http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/ Engadget Comments for AT&T planning IPTV for Apple TV in 2008? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/May 31st 2007 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/May 31st 2007 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/
"For those who eat and drink TV - now you can PTV too."]]>May 31st 2007 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/
hahahaha! I can't wait to see the commercials for that one.]]>May 31st 2007 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwvb7v_yckg]]>May 31st 2007 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/May 31st 2007 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/
Walt: But it's a set-top box...

Steve:
No, we've wanted to do this for a few years. But we thought of this as a set-top box replacement. The minute you have an STB you have gnarly issues, CableCARD, OCAP... that just isn't something we would choose to do ourselves. We couldn't see a go-to-market strategy that makes sense. But wait, there are a lot more DVD players than STBs, we just want to be a new DVD player for the internet age. And that's what we can be. So our model for the Apple TV is like a DVD player for the internet.]]>May 31st 2007 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/May 31st 2007 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/
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I'll 2nd that * ]]>May 31st 2007 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/May 31st 2007 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/
An Apple TV manifesto here:
http://techshouldwork.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-apple-tv-should-work.html]]>May 31st 2007 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/May 31st 2007 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/
2) the only issue I see if a DVR function, I doubt Apple with allow DVR if they are also selling some of these shows on iTunes. unless its recordable for limited time.
]]>May 31st 2007 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/May 31st 2007 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/May 31st 2007 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/Yeah.. and Leopard is delayed until 2008 too ;)]]>May 31st 2007 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/May 31st 2007 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/May 31st 2007 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/
Xbox 360 is primarily a gaming device, and it seems pretty unlikely that anyone would buy one who is not a gamer, no matter how much media functionality MS piles onto it. (I'm a gamer, and I like the 360, including its media functionality. But I would never reccommend it to my non-gamer friends who just wanted the media. It would confuse the heck out of them.)

So you may compare IPTV or other media feature sets, but just be congniscent that the devices are targeting different markets, and adding IPTV serves a different purpose for each company.]]>May 31st 2007 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/
Guys, Microsoft doesn't sell IPTV STBs. In current U-Verse deployments the Microsoft STB software goes on Motorola or Scientific Atlanta or other vendor's STBs. Microsoft gets money for the software. If AT&T deploys IPTV over Apple TV it would still use Microsoft software (perhaps written in Java?) and all of the Microsoft IPTV back-end servers and Microsoft software would still be used. Microsoft would make just as much money as in a traditional IPTV deployment.]]>May 31st 2007 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/May 31st 2007 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/AppleTV supports 720P -- since when is that not HD video? (And I don't necessarily see a physical limitation keeping it from supporting 1080i either -- Apple could probably turn it on with a software update). As for which is the better platform, lets wait until this is more than vaporware, then it will be easier to judge.]]>May 31st 2007 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/May 31st 2007 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/
When the next Major PS3 firmware updates rolls out, RSS will become the platform that future media will be built on. I seem to recall that it does 1080p. Then you can use Yahoo Pipes to roll your own TV channel. The days of EPG and IPTV are long gone. I've seen the future and it's not what you all think. The Cable and Satelite guys are in trouble. They know it. Apple's paradigm is transient. It's no different from the cable guys. Media shifting is where it's at.]]>May 31st 2007 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/
The apple tv is so limited and useless, you really cant compare both based on functionality.
I dont doubt somethign great will eventually evolve out of this project. But evolution never stops and mce is light years beyond the walls of apples intelligence in the media integration dpt.]]>May 31st 2007 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/Jun 1st 2007 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/Until the bandwidth increases 5 fold and the price drops by half the adoption rates for any bandwidth hogging applications like IPTV or Internet Download services for Movies will at the most remain niche. The hype shall continue from the geeks who have to feel the need to justify their purchase of such toys.
For the foreseeable future Walmart will still be a core distributor of DVD's and Netflix will continue to thrive.
Verizon has chosen the FTTH option and states it is committed to deploying it over the next 10 years spending close to $20 billion.
Yet the stock price for Verizon has not shifted much i.e. the Street expects that Verizon needs to spend this money to stay alive or loose out to the Cable companies.
Apple TV may have features that are great and gorgeous yet it is not for the moment bringing in 10% or more of the revenues for Apple. Ipod's have been helping hold up Apple stock the last several years and possibly for another couple of years before that market taps out as well.
As such adding services is what Apple sees as a way to sustain revenues thus Youtube on Apple TV and possibly IPTV on Apple TV. But this plan will not sustain itself as the crucial bandwidth issues aren't controlled by Apple.
Wait for more service offerings to be paired with this product as a means to try and make it viable. For now it is a very very small niche.
]]>Jun 1st 2007 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/Jun 1st 2007 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/12:48pm - "Works fine off cable modem -- works even better on 100mbit fiber optic networks I hear people have. "

Perhaps this is a referance to IPTV with ATT?]]>Jun 1st 2007 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/atandt-planning-iptv-for-apple-tv-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2007 3:48AM