Mac as TV replacement revisited: Apple could kill the TV but they won't






TUAW.com has an interesting conversation about the Mac as a replacement for the TV. Check it out.

I've been posting on this topic for a long time. Most recently I commented on the new 24-inch iMac as a media PC.

We've used the Mac as a replacement for the TV for years. I first started watching DVDs on my Mac almost exclusively when the first iMac DV shipped.

Today, My wife rarely watches the TV, and I generally only watch TV for live sports. Everything else we can watch on the Mac.

Between the ITMS, BitTorrent, studios serving content over the Web and Netflix, it's easy to allow the TV to collect dust. It's not unusual for the TV to be off for two or three weeks at a stretch.

Add products like the Miglia TVmini and other competing products, and going TV-free is easy.

But while the iTMS has people buzzing about the death of CDs at the hand of MP3s, Apple's not going to let that happen to the TV. It' won't because Apple's iTV is coming and from what I can tell it requires a TV to function.
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Posted: Thu - October 5, 2006 at 07:12 AM          

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