Moving Walkway

My Apple TV is in the mail. Should have it Friday.

The world has not been waiting on pins and needles for Apple TV. Many people are disappointed on what it will deliver. I’m not in that camp. I ordered one the day they were announced. I don’t buy everything new from Apple, but this delivers what I need.

I have a 42″ plasma in my family room, but no big stereo on the main floor (or anywhere in the house for that matter. When we have parties or people over, the best we can do for music is to use a small Sony CD player/speaker system we’ve had for years. It does fine, but I always burn a CD and it plays the same 70 minutes of music all night. Believe it or not, people actually say “haven’t we heard this before.”

So what does Apple TV give me?

• Method of playing music on my TV (which sounds pretty good). All my music is on a Mac Mini in the basement.
• Way to play video podcasts on the big TV
• Have music video versions of some of our music to be mixed with regular music. I’ve been paying $2 for a music video that comes with the song, or getting “bonus videos” with some songs.
• Alternative way to watch TiVO programs from the basement TiVo on the big screen (using either Tivo2Go after a crippled low res conversion, or TiVoDecode
• Watch movie trailers on the big screen so Eileen knows what to add to the Netflix queue

Some people complain about it not being 1080i (or p). This doesn’t bother me since my TV is only in the 720p range.

Other things I wish I could do with my Apple TV (even thought I don’t have it yet)…

• Watch Netflix “watch now” movies
• Stream DVDs from my Mac Mini

[tags]apple+tv, netflix, music[/tags]