SubscribeApple TV Shipping
Posted in IPTV, News on March 27th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
The Apple TV started shipping last week, and the first positive reviews (Via TUAW) came shortly afterwards. Right away bloggers and journalists started listing reasons why, despite the general positive reviews, you should wait before buying an Apple TV: high price, not too much hard disk space, lack of DVD or DVR support, limited compatible video formats, etc.
Not even 48 hours after it’s launch the first hacks on the device, like upgrading the drive or adding XviD support where posted on the net. It would seem Apple didn’t make it hard for hackers to transform the Apple TV into the device Apple itself couldn’t ship (if they expected to keep their current iTunes content providers).
As Carl Howe points out, the Apple TV is a “game changer”, challenging many of the decades old business models of TV networks and has the potential to blur the line between TV and the Internet (Via Digg).
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