Apple TV gains hard disk capacity, loses weighty price

No because we are trying to do Apple a favour. I'm sorry but the pricing of the Apple TV is absolutely nuts for what you can buy and there has never been a good explanation of why Apple cut the price of the device in the US but never passed on ANY cut anywhere else. The reality of the situation is that you'd have to be barking mad to pay for an Apple TV in Europe. Consider this: GBP 219.00 for an Apple TV is not much different to GBP 244.69, which is what a PS3 Slim costs. Why would I choose the Apple TV?

At the US price the Apple TV is the equivalent of £139 in the UK - a very tempting proposition. In the UK store it is £219 - a 57% mark-up! What a rip off...

no 4 will not happen until Apple gets a cut of any money. otherwise opening up to Netflix, Hulu etc is just eating into their rental and buy money.

and since I can't see said companies wanting to spread the wealth, you'll be out of luck.

as cool as the Apple TV is for some folks I wanted a lot of the same things mentioned around here so I just bought a mac mini and haven't looked back. i'm actually about to shift my itunes library completely to it and just 'home share' it to my imac when I need it. basically turning the mini into a HTPC/media server

Interestingly, apple rewrote Quicktime from scratch for Snow Leopard, and it is capable of running much more than ever before without the need of external libraries. I wouldn't be surprised if this little thing received some of this code into it...

We're also really happy Apple TV owners, especially since we added Boxee to it. I've been watching out-of-market baseball games (go Tigers!) using Boxee's MLB.tv app for the past few weeks, and we use it to play Pandora through our stereo system all the time (and stream the very rare out-on-DVD-but-inexplicably-not-for-rent-online movie). We also use it to play our music and we've rented a few movies off it. And, before my iMac broke, I was working on putting our whole DVD library into iTunes to play on it.

That said, I could go for a higher powered one that was a little more versatile -- if that happened, I would just move the current Apple TV into the bedroom.

Arrgghhh!

I decided back in August that I would buy an Apple TV, buy wait until the Sept. event just in case Apple announced anything. They didn't, so I went to the store and picked one up Thursday. Should have waited a few days. :(

I love my ATV. i bought a 40g on craigslist about 2 years ago, and I stream my library to it, not using any of the onboard space. i installed boxee, and its ok, but its too bad apple doesn't incorporate apps for the atv.

i wish we could get an update! a better menu, mobileme, streaming videos from iphoto. these things seem relatively simple to ask for!

as far as another device....i don't want anything else. i don't want a ps3 or mac mini...i like my sexy little atv. it looks great, and simple with my setup, which is how i like it. why would i want controllers or cables or a keyboard/mouse to have to deal with? my iphone controls my atv...and boxee for that matter, perfectly.

but give me an update already...sheesh.

My 3 year old loves the ATV....He no longer scratches the DVD's which is a + for me. Hopefully they will continue improving the ATV

There are a few simple upgrades I'd like to see that seem like no-brainers to me. A good start would be to let me log into my Flickr account and get a slide show of all my contacts' photos. And allow to use all photos by a contact as the screensaver, not just photo sets.

1. Still the same 299€ / 399€ price, that's $580,31. Much like most apple products, twice the price.

2. And still no Movies and no TV shows in the store.

3. Getting shafted by the whole "industry" of digital downloads (I.e. none of them sell to you).

When the prices are what they are and the industry is giving you the finger you can probably guess where people get their entertainment. And the locale is Finland.