Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Bread Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: OT: New Apple TV rumours Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:08:32 -0800 Organization: lined up neatly Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <52fbc90f$0$61421$c3e8da3$f017e9df@news.astraweb.com> <120220141239031491%michelle@michelle.org> <120220141503520650%nospam@nospam.invalid> <120220141342068517%michelle@michelle.org> <52fbe681$0$17069$c3e8da3$40d4fd75@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1392408511 16584 127.0.0.1 (14 Feb 2014 20:08:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:08:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Unison/2.1.10 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:56541 On 2014-02-12 21:24:16 +0000, JF Mezei said: > But Apple TV will haveto offer something more compelling than the > software that is built-in TVs today. Not going to buy an Apple TV to > watch Netflix when the Netflix ap embdedd in my Sharp TV is likely better. FWIW, the Netflix app in the AppleTV is *vastly* better than the ones I've seen in any TV and even better than the one in my TiVo. Vastly better. > However, for people who are not cord cutters and still rely on legacy > cable/linear TV, then combining the cable company's proprietary set top > box with Apple's proprietary TV box makes sense. If that's the only way to get content, it's an easy call, especially if it is a means by which the cable companies can start providing the content in better on-demand manner and, hopefully, ultimately, get us rid of the idiotic CableCard business. CableCards are just ridiculous. It would also be nice if some of the content providers would let us deal directly with them. HBO, for example, does not deal with the public. You can only get HBO via any of their services (i.e., "HBO To Go" on your iPad, on-demand) - if you have a contract with a cable provider and get HBO through your cable company.