AppleTV 3.0 update coming soon with iTunesLP

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 7:23am — Seth Weintraub

Today's new EULA for iTunes throws up a pretty obvious clue that an AppleTV 3.0 update is coming up - perhaps in a matter of days. The neglected hobby of Apple's isn't dead yet folks. Besides iTunesLP, is there any possibility of something useful like Hulu or Netflix showing up on there? Will it be enough to convince people to update and remove Boxee? We'll find out soon enough.

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Comments

Well..

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 7:32am — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

Let's hope it coincides with movies in the iTunes Store all over Europe!

Or iTunes LP for that

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:32am — Sylvester Malus (not verified)

Or iTunes LP for that matter!

Movies in iTunes for Europe

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 8:13am — AppleTV_FAN (not verified)

I second that

ATV hardware upgrade

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 8:34am — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

Any guesses as to when we might see the next Apple TV hardware refresh?

flames

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 8:54am — Gazoobee (not verified)

I'll flame you instead for being parochial.

Boxee is a US only solution. Most top tech blogs like this one have about 40% of their readership drawn from countries *outside* of the US.

So when you post stories like this that assume everyone is in the US you throw a middle finger at a large part of your readership.

Just sayin ;)

I'm in the UK and use Boxee

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 11:42am — Mr Lizard (not verified)

I'm in the UK and use Boxee so I can access BBC iPlayer on my TV.

january

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 9:02am — sino (not verified)

january

comments system

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 9:04am — Gazoobee (not verified)

why don't you guys get a real comment system. I comment on article A and it shows up on article B??? WTF?

my comment about flames above was obviously for the article about Boxee.

That said, it was something

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:30am — Sylvester Malus (not verified)

That said, it was something that I thought ;-)

Netflix coming

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 9:55am — MacDust (not verified)

The perfect AppleTV would be adding a DVR with a cable/satellite tuner. Add Netflix and an option for blue-ray drive. If I had to chose one of these as a possibility it would be the Netflix addition. Tivo has it, XBox has it, and PS3 will have it. Its the only one that makes the most sense.

No netflix for sure

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 11:42am — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

Apple won't go with netflix for 2 reasons
1- They have their own rental system
2- Netflix uses wma encoding, no H264.

Anyway, the only real missing feature with the Apple TV is a browser from y point of vue.

Please - enough with the faster horses

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:20am — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

To quote Henry Ford: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

Everyone asking for DVRs and Blu-ray drives simply doesn't get it. You don't understand the point of an Apple TV, or where the industry is heading. Frankly, you're asking for faster horses.

Thanks, but I'll take a car instead.

Only for tech geeks that live

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 11:18am — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

Only for tech geeks that live of a big fat broadband pipe in a major city.

For everyone else, optical media will be around a lot longer.

Wow, this on a day when

Fri, 10/30/2009 - 9:07am — Fertility Vitamins (not verified)

Wow, this on a day when LifeHacker has an awesome article on setting up an XMBC htpc on the cheap.... Come ON Apple... you have the chance to make something kick ASS and you don't have the balls to do it? This is saaaaad