iTelevision - Apple Is Working On A Television For 2012

[rajanmehta 4,056]

iTelevision - Apple is working on a television for 2012

Source: http://venturebeat.c...elevision-2012/

Apple is almost certainly working on a digital television based on its iOS operating system, according to multiple sources in Silicon Valley.

An Apple-based television makes sense in light of Apple’s continued expansion out of the computer industry into the larger consumer electronics market. But is it real?

Multiple reports, as well as sources interviewed by VentureBeat, support the rumor, which is widespread among the gadget industry.

• Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, a longtime Apple analyst, predicts that Apple will produce a television in late 2012 or early 2013. In an interview with VentureBeat, Munster cited multiple sources, including component suppliers as well as an internal Apple source, to back up his theory. Munster predicts this will be an actual TV, not just a set-top box, and most likely running a version of iOS. (Note: Munster made a similar claim in 2009, except then he said that Apple would have a TV by 2011. He now says “I think the probability is almost zero that it will be this year.”)
  
• Venture capitalist Stewart Alsop, of Alsop Louie ventures, lent credence to the “iTelevision” theory in an interview with VentureBeat. Alsop sits on the boards of TiVo and Sonos, follows the hardware industry closely, and says he has heard from multiple sources throughout Silicon Valley that the Apple television project is underway.
  
• The Wall Street Journal mentioned that Apple is “working on new technology to deliver video to televisions, and has been discussing whether to try to launch a subscription TV service,” according to “sources familiar with the matter.” That’s typically code for an inside source.
  
• And Cult of Mac notes that the time may be ripe for Apple to make a television, as high-end TVs have started to dip below the $1,000 price threshold.
  
• Even former Apple CEO Steve Jobs turned the wheels of the rumor mill in 2010, saying that it made sense for Apple to integrate its technology into television sets.
  

Apple has been testing the waters with its AppleTV, a set-top box that provides access to movies and TV from iTunes as well as other online video content. The company has a number of partnerships with movie studios and television networks, giving it an impressive content library.

And its lightweight iOS operating system seems ideally suited for consumer devices (the OS is already under the hood in AppleTV).

Alsop figures the only thing holding Apple back is the cost of LCD screens, which has been a limiting factor in all of Apple’s iOS products since 2007.

The company

initially planned to make a tablet

when it started planning a touchscreen-centric computer in the mid-2000s. But, Alsop says, the cost of the display was prohibitively expensive, so Apple instead focused on applying the technology to a device with a smaller, cheaper LCD: The iPhone.

The

price of LCD panels has droped fairly steadily

, thanks to increased manufacturing efficiency, so eventually quality screens became cheap enough to make the 9.7-inch iPad economically feasible.

It won’t be long, Alsop predicts, before 15-inch or 19-inch touchscreen televisions running iOS hit the scene, probably in time for the 2012 holiday season. That’s big enough to be a serviceable TV for the kitchen, bedroom or dorm room.

More importantly, iOS will enable Apple to transform the television into something that doesn’t just show videos, but also plays games, runs apps, lets you check your schedule and tweet about what YouTube movie you happen to watching at that moment.

And it could tie seamlessly into other Apple devices, like the iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air, giving the company an enviable full-circle consumer product line.

“You look at TVs in Best Buy and they’re the same damn things that they’ve been building for 30, 40, 50 years,” said Alsop. Although the display technology has changed and the screens are flat and high-resolution now instead of huge, low-res cathode screens, the fundamental act of watching TV is pretty much the same: Sit back and flip the channels.

“Apple will do to television manufacturers what it did to phone makers with the iPhone,”

Alsop said.

[@mitJ@in 256]

Now TV too.... We hate Apple Products.

[digitalnirvana 646]

Good they did not get iTV name.

[ssr 10]

good, at-least this will drive the innovation in this field.

If Google fixes their current issues with GoogleTV then they will be the only big competitor 4 apple.

Any one waiting for UltraHD .

Edited August 29, 2011 by ssr

[tanveer 59]

So you will have to download/ stream content from app store in order to play on this tv?

[rajanmehta 4,056]

Apple HDTV To Possibly Come in 3 Sizes Featuring A6 Processors

Source

Since August, rumour mills have been abuzz about Apple preparing to launch a HDTV, and since then various analysts have stated that a Siri-enabled TV was in the works. Apart from this, Piper Jaffray analyst, Gene Munster gave a possible time frame as to when this Siri-enabled HDTV from Apple would be launched, which is by the end of 2012. Adding fuel to these rumours, a report by SmartHouse states that anonymous sources have informed them that a major company is apparently working on the production of HDTVs in three sizes ranging from 32-inches to 55-inches.

The same sources went on to say that these TVs would feature an A6 processor, which are possibly the same ones that maybe used on the next generation iPads. Previous reports of this television indicate that the upcoming TV from Apple would be Siri-enabled keeping with Steve Jobs's statement in the biography written by Walter Isaacson where he says that he’d like to create a television that is completely easy to use and could be easily synced with other devices along with iCloud.

According to a related report by the Business Insider, Gene Munster has estimated that the said television would be quite pricey and stated that if a television costs USD 800, an Apple television would be priced twice as much at USD 1,600. AS of now, we have to just wait and see how these rumours pan out come end of 2012.

[gargoyle 15]

More details on this can be availed from the following link. Love or hate Apple, they always manage to "surprise" the customer. I guess Steven Paul Jobs is still alive in the product pipeline.

http://www.apple.com/appletv/

[Guru Gopal 589]

I have purchased used Original ATV 160 GB (1st Gen). It contains beautiful HD Movies synced with seller iTunes account (I do not access to that account) I am able to play those things. I want to know how to transfer the movies to my hard disk. Can any body suggest how to do it.

[rkburra 1]

All apple products data transfer is managed through itunes.

I think process for this product is also similar to all othe apple products.