Comments on: Cringely on Apple TV’s Hard Drive: Hello, P2P! http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/02/16/cringely-on-apple-tvs-hard-drive-hellp-p2p/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:16:09 -0500 hourly 1 By: Simon Bisson http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/02/16/cringely-on-apple-tvs-hard-drive-hellp-p2p/comment-page-1/#comment-108824 Simon Bisson Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:10:33 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/02/16/cringely-on-apple-tvs-hard-drive-hellp-p2p/#comment-108824 Not only is the speculation old, Rupert Murdoch's Sky is already doing something very like that with its Sky By Broadband service, which uses a P2P network to download and share content between subscribers. The Sky service is fast, with good quality content, and free for subscribers of the DTV service (though downloads are time limited). One drawback is that time limited content remains on your hard drive when the DRM licence expires to be shared with other users... Not only is the speculation old, Rupert Murdoch’s Sky is already doing something very like that with its Sky By Broadband service, which uses a P2P network to download and share content between subscribers.

The Sky service is fast, with good quality content, and free for subscribers of the DTV service (though downloads are time limited). One drawback is that time limited content remains on your hard drive when the DRM licence expires to be shared with other users…

]]> By: Obvious http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/02/16/cringely-on-apple-tvs-hard-drive-hellp-p2p/comment-page-1/#comment-108786 Obvious Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:34:26 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/02/16/cringely-on-apple-tvs-hard-drive-hellp-p2p/#comment-108786 This isn't Cringley's idea ... or at least he wasn't the first to think of it ... there was speculation last year that that some form of P2P model would be employed by Apple in future releases of iTunes .... he's simply extended it include @TV. This isn’t Cringley’s idea … or at least he wasn’t the first to think of it … there was speculation last year that that some form of P2P model would be employed by Apple in future releases of iTunes …. he’s simply extended it include @TV.

]]> By: Blindingly Obvious http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/02/16/cringely-on-apple-tvs-hard-drive-hellp-p2p/comment-page-1/#comment-107676 Blindingly Obvious Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:00:22 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/02/16/cringely-on-apple-tvs-hard-drive-hellp-p2p/#comment-107676 Cringely's speculation is silly. Apple has been clear about the reason from the hard drive from the beginning. Apple TV functions as a kind of large video ipod, and the hard drive is for automatically (or selectively) syncing with your iTunes library so that you don't have to wait for a stream from a connected computer (or even have the computer on) in order to play content on your TV. Details here: http://www.apple.com/appletv/sync.html Cringely’s speculation is silly. Apple has been clear about the reason from the hard drive from the beginning. Apple TV functions as a kind of large video ipod, and the hard drive is for automatically (or selectively) syncing with your iTunes library so that you don’t have to wait for a stream from a connected computer (or even have the computer on) in order to play content on your TV. Details here:
http://www.apple.com/appletv/sync.html

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