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Article: Apple TV comes up short
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- April 8, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) - Apple Inc. has graced the public with another
smooth, white, exquisitely designed gadget, this time aiming at
making it easier to play iTunes movies and songs on the living-room
TV set.
Too bad, then, that where looks really matter - in the quality of
the video on the TV screen - the $299 Apple TV comes up very short.
It's as if Apple had launched an iPod that sounded like a cassette
player.
When I tell people about the Apple TV, they usually judge it by
its name and assume that it's an actual TV set. So to clear up any
confusion, let me say right now that it's not. It's a square device
the size of a hardback book that goes in your entertainment center.
You connect it to your ...