Apple planning additional Apple TV models?

TiVo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, and PVR functionality.

That *is* a good point. I ordered the 2G iPod Shuffle when it was first announced and it too was on a page that said, “select your iPod Shuffle” but with only one option. Now apple has various colors to choose from. I do think the AppleTV will come with bigger hard drive options. I doubt they will go the TiVo, DVR route because that will only detract from their iTunes Store business model. I think once Apple can get more contracts with Movie studios we’ll see this product have a lot more fanfare. Oh yeah, and get some HD content on iTunes Store!!!

obvious: TVTUNER + bigger HDD

I think bigger HD, boot from USB and 5.1 support, maybe 1080p support. Yeah, I know the first two can be done, thanks to a bunch of great people. Either way, my Mac Nana (aka Apple TV) is at home waiting to get hooked up to my new setup.

Rippey

Sure, we’ll get a 60GB model in Black for a $100 bump. Wheeee…zzzzz

why not a white one like the Airport Extreme, it would be nice. Also some ind of video in or at least support for usb-devices such as the eye-tv. And hey, why not being able to stream audio to an airport express like you can from iTunes.

i think the compatibility with eye TV as well as using an external hd for more memory space can and will be done by a software update without an additional fee.

A new variant will propably have a bigger HD, 5.1 and 1080p for more the pro kind of target group. I like to see an DVD drive in there as well but i doubt it.

my “Apple TV Pro” would be:

- Dolby Digital 5.1
- 1080p
- Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD quality playback
- bigger internal hard drive
- external USB 2.0 drive support
- gigabit ethernet port
- direct network access to video/audio files (bypass iTunes)
- dual HD tuner
- video/audio recording
- free TV listings database access

I want an Apple TV Home Media Server. A small version of an XRAID system that can hold all of a household’s media. I’d like it to have the ability to host multiple versions of the library related files for each user while sharing the actual content on the server. I want to be able to rip DVDs to the server, too.

I also think PVR is would be something Apple would consider. Everyone thinks it would hurt iTunes sales but that would be true for ripping CDs or even DRM free music but Apple offers (or will soon) both of those things. The ability to rip DVDs and record live TV will have the effect of putting more Apple TVs on set tops and will create a larger market for iTunes content.

DVD playback. DVR functionality. Crazy big hard drive.

DVR is a must. And with the new cable standards supposedly coming into play this year(people can use a generic box and then rent a cable card from the cable company), I would love to see it accept the cable card and then could theoretically be my only box next to my flat screen TV minus any sound system of course. That would be one very nice looking setup. Keeping my fingers crossed.

The AppleTV is very good as is but it would be nice if you could plug in an external HD. Who cares about internal storage space when the USB2 port makes available space practically unlimited and easily upgradeable. I stream 95% of my content anyway because I want content in a central location that’s easily accessible to my other Mac, my iPods, etc…. 2 things that need to be fixed (and I believe soon will be), I need to stream my photos (my photo library is almost 100GB), and iTunes needs HD content and rentals!! I don’t care about a PVR, I have 2 HD PVR’s that were provided free from my cable company. The power of Apple products are their amazing ease of use. No need to clutter up an otherwise powerful and simple device. I love my AppleTV!

Though it may be the case that Apple plans to release other models of the Apple TV lets remember that Apple treats this product as a mac, as it treats the iPhone as part of the iPod line. Hence the a-la-multi-model page.

No DVR/PVR! it seems to be a trend everyone wants for free…no subscription fee, the ability to fast forward live television, set recordings.. but for AppleTv is this truely ideal? Look at its purpose, it is solely based as a transitional body between both your iTunes content and your TV. If you want something more, you’re left to rely on xBox’s, Tivo’s, Slingbox’s or full Media Pc’s hooked up to your TV’s… do you really want external drives to your AppleTv? Wouldn’t that ruin your form factor, you end up worrying about keeping them on all the time, plugged in, having to lug around an extra device, it seems odd and only a temporary fix. You wouldn’t want to ruin its form factor, thats one thing that makes it so great, its size.

The only probably (to me at least) fixes or additions for AppleTv would be simpler, more software based issues. for example RSS for your sites, Widgets, simple tools that would be great if accessed from your tv… be able to sync to GoogleReader or Newsfire, check the weather real quick, play Soduki somehow with your remote through the widget interface… maybe even a Mail RSS feed to check up your latest emails, but that seems a stretch as you probably can’t reply on the spot… but a calender feature just as you have on your iPod, iPod games etc… while a bigger hard drive would be nice, the ability to stream my content completely should rid that, i can build off of my existing drives, maybe if i want that external i can add it to my iMac or something, and have iTunes content saved to it and streaming from it.

I think as tech grows, and IPTV becomes more and more a reality, that transition will focus more away from Tivo-like controls to more on demand content. To have the ability to choose what you want, when you want would be a lot simpler and cheaper. Now if the major tv industries would just help us out a bit more, and free up content that is already “free” for our use, we could develop greater ways to stream “Live TV”, maybe even if Google developed a TV suite that would store shows, and we can stream them on demand with a few ads to make everybody happy. We all want our music, and our videos forever, why should we be the ones to store it?

At most the AppleTV’s ownly modification would be a larger hdd, there is already support for 5.1, 720p is just fine when you are thinking about move content on hdd and not a disc high def content is not small and better the quality the more space you have to find to store it, i will never come with a dvd, blu ray or hd dvd drive or dvr funtions because it has one purpose move ipod not itunes content to you widescreen tv it dont need even enhanded def either, just the right cables. If you want a blu ray, hd dvd playing every format supporting, 500gb hdd configureable computer your out of luck

Since this is a wishlist, I guess this is what I want:

Them to upgrade Front Row on the Mac mini so I don’t have to get an AppleTV. There is really no point to a higher end AppleTV if they do this. (or someone to pull it out of an AppleTV and replace Front Row…)

A lower end one would make some sort of sense, but I imagine that it would not be video and would basically replace the Airport Express (i.e. add a remote control).

I would honestly rather see a Sonos-style remote more than anything at this point. Maybe the iPhone will be it, but I am not buying one until they are 3G, so that is out for now….

This is no prove at all. The Mac Pro has the same page layout, and only has one “model” and after you select it, a lot of options.

The observations of erikso really reinforced the rumor that a new model will be released, and a lot of people are excited at the prospect of getting a better Apple TV. We are hoping that Apple will release a black 120 GB or even a 200 GB model, the current 40 GB is just too small. We wrote an article on this which you can find at: http://www.qj.net/More-versions-of-Apple-TV-to-be-released-/pg/49/aid/88586

The iPod shuffles started with only one model on the “Select your iPod shuffle” screen and now theres all the colors.

Maybe another hint????

I would like to see the following in a new product.

* 2 TB hard drive space
* 2 HD / analog tuners
* 1 satellite tuners
* IPTV via satellite
* 1080p
* TIVO capabilities – the one and only PVR software.
* Liquid and/or fan cooled. My existing unit will melt any day now.
* HD-DVD and/or Blu-Ray when someone can decide on the standards. LOL
* I should be able to connect my iPod to synchronize, if I so desire.
* Work with some of the podcasters to produce high resolution podcasts. I wouldn’t mind advertisements or paying for good quality content from some of them.
* Must give 95% trade-in on my original AppleTV.
* HD Movie Trailer podcast. The quality AppleTV movie trailers leave a lot to be desired.

Traitor, XP would just make it any other windows machine,if you want, just plug a PC into your TV

I think it would be nice if there was a larger internal HD for sure, and yes it woul dbe nice to attatch an external HD to the actual unit itself. If you don’t like the form factor idea of that maybe you should get a nice lookin External HD. But streaming 720p + off a USB HD is rediculous, there is no way the data will stream fast enough.

It would be excellent if they put a DVD player in it, even if it discourages purchasing movies from the iTunes store (still only available in the US). If one unit could replace all my purchased media, i would buy one in a second – Especially if you could instert a DVD, rip it at some kinda of setting (good, best and better) and it be added to a selected iTunes library.

Good luck with the 2TB of HD space, that won’t happen, there is something called price point that they want to stick with.

The Apple TV now is an excellent start, but it has rediculous potential which I’m sure apple realizes.

As for running windows on an Apple TV? why would you want to dsiplay something so ugly so big?

What we really want is two products not one.

First, The AppleTV is the bridge for media I/O.
As such – diverse capabilities in and out will be warranted.

OUT—I want at least 1080p w/ 5.1 sound—HDMI and optical output.
Others will want SD quality with RCA jacks @ a lower price point.

IN—Dual HD Tuner (Tivo!!!)

Second, we desperately need the Xserve Mini! Coupled with the Xserve hardware (think beefy mac mini form factor not the rack mount form factor) will be the server version of iLife. I want my wife to be able to upload photos, movies, whatever to the central server which has massive, redundant and effortlessly expandable disk space and then I can easily put some of those photos, movies, or whatever onto my laptop too; and vice versa. All of this media, of course, is also available to the appleTV as well; it is just another I/O point just like our laptops but its UI is specialized for the TV and our beloved peanut shaped remote.

Digital Nirvana!

1. ability to buy content online
2. DVD or blu ray or HD DVD(as Casi mentioned but i think ripping it is illegal somehow)
3. mini games
4. web browser
5. widgets
6. ipod dock and sync

…wait why dont i just buy a mac?

Also at the bottom of the page for buying Apple TV under what you need it says in the small print ” (1) Actual weight varies by configuration and manufacturing process”. Varies by configuration. But you can’t configure it……..

I would certainly like to add a much larger harddisk to the AppleTV, something absolutely necessary especially for HD content which as we all know takes up an awful lotta space, or if you want to store many ripped (legally owned!) DVDs on it (very practical indeed if you want to take it with you somewhere else e.g. while on a weekendtrip, someplace where you do not have other Macs or a WiFi network!). Furthermore, it lacks even the most basic VCR capable features (which Apple should have built in its OSX years ago…) so that you can also “tape” you favourite TV shows just as you would on your good ole VHS, albeit without any loss in quality, need to look for “empty” tapes etc. in other words: the easy “hassle free” Apple way we’ve grown so used to over the years. Wouldn’t that be great? Sure you can already do all that right now but alas not with Apple branded “out of the box” stuff which is such a shame. I’ve always had the impression Steve “Wonder” Jobs likes a lot more his music (hence the iPod successstory) but less tv or movie stuff (apart from Pixar/Disney products perhaps, you can guess why!). As it stands now, I am afraid its use is far too limited to be another “must have” hit from our beloved computer maker… Cupertino, take a look at some of those Windows Media Centers and start copying right now!

Well isn’t that why the USB is so hard to get going. So you don’t just hook up your Elgato to your hacked ATVo and your off. Apple want to keep the pie to themselves.

Well the only thing I would like to see uppgraded is the resolution (1080p PLZ), a larger HardDrive (80GB would be enough) and the possibilty to use external devices. These items should include 3rd party remotes, external Hard drives, webcams, docs to syncronize data with different iPod models (

1. Bigger HD (80GB) (120GB) (200GB) (400GB required for PVR funtions).
2. ATSC HD Tuner.
3 . PVR (H.264, MPEG4, DVCPROHD, DVCPRO20, DV)
4. 1080i / 1080P
5. OS XTV LEOPARD 5.0tv
6. FCP 6.0 video playback codecs (DVCPROHD video codec)
7. HDMI/DVI/COMPONENT/S-VIDEO/COMPOSITE INPUT.
8. WIRELESS KEYBOARD W/BUILT IN MOUSE.
9. RECORD VIDEO FROM DIRECTV, DISHNETWORK, DIGITAL CABLE.
10 APPLETV COLOR BLACK OR WHITE.
11. WALL MOUNTING BRACKETS.
12. BUY CONTENT DIRECT FROM APPLETV.
13. BUY MOVIES ENCODED ON HIGH DEFINITION.
14. FIREWIRE 400, 800 AND (SATA required for PVR funtions.
15. EXCHANGE FILES WITH OTHER APPLETV (friends and family).
16. BUILT IN ITUNES.
17. HD GAMES W/CONTROLLERS FOR APPLE/3RD PARTY.

REMEMBER, APPLE DOES NOT SELL MIGLIA PROPUCTS ON THEIR STORE, SO THIS COULD HAPPEN VERY SOON……

- High Def content
- Built in iTunes that syncs back to your mac
- SYNC TO IPHONE!
- would like to sync to my airport with connected speakers for at least music (would be tough to sync with the video I think)
- obviously the ability to add a larger HardDrive

even without all this stuff it’s a slick device as is. VERY COOL! can’t wait to see what they come out with next!

So… Here are my two cents.

1) External USB Harddrive option. Someone suggested an external HDD would spoil the design of the AppleTV. I disagree as there already are external HDD especially designed for the MacMini. EVERY AppleTV owner would order an external HDD that suits the design of this device. So: there you have a big market

2) Ability to purchase content OUTSIDE the US. This whole “US centric” Apple strategy (iPhone, AppleTV, LEOPARD DELAY) is really bugging me!

3) Higher quality content (AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US)

That’s it. I OWN an AppleTV and use it as an entertainment system. I stand in front of my computer (a Mac) the whole day. The last thing I want to do is read RSS from my couch, watch YouTube videos or surf the net. I only want: music, TV shows and movies.
That’s not that hard Steve J., is it?

4) Here we enter the realm of “faisable but impossible…”. I don’t want PVR à là TiVo: I would love an AppleTV with IPTV (there should be a reason why the device is being called “something”TV… So IPTV should be this reason)

So, my list is made of 3 items which I think are not that hard for Apple to adress and one “dream” that I think is unlikely to be made possible by Apple itself.

Rofl this is definitely a case of reading something out of nothing.

nice prediction.