Interesting piece by Gizmodo’s Joel Johnson on why Airplay may be the key to Apple TV’s success: http://gizmodo.com/5634087/forget-apple-tv-airplay-is-apples-sneak-attack-on-television
Is AirPlay the secret sauce?
Posted: September 10, 2010 in Apple TV, media, TechnologyTags: airplay, Apple, Apple TV
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Apple TV – not quite the full picture
Posted: September 2, 2010 in Apple, Apple TV, internet, Mac, Uncategorized, video
Without being able to test-drive it, it’s hard to know quite what to make of the revamped Apple TV.
Apple TV has become an integral and much-loved part of our family’s leisure time – as much for the promise of TV a la carte as for the convenience of renting movies on a whim and banishing video store late fees forever – and we’d just picked up a 160Gb version as we are increasingly loading it up with family movies and slideshows from the Mac. Even with Bermuda’s sluggish speeds, it works well enough for us to never go back to renting DVDs. Ever.
But I have to say I was hoping for a bit more from this next generation. Netflix is nice but you can’t get access from Bermuda without a US VPN – and given that the new Apple TV is apparently a purely streaming device with no storage, I’m not sure how that might work. At present you have to do a hack using aTV, and my experience is that the VPN doesn’t work easily – and of course there’s the hassle of having to renstall aTV if you update the Apple software.
I am not techie enough to understand all the ins and outs of the new HTML 5 web technology that Apple, amongst others, believe will herald the demise of Flash. But this amazing site, developed by Google with the band Arcade Fire, for its Chrome browser, is an astonishing example of what it can do.
Go to www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ and enter the address of where you grew up and The Wilderness Machine, using Google Maps and Street View will magically transport you there via several screens that pop up and move around the screen, all set to Arcade Fire’s song “We Used To Wait” from their new Suburbs album.
Astonishing stuff.
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