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Dryden

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Not to be confused with the Mac Mini-looking Apple TV appliance, Apple has been rumored to be developing a full-blown HDTV set. It started with some throwaway remarks from reviewers with advance copies of the Jobs biography published today, but now that the book is out and reporters are digging, there are numerous confirmations popping up.

A 40-50" TV set with a built-in DVR, iCloud, Apps (Netflix, Crackle, ESPN3, etc, if not full-blown iOS), Siri, and iTunes store would certainly be a game changer.

"Siri, what football games are on TV right now?"

A Siri-powered TV would be sweet. How about a massively simplified remote that has just a click-wheel and one button? Completely doable. Hell, how about an iPhone app to remote control the TV, including the DVR, while you're out? Easy as pie. Voice command? Apple's already doing it. They're going to sell a gazillion TV sets if this comes to fruition.

Rumored for late 2012 or early 2013.

Big reveal from Bloomberg is that Apple has already been discussing subscription services for video. A la carte networks? Sign me up! This is THE ONE THING I've wanted from TV carriers for twenty years. My entire family only needs like 12 or 14 channels. If I can dump 100 channels of shit to cut my cable bill in half, I jump in it.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...-to-be-led-by-itunes-creator-jeff-robbin.html
 
Price will be key.

You'd have to twist my arm to pay more than $1200 for a TV, and I can't see myself at this point ever paying more than $1500 no matter how much I'd have to convince myself that it's an OK idea. I can't see something like this being sold for anything less than $2000.

Cutting out cable seems like a good idea at first... until you consider the impact on internet service. Many of us would still have to rely on cable companies for internet and for access to all of this goodness. If this kind of thing took off we'd probably all get hammered with data caps unless the Congress & FCC grew a pair and did something about it. Plus, if a ton of people cut back or cut off their cable TV service because of something like this, what do you think will happen to your internet bill? Time Warner won't simply let me go from paying them $130/month to $50/month without a fight - not when they have me by the balls as the only ISP worth a damn around here.
 
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Interesting - reportedly the last thing Jobs had on his wish list was making an easy to use fully capable TV.

A built-in DVR is a huge key. Also key would be the ability to move that video content from the DVR to other devices for archiving - a major impediment to non-TiVO DVR services from cable and satellite providers.

Oh, yes, and price.
 
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