AppleTV 3.0 update coming soon with iTunesLP

Seth Weintraub
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October 29, 2009
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Today's new EULA for iTunes throws up a pretty obvious clue that an AppleTV 3.0 update is coming up - perhaps in a matter of days.  The neglected hobby of Apple's isn't dead yet folks.  Besides iTunesLP, is there any possibility of something useful like Hulu or Netflix showing up on there?  Will it be enough to convince people to update and remove Boxee?  We'll find out soon enough.

 

Comments (14)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 29, 2009 - 7:32am

Let's hope it coincides with movies in the iTunes Store all over Europe!

Sylvester Malus (not verified) | October 29, 2009 - 10:32am

Or iTunes LP for that matter!

AppleTV_FAN (not verified) | October 29, 2009 - 8:13am

I second that

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 29, 2009 - 8:34am

Any guesses as to when we might see the next Apple TV hardware refresh?

Gazoobee (not verified) | October 29, 2009 - 8:54am

I'll flame you instead for being parochial.

Boxee is a US only solution. Most top tech blogs like this one have about 40% of their readership drawn from countries *outside* of the US.

So when you post stories like this that assume everyone is in the US you throw a middle finger at a large part of your readership.

Just sayin ;)

Mr Lizard (not verified) | October 29, 2009 - 11:42am

I'm in the UK and use Boxee so I can access BBC iPlayer on my TV.

sino (not verified) | October 29, 2009 - 9:02am

january

Gazoobee (not verified) | October 29, 2009 - 9:04am

why don't you guys get a real comment system. I comment on article A and it shows up on article B??? WTF?

my comment about flames above was obviously for the article about Boxee.

Sylvester Malus (not verified) | October 29, 2009 - 10:30am

That said, it was something that I thought ;-)

MacDust (not verified) | October 29, 2009 - 9:55am

The perfect AppleTV would be adding a DVR with a cable/satellite tuner. Add Netflix and an option for blue-ray drive. If I had to chose one of these as a possibility it would be the Netflix addition. Tivo has it, XBox has it, and PS3 will have it. Its the only one that makes the most sense.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 29, 2009 - 11:42am

Apple won't go with netflix for 2 reasons
1- They have their own rental system
2- Netflix uses wma encoding, no H264.

Anyway, the only real missing feature with the Apple TV is a browser from y point of vue.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 29, 2009 - 10:20am

To quote Henry Ford: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

Everyone asking for DVRs and Blu-ray drives simply doesn't get it. You don't understand the point of an Apple TV, or where the industry is heading. Frankly, you're asking for faster horses.

Thanks, but I'll take a car instead.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 29, 2009 - 11:18am

Only for tech geeks that live of a big fat broadband pipe in a major city.

For everyone else, optical media will be around a lot longer.

Fertility Vitamins (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 9:07am

Wow, this on a day when LifeHacker has an awesome article on setting up an XMBC htpc on the cheap.... Come ON Apple... you have the chance to make something kick ASS and you don't have the balls to do it? This is saaaaad