07.17.07 - 01:43pm
Any company that’s always in the limelight and is making a huge success of there business is also always making a lot of enemies and getting sued constantly.
Apple is no exception and thus another lawsuit has been filed against the legendary company this time for an image used in
iPhone and Apple TV ads, reportedly taken from a Colorado photographer.
In the lawsuit Louis Psihoyos said that Apple uses images of a silhouetted person sitting in a chair surrounded by banks of television screens “nearly identical or substantially similar to the plaintiff’s copyrighted image”.
He says that Apple spoke with him over a licensing deal for the image, but they weren’t able to agree on terms and then Apple used a “nearly identical” image.
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06.11.07 - 10:42am
Although Apple has of course refused to comment, word has leaked out from the Financial Times, about a possible iTunes/Hollywood deal that would expand iTunes movies to not just downloads for buy but downloads for rent.
The word is that the Apple is in late talks with the Hollywood execs to allow their movies to be purchased through Apple’s iTunes as a month long rental for $2.99. The films could be copied from the computer onto one other device such as the iPod or the iPhone and would allow play for 30 days.
It would be a big boost for the lagging Apple TV and also a big boost for the iTunes movie department which so far has only been able to sign with Disney and Paramount.
The deal would launch Apple into competition with cable and satellite television operators and anyone else offering video on demand in the home.
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05.31.07 - 04:34pm
Now you can YouTube without getting up off your couch as Apple TV, come mid-June, will wirelessly stream directly from the viral-video site to your TV via a software update.
“This is the first time users can easily browse, find and watch YouTube videos right from their living room couch, and it’s really, really fun,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive. “YouTube is a worldwide sensation, and Apple TV is bringing it directly from the Internet onto the widescreen TV.”
YouTube users can sit, relax, kick their feet up and sign into their account via Apple TV and then simply search for specific videos using the Apple TV interface.
If you are among the first to log onto the new Apple TV/You Tube don’t freak out when you can’t find your favorite video, at first there will only be thousands of the most popular, with the entire site becoming available in the fall. Each week thousands more videos will be added.
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03.23.07 - 11:02am
Appe TV is being touted as the iPod for TV as it builds a bridge between the TV and the computer. To put in
metaphorical terms, until Apple TV there have only been rope bridges that are hard to walk on and rickety at best - Apple has built a bridge that is made of tough cement and is strong and easy to cross.
Apple TV offers state-of-the-art 802.11n wireless networking and maintains backwords compatibility with older Wi-Fi and wired networks. Basically streaming from the PC to the TV is extremely smooth and effortless.
However there are some drawbacks - the major one being you can not just upload any video from your computer through your TV to Apple TV - similar to the iPod it only streams iTunes content and at the moment there is not a large amount of video available on iTunes with only Disney offering new movies. Also while capable of HD their is no HD content on the iTunes store, yet, so the video doesn’t look that great on the big screen. Also you must have a new wide-screen TV if you are going to purchase this product. Apple TV won’t connect to older non-wide-screen TV’s. No A/V cables are included as well as no internet radio support.
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03.19.07 - 10:34am
With the launch of Apple TV, Jonathan Hoopes a Think Equity analyst has upped his “Buy” rating on apple to $120.
Hoopes writes ” ‘We think the Apple TV/iTunes combination could become as disruptive to legacy video purchase-and-consumption behaviour as the iPod/iTunes combination has been to the traditional music business model.”
Basically the analyst believes that combined with iTunes Apple TV is set to change the way the way the consumer watches DVD’s. After all why rent them when they are now becoming so simple to store and download movies as well as recording TV shows.
The device is, “an ideal conduit for multiple services including DVR, paid-for content (such as video-on-demand), gaming, or advertising,” he writes, adding, “we identify and value these business opportunities at $5.3-$11.4 billion.”
Hoopes expects the device to add at least $10 per share in gains for the company.
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