{"id":2734,"date":"2010-09-02T16:03:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T20:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2014-07-12T12:50:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T16:50:34","slug":"apples-trouble-with-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/02\/apples-trouble-with-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&rsquo;s Trouble With TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/staff\/fatbits\/2010\/09\/apples-trouble-with-tv.ars\">John Siracusa<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/staff\/fatbits\/2010\/09\/apples-trouble-with-tv.ars\"><p>Any living room &ldquo;solution&rdquo; that doesn&rsquo;t offer a way to view that hot serial drama on the night it airs or a favorite soap opera or that obscure cooking reality show your dad is obsessed with will never be a comprehensive solution. Instead, it just <em>adds<\/em> to the giant mess hanging off the back of the TV: another expense, another device, another remote, another headache.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>There&rsquo;s far too little content compared with cable\/satellite or Netflix, and the video quality is 720p, and then only nominally. None of this is necessarily Apple&rsquo;s fault, but it&rsquo;s Apple TV&rsquo;s problem. I think they&rsquo;re on the right track with streaming rentals, though. I never wanted to &ldquo;buy&rdquo; large DRM-encoded files and then worry about backing them up and syncing them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Siracusa: Any living room &ldquo;solution&rdquo; that doesn&rsquo;t offer a way to view that hot serial drama on the night it airs or a favorite soap opera or that obscure cooking reality show your dad is obsessed with will never be a comprehensive solution. Instead, it just adds to the giant mess hanging off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,97],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-tv","tag-video"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9126,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions\/9126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}