RE: AppleTV formerly iTV

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

LOL

I use a (borrowed) Mac Mini as my main fileserver at home ... it's
beautifully stable, quiet and small and - unlike Windows or Linux - it has
firewire support for hard discs that is stable!

If those iTV things could be patched / hacked to allow selection and
playback of DVD's off a network share and (ideally) allow playback of DVRMS
files from the MCE PC (which I know won't ever happen) then it would be a
cracking bit of kit!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Ian Lowe
> Sent: 09 January 2007 21:24
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] AppleTV formerly iTV
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> Meh, take it or leave it to be honest. I don't actually like the whole
> minimalist thing that apple go for - I had a Mac Mini on my desk for a
bit
> at work, and after the initial "ooooh" it's about as sexy as
a lunchbox.
> Given that the iTV thing looks identical to the mac mini, I'll pass.
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> Perhaps I am just too jaded on apple, but as soon as Jobs started
talking
> about "you can stream from up to 5 computers." I just
switched off -
> nothing
> he said past that point even registered.
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>  "up to an arbitrary number of computers, because that is what
we, in our
> benevolence, will allow you to do". Uh-huh. Screw You Steve.
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> Of course, it will be lapped up, but I'll be damned if I give them a
brass
> bead!
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> Ian "grumpy" Lowe.
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Phil Harris
> Sent: 09 January 2007 20:54
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] AppleTV formerly iTV
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> Yeah but if you could get the iTV to run your own software then isn't
that
> one sexy bit of kit?
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> Phil
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