10-05-2010, 02:08 AM
Breand Wrote:I'm still trying to figure out what on Earth the point of the AppleTV is when whatever it does can be done for nothing with your PC, or for half the price with other streamboxes, or free if you have game systems.
You get the smug satisfaction of giving your money to a douchebag in a turtleneck for something that should cost nothing.
Hell, the new TV we got for our bedroom has streaming and hulu and everything built in anyway.
Grieve Wrote:It's the same argument as for other Apple devices - they make it easy for the regular, non-geeky person. I'm a geek - I have no problem doing everything via the PC. My wife...not so much.
Can the new one do the ridiculously simple task of streaming a divx file off a pc without having to hack it yet? That was a bit of the flaw in the "make things easier" portion of the old one.
I remember before it was released someone saying that it would be easier to use this to stream Non Steve Jobs Explicitly Approved Forms of Media (sold by apple, natch) - but hadn't heard since anyone bought one..
If so for 99 bucks would be an okay device for someone who doesn't have a game system or a new tv and just wants to stream.