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

[jedi]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 04:47:53PM -0700, Gabe Rubin wrote:
> 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)?

     Sure. You can center your entire home media setup around iTunes
and feed all of your stuff through that. Then you can kind of do with
this device what you can do with a lot of other device and a generic
Linux/Windows/MacOS fileshare.

> 
> 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).

     It's probably just more of the same: Front Row.

     It's basically MythVideo with some frills added and a remote that
been dumbed down to the point where it actually gets in the way of 
usability.

     It's main advantage over MythTV would mainly be netflix integration.
Although there's no word yet if the new ATV will support any sort of PVR
integration. 

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

     The main selling point of this devices is iTunes.