[Tig] Apple vs. Sony

[TSassoon at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/28/07 8:16:15 AM, jpo at prestodigital.ca writes:

> Oh, but they are... selling TV's.    It just doesn't look like the TV that 
> we are used to seeing.
> 


I had one set up for my wife, who wanted more HD PVR space than our LG3410, 
using a Mac Mini and an Elgato ATSC tuner, which comes with PVR software and 
free TitanTV web program guide. Worked great, but she was bothered by the 
softwaryiness of it all, the bits and pieces, and the lack of real time hardware 
downconversion to DVD-R, so I took it away.

If they sold essentially the same thing in a single box with a Blu-Ray burner 
and a nice screen, she'd be all over it. We're not the slightest bit 
interested in their TV server product until it properly supports OTA HDTV - it looks 
to us like it's just a way of blitting iTunes video to a monitor. Ho hum.



Tim Sassoon
SFD vfx & creative post
Santa Monica, CA






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