Apple TV
Articles about Apple TV:
Peter Kirn at the always awesome Create Digital Music reports that a reader has Ableton Live running successfully on Apple TV.
Apple TV is a new peripheral that effectively turns your HDTV into a giant iPod, letting you listen to or view iTunes content on your home theater system. Apple TV has also become a hot platform for hackers, who have added features and even managed to get OS X running on it.
“Will you soon be carrying Apple TV’s to a gig?” asks Kirn.
We’re not holding our breath. Getting Live running on an Apple TV is a bit stupidtastic – not a lot of people would want to work on a machine with the Apple TV’s limited I/O, RAM, hard drive or CPU. But as a hack, this could be pretty impressive. We’re looking to seeing what else people can get the Apple TV to do.
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Filed under: Computer Hardware, Music News, iPods & Portable Media Players
Apple today started shipping Apple TV, a new class of computer peripheral that turns your HDTV into a big screen iPod.
Apple TV connects physically to your television and wirelessly to a Mac or PC running iTunes. The device then lets you play iTunes content on your TV, including movies, TV shows, music, photos, podcasts and video podcasts.
Apple TV isn’t TiVo or a new type of DVD player; it makes your TV the biggest iPod ever
Many analysts seem to be confusing Apple TV with time-shifting devices like TiVo, or comparing it to playback devices like DVD players. It’s neither of these. It’s really more like an iPod that you can attach a big screen to.
Apple itself positions Apple TV as a member of the iPod family:
“Apple TV allows you to wirelessly play your content from your PCs or Macs using your existing WiFi network as well as the newest and fastest version of WiFi-802.11n,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. Read more…
