It takes a lot to impress the Wall St. Journal’s Walter Mossberg, whose role as the world’s highest-profile and probably most influential reviewer makes his a tour de force within the tech industry. Well, if you’re an Apple employee or investor, Mossberg is your best friend today with an effusive review of the much-anticipated Apple TV. Here’s a small snippet of his praise:
“We can easily recommend it for people who are yearning for a simple way to show on their big TVs all that stuff trapped on their computers. We tried it with various combinations of Windows and Mac computers, with movies, photos, TV shows, video clips and music. And we didn’t even use the fastest wireless network it can handle. It performed flawlessly. However, it won’t work with older TVs unless they can display widescreen-formatted content and accept some newer types of cables.”
As a recent convert to Mac-nation, my initial impression is I want Apple TV (and no, this isn’t a shout out to Apple Canada for a demo unit). With a MacBook on my desk and a 50″ television about 15 feet away, the idea of having a well-designed product to easily connect them would be amazing. As Mossberg points out, Apple TV is far from perfect (40GB drive is too small, for example) but it’s a small price to pay if it works as well as advertised.
For more, check out Live Digitally, who doubts Apple can dominate the living room like they’ve done in the MP3 market, as well as Thomas Hawke, who has a top-10 list on why the Apple TV (he calls it the iDongle) is not for him.
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“With a MacBook on my desk and a 50″ television about 15 feet away, the idea of having a well-designed product to easily connect them would be amazing” What about a VGA cable and an audio cable – less than $30 at your local PC shop.
But it wouldn’t be as cool…:) Good idea, though.
I must say that buying a flat panel TV with a VGA input was one of the best “keep with market standards with lots of traction” decision I made (sure it also has HDMI and all). Using it as a second “screen” with my macbook, with frontrow, the previously useless mini-remote and auto discovery of the recently downloaded bitorrent episodes of my favorite shows… Let’s just say it’s quite impressive how well it works.
The extra touch for me was when I dimmed the brightness it only affected the laptop and not the TV screen, a perfect default behavior for this setup in a dark room.
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“What about a VGA cable and an audio cable – less than $30 at your local PC shop”
so why people want wireless network? what about a lan cable?