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Hulu+ provides the full library for a lot of (primarily NBC right now) shows as well. For $10/month and a small media PC (Acer Revo R1600 in my case) my wife a
by enjo 16y ago
Hulu+ provides the full library for a lot of (primarily NBC right now) shows as well. For $10/month and a small media PC (Acer Revo R1600 in my case) my wife and I are able to watch more TV than we can reasonably handle. I love the service.
We've dropped our cable. We use a combination of streaming Netflix, Hulu, and Redbox for all of our entertainment needs. I just don't see where Apple TV provides any real advantage. Especially with XBox promising Hulu support early next year.
- dbrannan 16y agoAgreed, and I own an older AppleTV. It hardly gets used anymore other than to stream Flickr photos now and then as a screen saver.
- thehigherlife 16y agocheckout the crystal hd addon chip and the compatible XBMC builds for a reinvigorated apple tv experience on the older boxes.
- powrtoch 16y agoI've got basically the same setup. If AppleTV has got an advantage, it's in packing all these things into a neat, tiny package with a clean and simple UI. Standard procedure for Apple really, and it has worked for them in the past. To me the question is whether they've let all these competing services catch on too much before throwing their hat back in. Virtually everyone who knows what AppleTV is/was is already aware of Hulu and Netflix. So they've got to do a really good job of improving the experience with these channels, or alternately target less tech-savvy people who aren't aware of these alternatives. In my experience, anyone who wasn't raised with game consoles does not want to deal with them when trying to watch movies. My father would sooner drop a couple hundred bucks on a redundant DVD player than have to learn what "sign in to xbox live" means, or remember that the green button means go and the red one means go back.