Comments on: The Perfect Apple for the Living Room http://newteevee.com/2008/09/29/the-perfect-apple-for-the-living-room/ NewTeeVee Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:01:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: William Maggos http://newteevee.com/2008/09/29/the-perfect-apple-for-the-living-room/#comment-246146 William Maggos Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:29:30 +0000 http://newteevee.com/2008/09/29/the-perfect-apple-for-the-living-room/#comment-246146 <p>I don't expect Apple to do this, but my wishlist for the perfect livingroom entertainment device also includes 2 basics (on top of gaming support):</p> <ol> <li>support for media torrent RSS (like Miro does it)</li> <li>support for open video streaming (like VLC and Shoutcast TV do)</li> </ol> <p>Re: #1, if we want to lower the costs of distribution in order to promote more independent video producers, build bittorrent support into the podcatcher. Re: #2, it works just like internet radio, but for video. true internet TV.</p> <p>this combination would allow newteevee to truly give oldteevee real competition.</p> I don’t expect Apple to do this, but my wishlist for the perfect livingroom entertainment device also includes 2 basics (on top of gaming support):

  1. support for media torrent RSS (like Miro does it)
  2. support for open video streaming (like VLC and Shoutcast TV do)

Re: #1, if we want to lower the costs of distribution in order to promote more independent video producers, build bittorrent support into the podcatcher. Re: #2, it works just like internet radio, but for video. true internet TV.

this combination would allow newteevee to truly give oldteevee real competition.

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