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Apple working on streaming your iTunes library to your iPhone? {Engadget}
Aug 8th 2008 2:38AM ..also for those with WiFi access at work, airport, Starbuck etc.. it means access to every piece of media on their computer for free with no limit... until the 2TB iPod comes out i can't put all my media on my iPod and even if i could it would be huge... this means i have access to everything and the device is tiny... think access to 2TB in a device the size of a nano... that sound pretty appealing to me... all you have to decide is how big a screen you'd like... size to storage is not an issue any more...
Apple working on streaming your iTunes library to your iPhone? {Engadget}
Aug 8th 2008 2:31AM but for those with large limits it means access to all the media on their computer (i have 2TB of music and movies) with a wafer thin, incredibly inexpensive player with very little to no storage... since you have access to everything wirelessly there is no need for lots of storage on the device.... extending this to documents on your computer would be pretty awesome too... open, read, edit, email documents that reside on your computer from your iPhone or iPod Touch would be awesome.
Apple working on streaming your iTunes library to your iPhone? {Engadget}
Aug 8th 2008 2:23AM isn't this basically slingPlayer for iTunes?
Hope's Aeris bicycle begs to get run over {Engadget}
Jul 2nd 2008 2:02PM questions and comment...
- how do you raise the seat... that's a pretty big detail to miss
- anyone who has actually ridden a bike with fenders in the rain knows that those fenders don't cover the tires enough to do squat... will not keep water off of you.. your butt yes, but your feet legs will get soaked from spray off of the front wheel and the back wheel by the seat tube.
LG Dare hands-on {Engadget}
Jun 25th 2008 10:19AM are you guys looking at the same interface i am? cuz that's friggin' OOG - A - LAY!! just brutal!!
Snow Leopard to drop PowerPC support? {Engadget}
Jun 11th 2008 2:47PM as the owner of a Dual 2 GHz G5 that still has great performance under 10.5.3... this blows dead bears!!!
iPhone 3G is finally official, starts at $199, available July 11th {Engadget}
Jun 9th 2008 3:46PM put a sling client on there... sling is demoing one today and why the hell do you need more than 8 Gigs... 16 Gigs becomes overkill? with a sling client movies, music, DVR/Tivo, cable etc all streamed from home.. no storage on the phone necessary... dump a few movies and/or music playlist, podcasts on there for the plane ride and you're good to go... take some photos.. upload them and view them online (mobile.me)... need to be thinking forwards not backwards... lots of storage on the device is going to be a thing of the past with 3G speeds you can stream to the device.
The 3G iPhone not unboxed {Engadget}
Jun 7th 2008 3:54PM i've gotta say the front facing camera hole looks totally photoshopped... the reflection is fine but... the camera hole is fake.
aTV Flash goes commercial: plug-and-play hacks for your Apple TV {Engadget}
May 24th 2008 8:54AM you should definitely investigate it further... since you can stream (rather than sync) to the appleTV, it means that you don't really need storage on the device at all. making a hack to do this kind of useless.
you can just add externals to your computer and store as much as you'd like... i have almost 1TB of movies and music that i stream to my appleTV.. when you stream they just show up in the list just as if they were physically on the appleTV so in the use case there is really no difference.
Roku Netflix Player hands-on, first impressions {Engadget}
May 23rd 2008 11:06AM - can't play ripped DVDs and BlueRays
Watch them on your computer, or HEY, here's a novelty: On your DVD player or Blu-Ray player.
> i've kind of invested a lot of money in a 52 inch flat screen and a pretty expensive home theater sound system that it might be kinda nice to utilize for watching movies ... what a dumb ass... i like to sit down and watch a movie the way the director actually intended it to be watched... good video, good sound. don't tell me... you're a student... have fun watching movies on your shitty, tiny computer screen, and crappy computer speakers.. maybe when you graduate you can get yourself a real system to watch your movies on and you'll know what i'm talking about.
also you might like to join the rest of us here in the year 2008... Sony might not know it, you might not know it, but Netflix and Ruko and Apple and many others realize it.. physical media sucks... REALLY BAD! it's on it's last legs... in fact, that's the reason this Netfix box exists... c'mon man get a clue! I access all my media from a click of a button from a comfortable sofa in my living room, with a great screen and great sound. no more searching through and storing 100s of DVDs and CDs... what used to take up a wall in the living room now takes u a tiny space... sits on 2TB of hard drives in the office (4 tiny HDD that are backed up). just finding or knowing what you have to watch with physical media sucks... you have to look through hundreds of cases, then take the thing out, walk over the player, eject, put the thing in, wait and wait for the FBI warning, sometimes even wait through commercials, click through menus.. complete BS.. then when you're done you gotta do the reverse... physical media sucks ass!!! i sit on my couch and click through menus... click on the movie and it starts... it's so easy to access movies that sometimes i just find myself watching scenes from movies that i like... i would never do that with physical media since the process is so long and painful in comparison. you can always tell someone who hasn't used a media streamer/server.. they just don't get how much, how they access their media now really sucks... and no more scratched discs when my nieces and nephews come over... like i said physical media sucks ass!
- no ripped music
Because we all need to listen to music on our television.
> no, i like to listen to my music through a very expensive sound system in my living room that my appleTV is attached to through my very expensive receiver.. you might think that your logitech computer speakers really rock LMAO!... but gotta tell you.. they are shite!! what a joke!! did you actually think about your response before you wrote it?
- no home movies
That sounds exciting...
> it is actually!
- no photos
Yawn. I can connect my camera to my TV if I want to do that.
> again.. i have access to everything with a few clicks... you need to store and find the disc or the flash stick or whatever you use, put it it you camera walk over to the TV plug it in etc, etc... again it's bullshit... a few click and i'm watching my photos.
- no internet radio
Again. Computer does this fine.
> again... you might think your crappy computer speakers rock.. but i'd kinda like to be able to have access to all my music with a few clicks and play that music on a really good sound system that resides in my living room...
- no podcasts
Again. Computer does this just fine.
> see above... there are even HD video podcasts that look great on a bigger screen.
- no purchase movies
That's what you use your DVD or Blu-Ray player for. Bonus: you have physical media to keep.
> there is this new thing that came out yesterday, i think.. it's called backup software.. not only that, most of my movies are ripped from DVDs so i have the physical media as well anyway... they sit in a storage closet in albums... hopefully i never have to look at that crappy medium again... again who the hell wants to sort through, store, and be putting in and taking out physical media.. don't want to deal with it.... i'm lazy... everything from the push of a button from my sofa, that's the ticket.
- no YouTube
It looked like crap on an HDTV. I know. I had an Apple TV.
> yes youTube looks like crap.. but the stuff you are looking at on there is not for quality, it's just to see something funny or interesting or to see something that you just can't see anywhere else.. so you aren't looking for quality anyway
- no Flikr
Oh, who gives a crap? I don't have a Flickr account, and I don't give a damn about my friends' crappy photos-- At least, not enough to watch them on my TV.
> me either but lots do... and it's not available on the Netflix box
How many non-ripped movies and TV shows can you watch on the Apple TV for $10 a month?
> that's probably the only really good use for this box is to watch TV Shows.. other than that it sucks ass!!
> and know this.. as soon as they put good movie content on there... not the bargain bin crap they have on their now... believe this you are going to have to start paying they same price as you are going to pay from iTunes, Vudu or whoever else... the studios will see to that... this low price they have now is because the current content is complete CRAP!
>So other than some of the TV shows... that i can record on my DVR or TV card on my computer and import into iTunes and watch on AppleTV for FREE anyway... i guess in your world $0 is more than $10 or whatever your Netflix account costs you... the box is an extremely limited functionally and has cheep content that most of which i can get for free elsewhere anyway.
