Comments on: The Apple TV http://kulturblog.com/2007/03/28/the-apple-tv/ A pop culture blog by Mormons but not about Mormonism Sat, 02 Jun 2012 05:23:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: D. Fletcher http://kulturblog.com/2007/03/28/the-apple-tv/#comment-35320 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:50:42 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2007/03/the-apple-tv/#comment-35320 I have some big problems with iDVD, but perhaps the biggest is — DVDs created with it won’t play in my Mac, the one used to create them! My little stand-alone DVD-recorder I bought to get stuff off of television works every time, and the disks work in every machine they’re put in.

I just did a very complex movie/menu project in iDVD. It took me 10 hours to create the chapters and menus, and I let it burn to disk overnight (double-layer disk).

In the morning, iDVD was still encoding, 12 hours later. It never did finish that disk, without giving me any error code or any other message of any kind.

I’ve got 2 gigs of RAM and a 500 gig hard drive and I just hate that program.

I’ll try anything else.

]]> By: Clark http://kulturblog.com/2007/03/28/the-apple-tv/#comment-35319 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:23:12 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2007/03/the-apple-tv/#comment-35319 iDVD is just too limited. (IMO) I hope they allow a lot more flexibility rather than being pigeon holed into a few templates. But DVD Pro is too complex. I think iDVD is by far the weakest of the iApps people use.

I don’t think the interface is bad though. I throw together quick family videos with it all the time.

I agree iWeb is useless though. I can’t believe they released that – although I suppose some people use it.

]]> By: jjohnsen http://kulturblog.com/2007/03/28/the-apple-tv/#comment-35318 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:32:49 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2007/03/the-apple-tv/#comment-35318 iDVD is ok, but nowhere near the level of iPhoto, iMovie or iTunes. It’s not even close to as bad as iWeb though, that’s total garbage. I agree I’d like to see them focus more on software and actual computers. The fact they changed their name from Apple Computers to just Apple is a bad sign in my opinion.

]]> By: a random John http://kulturblog.com/2007/03/28/the-apple-tv/#comment-35317 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:49:16 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2007/03/the-apple-tv/#comment-35317 I agree that iDVD is not as nice as the other iApps. Also I have a hard time figuring out the details of iMovie. Each time they release a new version the UI changes enough that doing things like putting titles in is different.

Clark, if you don’t like front row with a mini you can probably find a way to run aTV on a mini instead.

]]> By: D. Fletcher http://kulturblog.com/2007/03/28/the-apple-tv/#comment-35316 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:31:53 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2007/03/the-apple-tv/#comment-35316 Apple is letting down some of its loyal customers (read: me) with its computer software, and focussing too much on its iPod customers.

Ever try to use iDVD? It’s just very inconvenient, terribly interfaced un-unintuitive crap.

]]> By: Clark http://kulturblog.com/2007/03/28/the-apple-tv/#comment-35315 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:31:24 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2007/03/the-apple-tv/#comment-35315 Note that the Front Row with the mini is different from the aTV. (Personally I don’t like Front Row for various reasons — it’s definitely an Apple v.1.0 product)

]]> By: a random John http://kulturblog.com/2007/03/28/the-apple-tv/#comment-35314 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:53:55 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2007/03/the-apple-tv/#comment-35314 Note that the Mac Mini comes with the Front Row remote as do all Macs now with the exception of the Mac Pro towers.

D., If you need to unload your G5 tower (for cheap) let me know. :)

]]> By: jjohnsen http://kulturblog.com/2007/03/28/the-apple-tv/#comment-35313 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:15:19 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2007/03/the-apple-tv/#comment-35313 A Mac Mini with a large hard drive and a remote seems like a better fit for me.

]]> By: D. Fletcher http://kulturblog.com/2007/03/28/the-apple-tv/#comment-35312 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:30:32 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2007/03/the-apple-tv/#comment-35312 I don’t think DVDs suck on my 50″ plasma, but HD looks way, way better.

I’ve bought into HD-DVD, for now. I also get HD over cable, which looks pretty great, too.

I can certainly live without the new Apple TV. I might buy a new Mac, instead.

]]> By: clark http://kulturblog.com/2007/03/28/the-apple-tv/#comment-35311 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:47:14 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/2007/03/the-apple-tv/#comment-35311 Yeah, but by then I’m sure the 2cd gen tv would be out.

More seriously though I think I’d upgrade my Dish to the HDTV PVR before I’d get the tv. I’d probably plunk down the $200 for the XBOX HD-DVD player as well.

I’ll lay good odds though that things will be significantly different come next year. I’m just awaiting Apple releasing their next gen iMac/MacMini which I suspect will be much more compelling and likely will include a Blu-Ray player. Reportedly there is a significant revision of the iMac coming.

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