On Apple TV
I haven’t posted in a long while. I guess that I haven’t had much to say. I’m still waiting for some applications for internships to get answered. In any case, I was tempted to buy an Apple TV last night, until I looked up the tech specs.
I wonder what Apple was thinking when they decided to ship an inferior product. What I mean is that AppleTV only can play up to 720p resolution. The HD standard will be 1080p because it has already be chosen for Blu-ray and HD-DVD. I’m shocked that this quality of playback is not supported. I was thinking of buying an Apple TV to play with, but this lack of power convinced me that Apple screwed up big time. I can personally deal with it only having a 40 gb hard drive on board, but I can’t understand why they would use a trashy 5400 rpm laptop drive. I can see why the price is only $300 dollars. Still, if they had also come out with another AppleTV that had a larger and faster hard drive and ran on one of their dual core processors, it would have received a huge number of purchases. The thing would cost more, but people would be willing to dish that out for a ‘puter with an HDMI out that would sit under their TV.
March 26th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
I too was rather excited about this product, but a little irritated to see it couldn’t drive 1080p. It’s just not like Apple. They usually put out a top of the line product and then 6-9 mo later come out with a cheaper/lesser line. Why they decided to go cheaper and try to force an upgrade later is beyond me. Like you, I’m not even considering laying down several hundred unless it pumps 1080p. Seriously Jobs, first you killed PowerPC then this
… It really hurts.