iTV: Erhm, yeah. Hm. So... What? For only 299 USD, you'll be able to stream media from your Mac to your, erh, TV set. Really, let's look at this again. iTV, it seems, does *nothing* but that. And only *selected* material, too. The material that's compatible with iTunes. Either bought from the iTunes store or ripped into a format iTunes supports. So what would *I* suggest? Buy a used Mac mini. I'm sure you'll get one for the 300 bucks the iTV costs. It even looks similar. But gives you so much more. You'll be able to do *exactly* the same thing, since they also come with FrontRow and Apple remotes, so you *can* stream stuff from other Macs, but you can also just pop in DVDs, VCDs, DivX CDs etc. and watch them from the mini. You can even buy a TV tuner for the Mac mini, if you want to record stuff from time to time. Remember: iTV will instead make you want to *buy* the free TV shows. So is there *really* an argument pro the iTV - or whatever clever name it will be called once it arrives? Maybe the iPod TV or the "iTunes Xtender Express"? The *least* they should do, in my opinion, is add the AirPort functionality the AirPort Express has. I.e. it should double as a Wireless Access Point. It has the connectors for it, doesn't it. Maybe they do that and just haven't talked about it, because they wanted to emphasize the iTunes movies... - posted by Patrick Armbruster @ 16:29 [article link]