[mythtv-users] Frontend for Apple TV 4

[Henk D. Schoneveld]

On 10 Nov 2015, at 17:51, 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).
> 
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> 
>> 
>> 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.
It’s not a stupid reason, you think it’s a stupid reason, that are different things.
> 
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