[mythtv-users] Who's going to be the first?

Gabe Rubin gaberubin at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 23:47:53 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> The operative word there is "looks".
>
> I just don't see what's so great about it. For the same money you can get many units that are not locked down, and have
> internal storage as well.
>
> Other than the physical form-factor, what's the big deal? The ability to over-pay for programming and have Apple tell you
> what you can and can't do?
>
> Apple hype only goes so far, sooner or later you have to deliver the goods.
>

Can't you stream anything from inside your network as well on this
thing (well maybe not anything, I don't know what codecs and
containers this device can play) so you could theoretically get this
and play all your media, including music, through you home
entertainment system in a very nice form factor with a great UI.  In
other words, you don't need to "rent" content from apple (but the
option is always there to do so)?

I realize I can do this now with myth.  But for most, that is not an
option.  And I am willing to bet that as nice as the myth UI has and
is still becoming, it doesn't compare to the UI on this device (and
for that matter no other device out there compares).

For lots of people, that is a huge selling point and $99 is pretty
cheap for the hardware.


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