[Osx-nutters] Macworld Keynote

[Roger Howard]

On Mon, January 8, 2007 11:38 am, Kevin Callahan wrote:
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> On Jan 8, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Roger Howard wrote:
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>> On Sun, January 7, 2007 5:27 pm, David Cake wrote:
>>> At 7:54 PM -0700 6/1/07, LuKreme wrote:
>>>> OK, so are we gonna gather in an ichat channel or something on
>>>> Tuesday (09:00 -0800) to see the new octocore macs, the iPhone, and
>>>> whatever else The Steve has up his sleeve?
>>>
>>> 	I think we will see iLife, iWork, and I'm guessing this will
>>> be the iWork release with a spreadsheet.
>>> 	Octocores will be shown if they have them.
>>> 	I am guessing iTV will be his big thing, and what their big
>>> front page teaser is about.
>>
>> If so, either I'm not *getting it* or think the hype may be
>> overdone. What
>> would be worth the hype for iTV? I think it'll need to be more than
>> Airport Express for Video - PVR functionality at a minimum.
>>
>> Still praying for a more hub-like iTunes experience - everytime I
>> travel I
>> feel the pain of not being able to sync my iPod to multiple iTunes...
>
> front page of Seattle bus. section today: Gates showing off Xbox and
> TV merge

I dont want to debate MS vs Apple convergence strategies, but I guess I'm
just wondering if it IS as simple as an Airport Express for Video (which
is all I've gotten of the concept so far) then it seems pretty
un-revolutionary... sure, throw in Apple UI, simplified integration,
etc... but what about PVR functionality? Will we have an OSX Media Center
Edition as a host for it? Will it really integrate TV/movie watching with
the Mac, or just be a play-through box (which we can do today with a bit
of cabling) with a FrontRow interface? Will it be tied to iTMS for video
content (plus whatever you can transcode externally), or will it pull in
content from sat, cable, YouTube, etc?

I know if it's just a way to browse my iTunes and iPhoto databases and
display the contents onscreen I'll be a bit disappointed... I'm hoping for
an Apple TiVO (and then some)!

I'm not trying to troll, just wondering what the speculation is saying,
whether (since I'm not really a TV watcher) this is something people are
starving for?