Comments on: The Wall Street Journal Reviews Apple TV, Cautions Power Users To Not Get Too Excited

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By: Martin Hill

Martin Hill — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:16:01 +0000

Oops – I didn’t mean to include the first line of that posting. What I wanted to say was that Nicholas obviously missed something else in Mossberg’s review, namely the fact that the AppleTV does synchronise the photos off the master PC or Mac. It is only secondary or guest computers that don’t yet streeam photos to the AppleTV. That feature is promised in a soon to be available update, so don’t go overboard with your criticism.

-Mart

By: Martin Hill

Martin Hill — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:04:59 +0000

There are quite a few issues with the Xbox that the press release forgets to mention:

Heavy DRM on MS movies downloaded to the Xbox:
– Each movie available for rental only during a several-week window.
– Must watch movie within two weeks of downloading it.
– Once you start watching it, you must finish watching within 24 hours.
Otherwise the movie is deleted.

Can’t copy movies to other PCs, Macs or portable players or burn backups to DVD. (While you can’t burn video DVDs from iTunes, you can burn movies to data DVDs)

Typical Microsoft quality code. David Pogue got a nasty “Can’t play this content because it may not be supported. Status code: 69-00-80004005.” when he tried to fast-forward a movie. Sheesh.

The Xbox is big and noisy and the game remote makes a poor movie/media controller.

Who wants to fight with the kids who want to play a game when you want to watch a movie which you have only got 2 more hours to watch it in before it expires and you waste your money?

The Xbox 360 is $100 more expensive before you even think of adding the wireless adapter ($100) and then a hard drive (only 20GB) yet another $100.

The Xbox could be a good option if you have one, but it won’t be for everyone, just like the AppleTV won’t be for everyone. However, with 100 million iPod/iTunes users out it there represents a potentially massive existing user-base.

-Mart

By: Shawn King

Shawn King — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:28:37 +0000

“the Apple TV cannot download content directly from the Internet.”

Did you even read Mossberg’s review? Mossberg says, “It can also pull a very limited amount of music and video directly off the Internet onto the TV.”