5/21/2007
Watch YouTube on Your Apple TV
Here's a YouTube video showing off a new Apple TV plug-in called "A Series of Tubes." The plug-in allows you to browse YouTube videos on your Apple TV. Sure, the Flash encoded YouTube videos look like crap on a HDTV. YouTube doesn't even look good when stretched out to its default 480 x 360, let alone 640 x 480 or HD. But YouTube does have thousands of clips and can provide endless hours of entertainment.Not ready to start tinkering around with plug-ins for your Apple TV? You can still save videos off YouTube and convert them for your iPod/iTunes. Check out this tutorial: How to Copy Videos Off YouTube.
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The Apple TV is designed to extend ones iTunes media collection to the living room.
I use the MVix Wireless HD Media Centre (MX-760HD), which I believe is a far superior general purpose media player, especially with the NDAS capability added by the latest firmware (http://www.mvixusa.com). But if I were heavily invested in iTunes and iTunes Store content, I have no doubt that the best media centre for for me would be the Apple TV. All that Apple have done is extend the iTunes/iPod ecosystem to the living room so that your iTunes media collection is no longer stuck on your PC and iPod. No one with a heavy iTunes investment in movies, music, TV episodes can ever think of the Wii/PS3/XBox as a realistic alternative to the Apple TV (just as they would not consider the Zune as an alternative means of consuming their iTunes content) and since the iTunes store regularly sells as much as 90% of all digital multimedia content on some weeks (average 80%), that means that virtually all people who are buying their digital music, movies, TV content, etc. online will likely conclude that the Apple TV is the better media player for bringing their digital media collection to the television - not the best in the world (I vote for the MVix), but the best for them.
I use the MVix Wireless HD Media Centre (MX-760HD), which I believe is a far superior general purpose media player, especially with the NDAS capability added by the latest firmware (http://www.mvixusa.com). But if I were heavily invested in iTunes and iTunes Store content, I have no doubt that the best media centre for for me would be the Apple TV. All that Apple have done is extend the iTunes/iPod ecosystem to the living room so that your iTunes media collection is no longer stuck on your PC and iPod. No one with a heavy iTunes investment in movies, music, TV episodes can ever think of the Wii/PS3/XBox as a realistic alternative to the Apple TV (just as they would not consider the Zune as an alternative means of consuming their iTunes content) and since the iTunes store regularly sells as much as 90% of all digital multimedia content on some weeks (average 80%), that means that virtually all people who are buying their digital music, movies, TV content, etc. online will likely conclude that the Apple TV is the better media player for bringing their digital media collection to the television - not the best in the world (I vote for the MVix), but the best for them.
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