You get home from a long day at work and as you walk into your front door your iphone turns on the tv and the computer in the other room with its wifi connection. You request from your imac to play a little tunes for you. As you listen to your tunes you read your emails and or surf the web on you wall mounted (apple) tv. All while your requested tv shows are being recorded on the built in apple recorder. It gets a little late and you are getting hungry and you request your imac to order you a pizza. As you relax and sit back the imac logs onto the website orders the pizza, pays and requests that it is delivered. Litterally the only thing that you would need to do all evening is talk and get up to answer the door for the pizza man!

Wow, now all you need is a butler to get the door.

Motivation is what you make of it!

Well here goes… “Pushing the repeat button”:

(A copy/paste of an earlier post made by me on numerous Apple-rumor sites)…

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New Cinema Displays are so over due! I think that maybe a version or two of the coming Cinema Displays will have evolved into the new “iTV” or “AppleTv-NonHoppy”. You know… into an All-In-One box with the über-remote, which is “iPhone 2″

The iTV/AppleTV would have the full blown Leopard OS in its stomach and thus include Safari, iChat (Camera on front naturally) and the regular gaming experience among other good things! The mouse of couse… would be the “iPhone 2″ (The new remote) …and as new patent´s show… The new game controller!!! Link: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/05/08/apple_developing_3d_gaming_controller_for_apple_tv.html

This would also help us get rid of the many ugly Set Top Boxes that clutters our TV environment. One box… Simple and easy with an intuative interface which is the “Mac-way” …ALL Apple!!!

Apple still have to make money. So the iPhone would not come bundled with the AppleTV as standard. You would have a simple (but improved) remote that comes with the system. Then buy an iPhone to extend and simplify your couch-surfing Nice to only have one remote on your table. So instead of the simple remote that came with the system, you now can replace it with the combatible “iPhone 2″ which would have the same functions build in.

Yep!, you would certaintly have to buy that on the side! My AAPL has to go up you know!

I would really like my TV to be Apple branded! It would be stylish! No doubt!

If this Scenario where to happen… companies like DELL and Microsoft would shit their pants!

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PLEEEEEEEAAASE Apple!!!

“Over the air broadcasting will not cease to exist, the signals will just now be digital.”
What’s happening next February 18 is that all FULL-power stations will have turned off their analog signals; low-power broadcasters and translators are exempt from the law that mandates the switch to digital TV and they will continue broadcasting in analog. There are roughly 7,000 low-power stations in the US; the vast majority of these will still be analog on Feb 18. Some unknown percentage will switch to digital on some, presently unknown, dates. Digital and analog signals will BOTH be around for AT LEAST several years.

“Almost all TVs (probably >99%) bought in the last 10-15 years has a digital tuner (and many older sets do as well). The number of people who will need these boxes is very small.”
Thoroughly and completely wrong. Digital (ATSC) tuners were only required to be included in TVs shipped after March of 2007. Most TVs bought more than several years ago DO NOT have digital tuners; they only have analog (NTSC) tuners. 22 million people have already applied for converter box coupons; more than 8 million have ALREADY bought boxes with the coupons; many more have bought them without the coupons. The number of sets that will end up connected to digital to analog converter boxes will almost certainly exceed 20 million. This is not a small number. The switch to digital is also adding roughly 5,000 potential new over-the-air TV channels in the US; this is not a small number either. The amount of content available for free via antenna is going to greatly expand.

“People with analog signals will get NO TELEVISION stations on their current sets.” Even allowing that “signals” was intended to be typed as “tuners,” this is still wrong; see above. Many people in rural areas are served entirely by translators and low-power broadcasters, and will still be entirely digital after Feb.

Since the highest quality HD signals are received over the air with antenna (satellite and cable signals are usually compressed), I’ll bet all Macs will have built-in ATSC tuners (at least) very soon.

People with analog signals will get NO TELEVISION stations on their current sets.

They will ALL need to upgrade.

Over the air broadcasting will not cease to exist, the signals will just now be digital.

“What better an opportunity for Apple to penetrate what is already an enormous market bursting at the seams with people in need of a Digital TV upgrade.”

This is not an enormous market. Almost all TVs (probably >99%) bought in the last 10-15 years has a digital tuner (and many older sets do as well). The number of people who will need these boxes is very small.