AOL's In2TV not for Mac

Surely it should be PCs rather than just "Macs" that you are concerned with, PCs run a variety of modern OS's. AOL should take a modern approach which allows In2TV to support all modern OS, "Macs" included.

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can't say as i'm real upset about it. the shows i 'want' to watch, are all in itunes. however, i dont really watch much of those either.

any wagers on how long it takes before a script kiddie finds something to exploit on it? it is, after all, aol.

It is a beta, fer crysakes. Starting the 11th, subscribers could download to local disk 440mb WMV files which could be viewed in AOL's player built atop Windows Media Player 10; files expire June 1. The player goes online only to get the DRM license. The player doesn't even permit real full screen or pan and scan. But 43 min episodes took only a half hour to download and were only slightly poorer than 350 mb XviD quality.

Call me a cynic but I wonder if Microsoft is funding this thus the Windows XP only thing.

I know that MSFT is funding/sponsoring a broadband trial for providing cable, phone and data service to the home in Germany (T-Home Speed). Hence my cynicism regarding AOL's offering.

Oh please! As if any of you really wants to watch streaming tv on your Mac! If they'd made it, you'd all be complaining that it wasn't full screen, DVD-quality video and that you couldn't burn the shows to DVD.

You know perfectly well what the format is: DRM'ed Windows Media. There is no way to play that on a Mac. If you want to complain about something, complain about that. Look at the system requirements if you have any doubts:

"Media Player: Windows Media Player version 10.0"

That's why there will NEVER be a Mac version.

Duh, Mac owners dont count.

theres a plugin for mozilla browsers that works on firefox on windows. this doesn't work on a mac?

Macs or no Macs, why would you want to stream TV to a computer?

Stick it to the man!!! How many people remember that TUAW.com is in the Weblogs Inc Network, which is owned by AOL?

Thanks for telling your bosses how it should be Jan! The readers won't forget!

I duuno. Being locked out of free downloads of Beetlejuice and Growing Pains doesn't exaclt make my blood boil.

I'm reminded of a review of cheap PCs in a local free computer rag a few years back. One of the "Cons" for the iMac was that it doesn't run Windows. That's a con?