Best Buy Explains Its Leaked Apple HDTV Survey

Its not that I hate Apple, I think they have good products, its the people who buys Apple products.
I hate supporting Apple computers because the users thinks it should just work, yet even they can't get it to work with anything else, be it Linux or Windows or the toaster oven.
 
This could be worth that price if it has a touch screen interface that works as well as the iphone/ipad and has good finger print resistance.
 
You can already do that with a Samsung TV + Tablet/phone. Least you can in the Futureshop down the road from me. They have a Samsung 7 inch tablet + smart TV setup and you can change the inputs and everything from the tablet.
 
you guys sound like babes.. let the thing come out first before you bitch. Watch it be better than any other smart tv. but then someone still complain saying they can get a Samsung for 300$ cheaper. Next year, samsung will copy everything apple did to make smart tv's actually useful
 
Zepher said:
If it has a capacitive touch screen then yes, it's worth it.
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The average person isn't going to get up off the sofa and walk three feet to change the channel. A touch screen is about the most useless feature you can add to a TV.
 
It could be nothing more then a 720p 60hz standard tv with no connectors and only plays reruns of "Leave it to Beaver" so long as they stamp "APPLE" on it and make the outside look nice people will line up to buy it like crazed idiots.

Next up for sale the all new iPoop! In it's all new color .. Chrome and Brown! only $50 EACH! (Min order of 10 units)
 
CompMage said:
It could be nothing more then a 720p 60hz standard tv with no connectors and only plays reruns of "Leave it to Beaver" so long as they stamp "APPLE" on it and make the outside look nice people will line up to buy it like crazed idiots.

Next up for sale the all new iPoop! In it's all new color .. Chrome and Brown! only $50 EACH! (Min order of 10 units)
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LOL!
 
the-one1 said:
I hate supporting Apple computers because the users thinks it should just work, yet even they can't get it to work with anything else, be it Linux or Windows or the toaster oven.
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I'm not aware of any Apple products which are designed to work with toaster ovens, so this isn't surprising.
 
Team Obi Juan said:
If wifi is built in along with all the components, this could be a huge hit. Control it with your iPhone or iPad from anywhere, with only the power cord. Have Netflix and all the streaming apps built in, along with the app store. Going to be huge.
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Kind of like any Samsung panel is now. You know, with wifi, netflix, hulu, zune and the ability to control it with any Samsung smart phone.

Hmm...whodathunkdit?
 
And to think, they will likely only have 2-3 people kill them selves putting them together each month! We'll give them an extra jumping employee for release.

But for this we also have the inett!!
 
Considering how crappy the screens were on the original apple cinema, and many imacs after I expect the panels on apple to be low quality, but people will buy them and say they are the best thing since sliced bread. I have decent lcd screen that colors are accurate and blacks look black. Most of my friends imacs do not have black screens but dark grey ones.
Then again most people seem to like over vibrant colors.
 
Anyone saying that this would be stupid is, frankly, an idiot.

Apple doesn't half-ass anything. If something like this comes out, you know it's going to be pretty cool.

Apple fans are willing to buy anything Apple because Apple's products are consistently first-class, innovative, and cool. That cache would disappear almost overnight if they completely screwed something up and released a product that was immensely lame and overpriced.
 
Koolthulu said:
The average person isn't going to get up off the sofa and walk three feet to change the channel. A touch screen is about the most useless feature you can add to a TV.
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Exactly. I don't want to be standing up in the middle of my living room (or wherever) running my hand allover the screen. If I can control it from an iPad, from my couch, then I already have a touchscreen in a more practical form.
I would not buy an Apple HDTV (at least for that price.)
I do like Apple TV and would just use it with my overpriced Sony 42''. ;)
 
HydroBudz said:
Kind of like any Samsung panel is now. You know, with wifi, netflix, hulu, zune and the ability to control it with any Samsung smart phone.
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Can you control them with your voice, however?

Current rumors indicate that the iTV (or whatever it's called) will sport voice control via Siri. I'd say it's a fair bet those rumors are accurate.
 
wonderfield said:
Can you control them with your voice, however?

Current rumors indicate that the iTV (or whatever it's called) will sport voice control via Siri. I'd say it's a fair bet those rumors are accurate.
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I can control my Samsung Epic4g with my voice. So why would I not be able to control my phone which controls the TV with my voice?
 
Why do they even feel compelled to explain it? Companies conduct surveys all the time. I would have told whoever demanded an explanation to fuck themselves.
 
wonderfield said:
Can you control them with your voice, however?

Current rumors indicate that the iTV (or whatever it's called) will sport voice control via Siri. I'd say it's a fair bet those rumors are accurate.
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Furthermore, voice control has been around a LOT longer than Siri. My old Samsung SCH-3200 flip phone had voice dialing and such. And that phone is 6-7 years old.
 
HydroBudz said:
Kind of like any Samsung panel is now. You know, with wifi, netflix, hulu, zune and the ability to control it with any Samsung smart phone.

Hmm...whodathunkdit?
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Seems to me that Samsung needs an advertising department.
 
I do bet that Apple's implementation is far more elegant than Samsung's attempt. Probably have to root your phone before even starting to mess with it.
 
Not only would this thing sell, but someone would get one day 1 and have a thread with pics up in the Displays and Apple subforum of this very site.
 
Samsung's would probably work, but only if your control device was +/- five degrees from the exact front of the TV. :rolleyes:
 
But it would have a glowing apple logo on it and it would be white with aluminum cladding, who could resist? Applephiles will buy it no matter what... and these days, it would probably outsell Sony. :-<
 
For an open technology forum, I see a lot of Apple haters.

If you're going to bash Apple for their slave like manufacturing plant, you have to bash nearly every competing manufacturer.

If you want to bash them for their higher prices, you have to realize that they have the right to charge a fair market price for their items. You may call the people buying Apple products sheep and insane, but the fact remains that there is a market for aesthetic design and simple functionality.

Sure you could setup a HTPC for half the price, but you would need multiple pieces of hardware, hours of configuration, multi-minute waits before you get to the content you want, and a higher power bill.

Apple attempts to make things easy, and they charge a premium for the nearly intangible elements of looks, ease of use, and the cool factor. Their products are generally of high engineering and materials quality, and generally work as advertised.

I think the problem here stems from the fact that we're all tech geeks who love our machines, and in turn love tinkering with them. Apple buyers are buying a tool, they don't care how it works so long as it keeps working. Tech geeks are buying a toy to fulfill their hobby.

Stop the hate, it's getting old.
 
jpm100 said:
Winning thread quote.

If M$ didn't nickel and dime everything on xbox, the xbox + kinect + 46" TV + your pick of Boxee Box, etc. pretty much would match any Apple TV that comes out in the next few years.
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Until it red rings and gets added to my pile of broken xboxes.

Say what you will about Apple, but at least it isn't as shit as microsoft.
 
yashooa said:
Exactly. I don't want to be standing up in the middle of my living room (or wherever) running my hand allover the screen.
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You're not an Apple fan then.

Running your hand over the shiny product whilst drooling is what it's all about.
 
I think it's overpriced.

A year ago I bought a 46" LG LED back-lit TV with IPS panel and smart TV features for $1100. The set has been superb, an excellent experience

Today you can buy a 47" LG TV with the same features for $1000, and a 42" model is around $800. So you can get just as good a TV for half the price.

I can't imagine why the Apple idiots will buy it, but I'm sure some of them will. Still, I don't expect the TVs to fly off the shelf because the "expensive" HDTV market is already saturated, and this is only offering a new way to control things.

The only people really in the market for HDTVs these days are (1) replacements and (2) people who were too cheap to buy until right now.
 
How can you say it's overpriced when you don't even know what it is?

It doesn't even exist yet!
 
kumquat said:
How can you say it's overpriced when you don't even know what it is?

It doesn't even exist yet!
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Because a set of hypothetical specs with a price tag were listed quite clearly. Assume a high-quality display because Apple never half-asses those.

$1500 is almost twice what you'd pay for a high-quality 42" TV with everything except the iOS integration.
 
dr.stevil said:
Pretty much my thought as well.

If it's a highend display (which I assume it would be), the price doesn't sound too bad... obviously depending on the specs and features. If it's some POS panel then forget about it.

With that said, I'd still opt for an $99 AppleTV with XBMC loaded onto it. I already have a few TVs... I'm not in the market for another.
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Not sure if serious.... $1700 or so buys a premium Sharp Aquos 70 inch set. $1500 for an apple branded 42 would be lolworthy. As I predicted though... here you guys are!
 
kumquat said:
Anyone saying that this would be stupid is, frankly, an idiot.

Apple doesn't half-ass anything. If something like this comes out, you know it's going to be pretty cool.

Apple fans are willing to buy anything Apple because Apple's products are consistently first-class, innovative, and cool. That cache would disappear almost overnight if they completely screwed something up and released a product that was immensely lame and overpriced.
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Another joke of a post. Apple is not innovative, they are a branding company with overpriced, same quality goods. The iClone especially floors me since we had pda devices and pda phones many years prior, yet people hail it as some amazing invention. Same deal with other devices... imac for example, I had a Monorail Pc in 1998 I think it was that had the same setup essentially with the specifications of that time period.
 
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