Scobleizer is wrong: Apple TV not 1080i
For some unfathomable reason, at least to me, my brother bought an Apple TV last night.
Why do I say this? Because the guy already has devices in his system that offer the same/similar functionality such as his satellite DVR and his Xbox 360.
Anyhow, it's his money and he can certainly spend it on what he wants. The biggest problem with his post is that he says that the Apple TV supports 1080i HD. This is, quite frankly, wrong.
While it will certainly output at 1080i to match the input of a given TV, the max resolution of the video that it will handle is 720p.
So it does not support 1080 HD video.
And you can't even say that it offers the advantage of 60 frame per second (FPS) video in 720p, since it can only handle 24 frames per second at that resolution.
Oh and how do I know this since I do not (and will not) own one? I got it off of Apple's website. It's all there in the specs.
Anyhow, as far as I can tell, most people would still be better off buying an Xbox 360 if they want to watch video from the web on their TV, although since the Apple TV is fanless, it's going to be much quieter.
Oh and by the way, you don't need a Windows Media Center PC to send video to your Xbox 360. You can do it from a Mac too. Click here for a link to my friend Mike's blog for a post on that.
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