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YouTube and 160gb Apple TV
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Apple released a press release today which talks about their upcoming YouTube plugin for AppleTV; which was discussed today by Steve Jobs at the All Things D presentation.
In the press release it also talks about a 160gb option for the AppleTV.
Apple today also announced that it is offering a new Apple TV build-to-order option with a 160GB hard drive.
Pricing & Availability
Apple TV, which includes the Apple Remote, is available through the Apple Store® ( www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $299 (US). Apple TV with a 160GB hard drive will be available tomorrow for a suggested retail price of $399 (US). The YouTube feature for Apple TV will be available as a free software update in mid-June.
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You Tube video on an HD tv? Sounds like a great idea, except that You Tube video quality sucks on a 19' monitor. How bad will it look on a 50' Plasma?
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they're uploading content in h264
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What I think is interesting is that the AwkwardTV folks independently arrived at the same idea.
AwkwardTV Plugin Directory
the AwkwardTV community had this on May 20 2007. See here: YouTube - A Series of Tubes
It will be interesting to see what other hacker attempts will be duplicated by Apple.
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Originally Posted by vmarks 
What I think is interesting is that the AwkwardTV folks independently arrived at the same idea.
AwkwardTV Plugin Directory
the AwkwardTV community had this on May 20 2007. See here: YouTube - A Series of Tubes
It will be interesting to see what other hacker attempts will be duplicated by Apple.
But do you think Apple put the whole thing together in 10 days? The deal with youtube, writing software for appleTV, and updating the website? All of that takes time.
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Here's my speculation:
Apple already has good contacts at Google. (see contracts and relationship to do GoogleMaps on iPhone.)
Google owns YouTube.
Apple rings up Google and says "we'd like to put YouTube on the AppleTV, show us some APIs just like you did for our GoogleMaps on iPhone."
Google thinks about it for a day and agrees.
Apple writes the website update and the software in parallel. The website update is written in two days (editorial review being what it is.) The software is written over the next four days and tested.
Heck, is this update released or just announced? If it's just announced, the software could still be in test.
What the hackers have shown is that it's very easy to get a new app into AppleTV. We can presume that the Apple developers know this better than anyone, and if they have YouTube's APIs, that writing a new AppleTV module is pretty rapidly accomplished.
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Originally Posted by vmarks
Heck, is this update released or just announced? If it's just announced, the software could still be in test.
The YouTube update is only announced. No release yet.
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Originally Posted by vmarks
Here's my speculation:
Apple rings up Google and says "we'd like to put YouTube on the AppleTV, show us some APIs just like you did for our GoogleMaps on iPhone."
That made me chuckle a bit heh. I wonder if the quality for regular youtube videos will increase as well.
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One big difference with the Apple YouTube plugin and The Series of Tubes (3rd party YouTube plugin) is that The Series of Tubes only seems to let you watch new YouTube additions, popular videos, etc. The Apple one will let you watch anything on YouTube.
They say YouTube is converting all the videos to h.264 for better streaming, or something. I wonder if this is only for the Apple TV or if the website is going to start streaming in h.264 from now on? If so I hope there is a quality improvement.
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I think YouTube on AppleTV is simply a byproduct of the unannounced YouTube on iPhone.. Think about it...
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Originally Posted by post_break
That made me chuckle a bit heh. I wonder if the quality for regular youtube videos will increase as well.
The ones that are created from webcams won't. People with normal webcams aren't going to be able to take high-enough resolution video that looks good on an HDTV. Same goes for DV camcorders, for that matter. A non-HD mini-DV recording isn't going to look that spectacular on a 50" plasma or LCD TV. Not to mention that HD-quality downloads would take a hell of a lot longer to stream via YouTube... so unless they're going to offer high quality streams for AppleTV user and regular bandwidth-friendly streams for the rest of us, I don't see it happening anytime soon...
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