Wednesday, 22 August 2012

Apple TV

For the last two blogs, i've talked about my personal experiences with technology and that's not because i'm switching over to that side of technology, it's because there's nothing really going on in the tech world that's very interesting to me and some of the storys that i'm seeing is the apple and Samsung patent war which i'm actually getting tired of but it's over the a couple of days so i'll let you know how the consumer is going to lose. in a nut shell, if samsung wins the consumer loses and if apple wins the consumer wins so either way we are going to lose.

You can probably guess from the title that i'm going to talk about the apple TV, i've not much to say on the Apple TV unless i digress like normal.  It's got some great built in feature but i'll talk about the main features first. Right we all know there's a little Apple set top box and that lets you view your iTunes content and you can select from a wide range of movies and rent them or buy them and they will be stored onto the apple TV box for keeping. It's not only movies no no, with a product called Apple TV it would be stupid if it only had movies and not TV programmes. There has been plenty of rumours going round that Apple are getting TV companys like NBC and ABC to have their Shows stream straight to the apple TV for easy viewing. No need to record the favourite programs they'll already be there on the apple servers ready for you to stream or download them.

As one of the quotes from the walter iccasson biography of steve jobs, it says 'I think i've finally cracked Apple TV' so In the upcoming months could we see an actual Apple TV and i'm not talking about a little set top box, a 32 inch or 42 inch television produced by apple that's already got Apple TV built in to it's core.

Now on the great features, Something that you might not know but Apple TV is that you can connect your iPad or iPhone or iPod to your apple TV by a USB cable or via a wireless connection. You can view the movies that you have on your iOS device on the TV and here comes the fun part, Connect your iDevice upto the Apple TV and lets say you're playing real racing, you can use your iPhone has a remote control so you can lie back looking at your television while playing a great iOS title. The best part is that you're iPhone screen will not be turned off, if you look at your iPhone during the experience it will be a Wingscreen mirror so you can see what's going on behind you from your iPhone.

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