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Petition for Front Row on all Macs

frontrowHow bad do you want Front Row, the application that turns an iMac into a Media Center Mac, on all your other Macs? Right now, you can buy an Apple Remote, a new Universal Dock— but no Front Row? Well one guy isn't taking this lying down. Nathan Sharp has used PetitionOnline.com to create the Front Row Software Request Petition. A gentle request by over 1,000 (so far) Macheads to Apple, asking them to release Front Row into the wild. No specification as to free, paid, etc.

The question is, how much would you pay? Apple is, after all, a hardware company. Should Front Row come bundled with the Remote? What about if you buy the remote and the dock you get it free? Otherwise, maybe $19.99? Personally, I think Apple should release it as a free download to .Mac users, just because I roll like that (and have a .mac account).
 

How bad do you want Front Row, the application that turns an iMac into a Media Center Mac, on all your other Macs? Right now, you can buy...
 

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Cello

Assuming you have Frontrow installed on an iMac G5 (obviously not the latest model), could you control Frontrow by buying the Universal dock which includes the IR receiver?

October 15 2005 at 1:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark

i did my part and signed the petition! i REALLY want FrontRow!

October 15 2005 at 9:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Neil Cochrane

Front Row will be available to most computers come iLife 06 - let's face it, this is the best way to sell movies when that comes alone sometime in the future.

October 15 2005 at 5:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LD

You were confused because of the horrible fact-checking of Weblogs, Inc.

October 15 2005 at 3:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mars

IR it is then... I don't know where I got confused, but apparently I wasn't the only one http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000633063054/

October 15 2005 at 12:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
superpixel

There is indeed confusion on this. So far no kb articles have appeared. There's this: http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=MA128G/A Which is the only "product" page I can find. It says the remote is compatible with any Apple product introduced in 2005 with IR. Which would be the universal dock, and the iMac??? Yeah, I heard BT repeatedly as well, but I suppose the iMac could have IR in iSight. But the iMac specs show no sign of IR. Perhaps it does both? That'd be cool. I'll look into it.

October 15 2005 at 12:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Aaron

The remote is IR only. I am 100% positive.

October 15 2005 at 12:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mars

Actually it appears that the standalone remote being sold at the apple store is IR, but everything I've read about the remote bundled with the iMac says that it's bluetooth (nothing on apple.com seems to specify, though).... hmmm, are they indeed two different remotes?

October 14 2005 at 11:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Aaron

Please don't spread misinformation. The remote is IR, not Bluetooth.

October 14 2005 at 11:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
KTR3

Why would they bother using IR if its a bluetooth device?? Is there confirmation?

October 14 2005 at 11:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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