The New Apple TV
Steve Jobs announced a new version of AppleTV at MacWorld to considerable and deserved fanfare. He said that the old version was wrong because did not understand that people wanted to rent movies. from the TV — you’re kidding? I really wanted to download movies on my PC and then see if I could coax the AppleTV into finding and streaming them from my PC to the TV. Now there are lots of studios on board and they have a good (albeit siloed) three-screen solution. This is a major improvement, but not the one that will win unless it becomes truly open.
Questions:
Ok, I need a third box on the TV (in addition to my DVD and Tivo) Can I play any of my own content on it or only what Apple approves?
Can I rip DVDs I already own and store them on the AppleTV?
What happens to all the content I buy from Apple if I want to switch vendors?
I’m pretty sure I won’t like the answers.