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Just one man's opinion, but as a tivo early adopter whose tivos have been gathering dust for some time now, I think DVR is a transitional technology - something
by trotsky 16y ago
Just one man's opinion, but as a tivo early adopter whose tivos have been gathering dust for some time now, I think DVR is a transitional technology - something that only makes sense in an environment where bandwidth is poor and rights access is difficult. Apple TV is only really inferior to a platform like boxee in so much as apple chooses to make it so, it wouldn't be hard to duplicate a rights environment like that if they wanted to. I wonder if the ipod would have enjoyed such success if they had never supported anything but fairplay encumbered media.
Which isn't to say that Time Warner makes any more sense. Apple does seem to have a fondness for increasing their vertical integration, what about someone like Infineon? Radio components and TCG style security both are big issues for aapl for the foreseeable future, exclusively designed components there could have as big of an impact as an exclusive cpu.
- jonknee 16y agoAnother man's opinion, but I'll have cable as long as that's where sports are. The fact that I can't watch baseball on my Boxee/AppleTV/ETC means it's not the only set top box I'm going to use. I'd happily pay a good amount for it, like MLB.tv (which is great if you don't like the home team), but there's just not a way for me to do that currently.
- look_lookatme 16y agoThis is huge. NFL will be the last to go, and it's the biggest.
- jonknee 16y agoThe NFL is at least mostly on OTA broadcasts that can be picked up well with a cheap antenna. There are only a few OTA broadcast baseball games with my team per season (when it's the Fox Saturday Baseball game). All the others are on a regional sports network, Sun Sports. They're in HD and look great, but cable/satellite is the only way to get them.
- umjames 16y agoI agree, but local TV and radio stations keep online services from streaming sports events to people in that area. Also, sports is somewhat unique in that the value is all in seeing it live. Personally speaking, once I know the final score of a game, watching a replay of it is worthless. Highlights are one thing, but watching the entire game when you already know who wins, makes no sense to me.