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Apple Introduces 160GB Apple TV

Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 7:40 AM - by

Apple is now offering a 160GB hard drive option for Apple TV buyers that want more than 40GB of storage space without voiding their product warranty. The 160GB hard drive is a build-to-order option and offers about four times the storage space as a standard Apple TV.

Apple claims the higher capacity hard drive in its home media center appliance can hold up to 200 hours of video, 36,000 songs, or 25,000 photos. The 40GB Apple TV is priced at US$299, and the 160GB model costs $399.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the new Apple TV built-to-order option at the Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital Conference on Wednesday. The event turned out to be a launching platform for several other entertainment-related Apple announcements.

The company also launched DRM-free music at the iTunes Store, announced that YouTube videos will be available on Apple TV in June, and also added Paul McCartney's classic albums to the iTunes Store.

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Engine Joe said:

member since 29 Jun 2004 with 412 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Thu May 31, 2007 9:27 am

How about adding support for 5.1 surround? That's one of the biggest barricades for me right now.

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brett_x said:

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Thu May 31, 2007 9:37 am

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Engine Joe wrote:
How about adding support for 5.1 surround? That's one of the biggest barricades for me right now.

Technically, the support for it is there.

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site: roughlydrafted.com wrote:
The only limitation with DTS 5.1 sound right now is that Apple isn't offering it on its own movie downloads. The Apple TV can certainly “do it,” because it doesn't have to “do” anything; it merely passes it on to the 5.1 DTS decoder that anyone with 5.1 surround speakers already has.

The whole article is here: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/147048D8-D8B7-45E7-9A97-3CD5B4C2B75A.html

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