Apple TV comes to Canada (yawn)
p2pnet news | TV:- Hooray hooray. Apple TV is coming to Canada.
The company wants to rip Canadians off with a half-vast smattering of TV shows to be delivered via iTunes for $2.
Full seasons range from about $10–$30,” continues Torontoist.
“Most of the shows currently available are for domestic productions, like CTV’s Degrassi: The Next Generation and the CBC series Little Mosque on the Prairie, but non-Canadian shows, like South Park and The Hills have also shown up,” says the story.
Torontoist also notes content from CanWest’s Global, E!, and TVtropolis networks is “conspicuously absent”.
Global, CTV, and CBC already offer free, ad-supported shows online, “to varying levels of quality and success,” it says.
Meanwhile, “NBC Universal and SanDisk say they’re collaborating on TakeTV, a web video player which can be used to hook computers up to TV sets,” p2pnet posted yesterday,l adding:
“At $100 for a four gig version and $150 for eight gigs, it makes Apple TV’s entry-level $300 look silly.”
Also See:
Torontoist – This Apple Has 22 Shows, December 12, 2007
p2pnet – NBC U, SanDisk Take TV – with DRM, December 11, 2007
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December 12th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Hurray…. Another half baked crappy Apple Product..
I think its time for consumers to stop buying Apple crap.
December 12th, 2007 at 11:11 am
“At $100 for a four gig version and $150 for eight gigs, it makes Apple TV’s entry-level $300 look silly.”
Yeah, right. Don’t mention the storage capacity of the Apple TV, or otherwise the prices of YOUR devices will look silly.
The 300$ Apple TV has 40GB of storage, five times as much as their 150$ unit, and ten times as much as their 100$ unit.
Who looks silly now?
P.S.: 2$ for each episode of a TV show is too much, they should be 99 cents too.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
“Who looks silly now?”
Me (blush)
Cheers!
December 12th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Have you ever been to Canada? They Tax the shit out of everything.
Are you sure that there is not some sort of tax involved in this?
“Hurray…. Another half baked crappy Apple Product..
I think its time for consumers to stop buying Apple crap.”
Another MS waterboy trying to tell everyone he actually understands the term mediocrity.
Without any knowledge to back up his/her statement.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/12/12/should-apple-tv-copy-tivo-and-media-center/
What other products are half baked waterboy?