still, eh.
Laptops have already been updated, and I look for a silent update for the desktops soon. We are not seeing ANY parts leaking for a watch or tv, so i would not suspect to see them or the mythical 12 inch retina macbook air.
Not bad, Apple is great at making sure a product is ready to be released.
But still, eh.
The rare voice of reason in these Apple TV forums.
A lot of people have this fantasy that of a world where they'll be able to buy the shows they want off Apple TV for a fraction of what they pay for cable/satellite.
It ignores the fact there is ZERO incentive for content providers to move from the current model to an Apple based system that reaches fewer customers. As much as people complain about the junk content on TV, a lot of the content for good shots is funded by the guaranteed revenue stream from cable/satellite contracts. Moving to a 'piecemeal' system requires that somebody pays the freight.
This isn't the music industry that was caught unprepared for the digital age and desperate for a model to save their future. The TV industry is booming right now. Apple has to focus on a way to 'grow the pie'....not try to take over the pie like the music industry.
Pirates are swashbuckling heroes. They are fighting the system right now to create a better tv tomorrow for YOU!! The more these companies lose from torrents and the like, the more incentive they have to make things easier and more reasonable via the Internet (Ala music and iTunes). Video lags behind music only because the bandwidth wasn't there, mp3s worked even on dialup. Bandwidth is good enough now, time is on our side. As darth vader would say 'It is your destiny!'
This is where Steve Jobs is missed in my opinion
Steve Jobs as head of Pixar was a made man enabling him to forge deals with content producers. Tim Cook as just the head of Apple is the enemy of the content producers and will remain that way, Beats acquisition or not.
Steve Jobs as head of Pixar was a made man enabling him to forge deals with content producers. Tim Cook as just the head of Apple is the enemy of the content producers and will remain that way, Beats acquisition or not.