Comments on: Why Apple’s New iDongle Will Fail

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By: dugang

dugang — Mon, 17 May 2010 06:29:38 +0000

also completely agree with Thomas on this one. All the big name hardware folks are pushing HDTV and pushing it hard. I don’t think people are going to settle for watching expensive movies that look *worse* than SD TV on their HDTV sets

By: jordan shoes

jordan shoes — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:47:00 +0000

I also completely agree with Thomas on this one. All the big name hardware folks are pushing HDTV and pushing it hard. I don’t think people are going to settle for watching expensive movies that look *worse* than SD TV on their HDTV sets.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:28:00 +0000

Thomas,

I am afraid that you are wrong on this one. I will be purchasing iTV for the simple reason that I will be transferring my entire movie collection of DVD's, tapes and hard drive files, in conjunction with my cassette tapes, lp's, cd's and itunes purchased music all to one place -- an imac mini. This will be attached to a 1 terabyte drive and I will be able to access anything at anytime with the imac mini remaining on for 24 hours at a time.

If the price drops to say $100 or $150, I'll purchase another one.
The idea of being able to keep all of your old films and music in one place is absolutely amazing. One could talk about windows media, but to be honest it just doesn't work well.

I am expecting itv to work right out of the box. Anything else, wouldn't be Apple. Additionally, the best compression on the market is easily AAC 256+ and Lossless for music and H. 264 really destroys wmv or avi. The file sizes are just small enough. Of course, I would have liked to see DIVX, but I guess that's asking too much.

This will succeed because of the fact that you can use it with a wired and wireless lan at very high speeds.

Nice Blog.

Richard,
Converted from Windows to Mac October, 2006. With No Regrets.

By: sportsunit

sportsunit — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:13:00 +0000

I think it’s pretty safe to agree with Thomas. This thing will flop hard. It’ll have about the same market share that Macs have. Macs != ipods…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:17:00 +0000

Regarding your HDTV versus standard TV comparison. Why not have them compare the two sitting their normal distance from the television, with their normal sized TV. Simple physiological facts mean they’ll often be unable to see any difference.

You can find some facts and figures on what resolution you can discern, based on viewing distance, screen size and quality of your vision here:

http://www.burnyourbonus.info/hdtv-faq/faq3.html

By: Janio Cabezas

Janio Cabezas — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:52:00 +0000

I forgot to add that TiVo like technology is just a bridge technolgy while we find a way to download (or stream) our content.. I believe in a future where we will only be watching sports, news and certain events live, series will be released for download just like podcasts.. The TV network executive defining our programming is doomed. This is pure long tail, we want to receive niche programming, the programming we want to see.. Just like when we rebelled against the 11 songs we did not like in a 12 song CD, we will rbel against the 100 channels and 24 hoiurs of programming that we never watch, we want to pay for the content we want, and nothing else!

By: Janio Cabezas

Janio Cabezas — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:47:00 +0000

shawn..

I can not agree with your opinion, marketing wil only take you so far, a compelling product that addresses the need of the customer will result in a hit..

10 years, back when the MP3 revolution started, we had the same discussion.. The Thomas Hawks of the time doomed the digital revolution, because we already had the music in better quality media (namely the CD), yet here we stand 10 years after and the majority of the people resigned sound quality to get the convenience of having access to their whole collection at their fingertips..

We fianlly developed the technology that will allow us to do video the same way, this will indeed change the whole game all over again, this time for the movie studios.. We are already exchanging content around, now we would like to watch the content, of course apple's marketing will play a huge role, but a compelling, easy to use product will be the reason we will deem our DVD player unusable, just as we are doing with our CD player a while ago

By: gbor

gbor — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:42:00 +0000

Anonymous, I find it hard to believe that Apple would only think of iTV as a small money-maker. I think they have grand ambitions for this thing. To quote Steve Jobs from the presentation, “We think iTV is going to be pretty popular: Movies, TV Shows, Music, Podcasts, and Photos.”

I also doubt that they want to make more money on the video content. As with iTunes/iPod, their goal is probably to again drive demand for the hardware. Regardless, they better get a rental or subscription service going if they want to make much headway in video.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:09:00 +0000

Anonymous. Even if the thing streams HDTV via OTA this is not what people want. People want premium HDTV content. Premium satellite and premium HDTV CableCARD content.

This coming from a guy who refuses to pay $10/month for data service on his cellphone or $15/month to listen to Howard Stern...