What are people saying about the Apple TV?

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Engadget In-Depth Review - 4/4/07
"For users who don't want to concern themselves with media library management, disparate home media serving and libraries, and the more complex bits about digital media in your home theater, there simply isn't an easier, more enjoyable way to get content from your computer to your HDTV."


Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal
"...we can easily recommend it for people who are yearning for a simple way to show on their big TVs all that stuff trapped on their computers."




David Pogue, New York Times
"Apple, on the other hand, is going for everybody else, random people included (at least those with HDTV sets). And that, perhaps, is Apple TV’s real significance. To paraphrase the old Macintosh advertisement, it’s a computer-to-TV bridge for the rest of us."




PC Magazine
"Moving the functionality of the iPod onto widescreen TV is a great idea. The fact that it works, even better. Still, it's disappointing to not be able to play some video content on Apple TV that I can play in iTunes."

BusinessWeek
"For now, there's too little content available to make the box worthwhile"

Macworld
"But I also see enough hints of what the Apple TV might do that I can’t help wanting more."


MP3 Newswire.net
"But it's a new market with leeway for experimentation. If the experiment is a success Apple TV becomes the next Tivo. But it hasn't succeeded yet."

Apple Gazette
"I think I can safely say that this is the future of television entertainment…but iTunes isn’t quite there yet with the necessary content to make this a must have."

iLounge
A very in-depth review. "B: Recommended"

MacRumors
"The Apple TV is good, but not great, and suffers from a few flaws that prevent me from giving it a glowing endorsement. It does a good job of getting content from iTunes and iPhoto onto a widescreen TV, but some loose ends end up preventing the product from shining."

Engadget
A comparison between Apple TV and TiVo: "[Apple TV's] polish, synchronization architecture, content availability and integration with iTunes make it one of the strongest efforts to bridge PC-based media to the television, but it can't yet displace a product optimized to manage the TV shows to which you already have access."

Digitmag.co.uk
"The first media streaming device I could imagine recommending to a non-geek. And I wouldn't be surprised if it evolves into something even more powerful."

iLounge
Top 10 reasons why you don't need Apple TV (yet)

ZDNet
Article describing the challenges Apple will face in the media extender space.

Information Week
Apple TV Projected to Surpass TiVo and Netflix