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You know, about the Apple TV: What the heck happened there? Apple had the concept just about right, I mean, or else you wouldn't be seeing Rokus and Boxee's an

You know, about the Apple TV: What the heck happened there? Apple had the concept just about right, I mean, or else you wouldn't be seeing Rokus and Boxee's and such. They never iterated on it though. There was no real AppleTV 2.0. There was a storage upgrade, but that was it. Strikes me as strange.

jws 17y ago
Apple TV needs content owners to agree to license their content. It is patiently waiting. When {abc,cbs,nbc,espn,discovery,syfi,…} agrees to provide the shows, with commercials, for free over the internet the box is waiting. When they agree to sell commercial free feeds for some small dollar value per month the box is waiting. Imagine just buying the channels you want or watching commercial supported feeds for free. Tell you cable company to shove their bill. (The commercial supported model works. The network will get to sell the spots usually used for local commercials. This will more than cover the bandwidth bill.) But nothing happens until the content producers can make a decision. It's been years and most movie studios still won't accept revenue through iTunes. No breath holding.
- CamperBob 17y ago
  I'd love to be able to pay for a commercial-free feed, but that's a bigger step than you may realize. The network affiliates will scream bloody murder, for one thing. The set of viewers paying for the commercial-free feeds will be almost identical with the set of viewers the advertisers want to reach the most.
  - houseabsolute 17y ago
    I'm already doing this by simply buying the content I'm interested in watching through iTunes. At the rates I consume television, it's a very competitive strategy compared to paying for satellite or cable.
CamperBob 17y ago
As the low product on the totem pole, I'd imagine that AppleTV is basically a pool of engineers who are constantly getting called up for firefighting duty elsewhere.

jws 17y ago

Apple TV needs content owners to agree to license their content. It is patiently waiting. When {abc,cbs,nbc,espn,discovery,syfi,…} agrees to provide the shows, with commercials, for free over the internet the box is waiting. When they agree to sell commercial free feeds for some small dollar value per month the box is waiting. Imagine just buying the channels you want or watching commercial supported feeds for free. Tell you cable company to shove their bill. (The commercial supported model works. The network will get to sell the spots usually used for local commercials. This will more than cover the bandwidth bill.) But nothing happens until the content producers can make a decision. It's been years and most movie studios still won't accept revenue through iTunes. No breath holding.

CamperBob 17y ago
I'd love to be able to pay for a commercial-free feed, but that's a bigger step than you may realize. The network affiliates will scream bloody murder, for one thing. The set of viewers paying for the commercial-free feeds will be almost identical with the set of viewers the advertisers want to reach the most.
- houseabsolute 17y ago
  I'm already doing this by simply buying the content I'm interested in watching through iTunes. At the rates I consume television, it's a very competitive strategy compared to paying for satellite or cable.

CamperBob 17y ago

As the low product on the totem pole, I'd imagine that AppleTV is basically a pool of engineers who are constantly getting called up for firefighting duty elsewhere.