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January 12, 2007

Xbox 360 PWNS Apple TV?

It would appear so. Apple's new Apple TV product is essentially a front end allowing you to view music, movies and whatnot downloaded from the iTunes Store. But Microsoft already lets users download HD movies and tv shows onto their Xbox 360 (in the US, at any rate) and recently announced they're building an IPTV network to allow watching on-demand and streaming TV on the 360. Apple's box can.....watch stuff off your computer.

I'll give Apple this, it already has a section set up for video podcasts, and the 360 network doesn't. But that'll surely change as more and more video podcasts become popular. And even though I'm a die-hard Apple fan, I think the 360 setup is better thought out, offers more for the money, and is just as convenient, if not more so, than Apple TV.

Still, that iPhone is awful sexy. :)

2 comment(s) so far (Post your own)

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On January 12, 2007 5:48 PM, Matthew said:

The only real problem with this is that the 360 is unbelievably loud. I have to shut mine off to watch TV! My media center system on the other hand is virtually silent, and the 360 is already nicely integrated with it too.

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On January 12, 2007 10:05 PM, Chris Burgess said:

I suddenly have this urge to buy Levitra online!

Anyway, being in Canada (well, anywhere outside the US) sucks for all these content delivery methods since we can't get any benefit from them. Until such things hit our shores, my battlecry is "who cares?"

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