Friends Kingdom: Re: [iPad] Everything we know so far about the Apple Car September 30

One STB is nice, but switching HDMI inputs is just a button tap.

On Oct 3, 2015, at 4:21 AM, Tony tdale@xtra.co.nz [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Here in NZ, Roku isn't sold, although some import one. The issue here, that the devices with apps, such as ATV, WDTV, etc, are not useful, as they are geoblocked to the US. The content is hence, American content. YouTube we can use, maybe a few free others.

Netflix only arrived here last March. We had Quickflix, a local, small SVOD. We now have Neon, which covers base programming from Sky our pay tv operator. We have Lightbox, run by my telco, that I work for, its a TV SVOD.

ATV has none of our SVOD services, but it will soon, so that gives us parity, and a one set top box option, rather gracing to use laptop HDMI'ed to TV, Airplay from an iPad, or a Playstation.

Having said that, geeks can access anything, we can use geo unblocker software such as UnBlock-US, Unotelly to appear as we are in the US.Then you make have to muck around funding a US address, or US credit card.

Now I believe that the same lack of content is the same in many countries, the content is there locally but not on the ATV, so I can see it being quite big deal. Even us geeks, prefer a one STB life!

From: "David Smith david.smith.14916@gmail.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
To: iPad@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, 3 October 2015 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [iPad] Everything we know so far about the Apple Car September 30

The existing Apple TV is just one in a small crowd of similar streamers here, Tony - it competes with Roku, Google, Amazon, TiVo, and maybe three others. It doesn't sound as though the new model is radically improved. I'll buy the new one, but I also have a Roku and an Amazon and will buy the new Google. They're all capable and all inexpensive. What costs real money is the services - movies, TV series, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, sports, and so forth. Streaming is still in its infancy. Apple won't get much richer selling Apple TVs.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-streaming-players,review-2140.html

On Oct 2, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Tony tdale@xtra.co.nz [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

The new ATV is a more featured device, and for those of us outside the US its huge. It has more storage, faster, etc. And off course its way expensive...... sarcasm intended. I will need to save to cover that 50-100% extra cost...... 100% is a big number, a hundred bucks or whatever the increase is, isn't.

I'd pay triple, thats the value to me, which admittedly is that I am not in the US. Even then its cheap, dollar wise and it has value

From: "Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
To: iPad@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, 3 October 2015 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [iPad] Everything we know so far about the Apple Car September 30

> They just RAISED their price on Apple TV to 50-100% more than the competition, and they'll get it. They don't bow to consumers, consumers bow to Apple. Its completely wrong, but Apple holds the secret, they always have, and they always will.

What secret?

Use quality components, be really picky about design features, execute fit-and-finish well, and provide 1st-quality customer service.

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