[mythtv-users] Frontend for Apple TV 4

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:51 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:54:42AM -0500, Tom Bongiorno wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Apple's apparent
> > > > hostility to MPEG2 has always intrigued me.
> > >
> > > Really simple and short answer - they don't give a **** because that
> > > doesn't earn them anything !
> > >
> > > Remember that Apple long since abandoned all but a pretence about it
> being
> > > about "the customer" - now it's clear that the whole strategy is about
> > > proprietary systems, customer locking, walled gardens, and taking a
> slice
> > > (30%) of everything the user spends.
> > >
> > > Perhaps I'm just getting cynical, but I get the impression that any
> > > ability they offer to access "your own stuff" is incidental and only
> > > allowed grudgingly on the basis that they can't get away with not
> > > supporting it (yet).
>
> [deletia]
>
> >
> > You are correct, you are getting cynical. Again, none of the low power
> > streaming devices natively support MPEG2 for good reason. None of the
> > streaming services, that they were created to serve, stream in MPEG2. And
>
>     That's a stupid reason. That ingores one of the original use cases
> for home video, namely creating your own content. People already have
> stuff. These aren't even terribly geeky people. They have it because
> previous generations of devices used those old formats.
>
> [deletia]
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Outside of our niche group, MythTV users and the like, who is creating
their own MPEG2 content?
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