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March 24, 2007 at 8:59 am)
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Got this email from Apple announcing and pitching Apple TV.
We all know Jobs is a good great salesman, this pitch is well in line…i’m not saying i’d buy it…just saying even this email pitch has Apple’s signature packaging…
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Your computer is the center of your digital life. Your TV is the center of your entertainment life. But what if you want to watch movies, TV shows, movie trailers, podcasts and photos from your computer on your TV? At $299, Apple TV brings iTunes to the big screen.
Enjoy your iTunes library — movies, TV shows, music and podcasts — plus movie trailers from Apple.com on your TV. And your digital photos from iPhoto on a Mac or Adobe Photoshop Elements or Adobe Album on a Windows PC appear in high definition, so you can put on a stunning big-screen slideshow.
With QuickTime 7 Pro and Apple TV, you can easily enjoy your home movies on your TV. QuickTime 7 Pro allows you to export any file playable in QuickTime to a format optimized for Apple TV. You can even export 720p content from most high-definition sources.*
Change the way you watch digital media. Learn more about Apple TV, now shipping.
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March 24, 2007 at 4:50 am)
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March 24, 2007 at 4:27 am)
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Simple math.
Quality of Video is directly proportionate to volume of Streams.
TV Programming is high quality. (NBC + News Corp produce adequate content globally to keep every demographic entertained)
Y! + MSN + AOL = Huge Captive Audience (30% of online video is viewed on Y! alone)
Y! (and the others) have a lot of respect for rights & IP …
UGC quality still lags commercially produced content. (I illustrated this point in my post titled….the funniest phone review EVER)
A certain portion of the USD 1.65BN bid for youtube was premium to prevent the competition from getting their hands on a portion of it… a huge portion of this was for audience (since google video had poor adoption)
So Gootube now has a USD 1BN Viacom lawsuit to deal with (obviously factored in during acquisition), NBC + NewsCorp + Y! + MSN + AOL, Joost, Apple TV (will eventually converge), Grouper and the rest of the long tail of online video.
Excess pride in a nascent, evolutionary and shifting mediascape is dangerous.
I must add…all views on my blog are mine alone….i am not a spokesperson for any of the companies listed above…and as much as i’d like to believe i know enough, there’s still a long long long way to go 
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