Comments on: Apple TV: 160GB Price Cut, 40GB Completely Cut

By: Shelton Bren

Shelton Bren — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:43:08 +0000

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By: Dyvim

Dyvim — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:10:16 +0000

refurbs have now been re-priced in the Apple Store: 40 GB for $149 or 160 GB for $189. I just picked up a 160 GB refurb- the price was finally right for me. I’ll enjoy it even if they release new hardware soon or kill the product.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:28:22 +0000

Still waiting for them to scrap this and toss the software in the mac mini with a Blu-Ray SuperDrive and a new i5 chip. 500gb hard drive I’ll buy one tomorrow!

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:57:37 +0000

Wish I could retweet this in context

RT "No thanks CJ, I don’t have room for a Buick in my entertainment center."

By: Green

Green — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:59:27 +0000

For $299, I can get a ps3. 120 GB, media center, bluray player, best gaming system, HD and much more. Apple tv is useless.

By: Grant

Grant — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:52:23 +0000

No thanks CJ, I don’t have room for a Buick in my entertainment center.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:40:48 +0000

Or………………Apple are working on a DVR, maybe with Freeview (free to air tv in UK) capabilities.

This might possibly the allow for TV shows to be recorded to Apple TV internal hardrive and then synced to ipod/iphone for offline viewing!

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:33:03 +0000

I have the 160GB Apple TV and use precisely 0GB. Like Grant, everything streams from my Mac, so counting USB devices, that can just grow and grow…

By: Grant

Grant — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:21:26 +0000

Another thing, people moan about the hard drive space of the Apple TV but the hard drive space doesn’t matter a lick to me, I stream everything and it works great. I think a lot of people fundamentally misunderstand the appeal of Apple TV.

By: Grant

Grant — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:20:27 +0000

I highly doubt they're killing the Apple TV, for a couple reasons:

They just released an update for the iPhone Remote and and for the Apple TV a couple months ago that enables gestures on the iPhone to control the onscreen Apple TV cursor. Hard for me to believe they'd work on such a cool update for a product that was on the verge of being axed.
The new iTunes Extras features for movies seem to be a perfect fit for a TV viewing experience, and I'd be very surprised if they didn't eventually enable the Apple TV to access that content. I think they are probably working on some sort of update - software or hardware - to bring it closer to a DVD viewing experience.

Also, people, you can watch anything you didn't buy from iTunes on Apple TV. I watch all my store-bought DVDs on it. It's called ripping. (Or if you downloaded something, it's called converting.)

By: Dyvim

Dyvim — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:19:27 +0000

This might finally get me to make a purchase. I’ve wanted one of these for a while, but thought 40 GB was too small, but 160 GB was too expensive. I’m going to see if the refurbed 160 units get down to $199 and I might pull the trigger. I’d rather do movie rentals through iTunes than my cable company anyway (same price but better experience via AppleTV).

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:56:16 +0000

the apple tv doesnt need a hardware update, it needs more hard drive space but all it does is play itunes content and its not slow at that, only reason for hardware update would be for games

By: macboy15

macboy15 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:54:09 +0000

FBI is knocking at your door CJ lol