[opendtv] Re: News: Apple Said to Prepare New 99-Cent TV Rental Service
- From: "Mike Tsinberg" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:58:05 -0400
I use both Netflix from Blu Ray player and AppleTV. It is a big difference
in user experience. Apple TV has smooth and very attractive interface, and
very nice playback quality and control. You do not have to use PC for any of
its operations. The Netflix streaming is very clunky, you have to go to PC
to change your "Instant Queue", it is always pushing you to rent disks and
playback control is very clunky as well. Yes Apple TV costs more as well..
To me the value of these streaming devices for entertainment is to sit
comfortably in your chair and operate with remote control fast and
efficient. I do not know if you can beat Apple TV in that area.
Best Regards,
web: www.keydigital.com <http://www.keydigital.com/>
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Behalf Of dan.grimes@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:43 AM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: Apple Said to Prepare New 99-Cent TV Rental
Service
I would like to say that I don't see the new Apple TV appliance going far
because it is so limited in its sources: iTunes, YouTube and Flickr. I
would rather buy a gaming console that lets me play a BluRay, play a video
game or watch content from a vast number of internet sources (dare I say,
including those with Flash). This way there is only one or two boxes to
deal with rather than having three or four or even five separate set-top
boxes.
So that is what I would like to say but I won't because I am always the
non-standard media consumer. So I will simply say that it doesn't have any
appeal to me.
Dan
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