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My Ultimate Apple - Are we almost there yet?
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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So it seems we have bits and pieces of my Ultimate Apple...
Today it became possible to view TV shows on your Mac...but you have to buy them from a Music Store.
We are able to transport movies around on our iPod, but the quality is a bit lacking for a high def screen....
We have Front Stage (I think that's what it's called) that allows us to look at our music, photos, iMovies, and watch A DVD...just A DVD, and the physical disc has to be inserted, and only on our 20" iMacs...
My Ultimate Apple would be for them to put Composite Inputs on the Mac Mini (or equivalent box) with DVI and Sounds outputs as well. Allow it to interface with TitanTV and even have a Serial Out port for changing channels on a cable box. Keep Front Stage on the Mac of your choosing to navigate between these options: TV (Recorded Television shows), iTunes (your music library), iPhoto (your photo library), iMovie (all of your saved movies) and iDVD (see next paragraph).
Time to revamp iDVD. It's amazing as a DVD Creation tool, but with hard drive prices falling and things like 250 and 500 GB Hard Drives be coming more common, we need a program that will allow us to store DVD movies. Those beautiful Video_TS folders. My thought? Buy Delicious Library from Delicious Monster. Make it so that those DVDs on your "shelf" can be linked to actual Video_TS folders. That way you can just select the one you want from your shelf, DVD Player will automatically open and play the DVD.
Oh but iDriveX, what about the fact that people can't get commercial DVDs into their macs? Well that's a great question. With programs like MacTheRipper and DVD2One floating around, it's not Apple's responsibility to provide people with a method to rip their own DVDs until the studios work with them to do it. In the meantime, give the people that do know how to do this an option to categorize and play them elegantly. So call it what you want, DVD Library, just incorporate it into the iApps family.
Finally, allow for networked storage. 802.11g is not going to be an option, especially for streaming television shows (in HD) and DVDs. But 10/100/1000Base-T networks can handle the load. Bundle it all together. Turn the XServe Raid into a home appliance. Store your Music, Your Photos, Your DVDs, all on the RAID. Add storage when you need it. And then buy a Mac Mini for each TV in the house. Use Bonjour for Zero Configuration. Plug the Mac Mini into the home network and it automatically searches for that iApp RAID and is ready to go. Watch a show from any place in the house. Watch your DVD downstairs...Getting tired? Go upstairs and finish it. Friends come over? Show them the vacation photos along with a soundtrack of your choice on the family room computer.
I'll go one step further, put a dock port on the top of every single one of those minis. Sync your iPod on the go from any media station in the house. Just flip on the TV and the mini autorecognized your iPod, Fill it with songs, photos, and music right from your TV.
They all have Bluetooth too, these Mac Minis. So when your cell phone rings, the caller ID shows on the screen. Decide to take the call? It pauses the current activity until you hang up.
The options are endless. I think we have a lot of work to do to get there. Do you think this is where we are going? Discuss.
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Yay let's all be lardasses and sit on the couch and marvel at our huge libraries of ones and zeros! Or enjoy music in a portable form factor and get outside and enjoy the world.
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Join Date: May 2001
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Apple needs to add a program to rip DVD to H.264. It should be part of Front Row, not a new application. iDVD is a creation utility, nothing ripping should go in there. With Apple supporting Bluray though we're not going to get this.
I don't mind DVD ripping, but Apple needs a TV tuner. I know they're trying to sell songs online, but a TV tuner would be really nice as part of Front Row.
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Once you wanted revolution, now you're the institution, how's it feel to be the man?
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Join Date: May 2000
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Originally Posted by bad_quote
Yay let's all be lardasses and sit on the couch and marvel at our huge libraries of ones and zeros! Or enjoy music in a portable form factor and get outside and enjoy the world.
What's this "World" thing you're referring to? Sounds scary.
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It's very scary. And that's what makes it wonderful. It isn't 'safe'.
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