The article, “Apple TV has Landed” by David Pogue describes a new technological invention that will change our students lives. As teachers, we already compete with the television for our students’ attention but now we will really need to get creative. Apple has invented “a box that can connect computers and TVs without wires.” According to this article, DVD are on their way out. With this new box, people can see any movie or television show anytime they want. Pogue states, “Basically, it’s an iPod for your TV. That is, it copies the iTunes library (music, podcasts, TV shows, movies) from one Mac or Windows PC on your wired or wireless home network to its 40-gigabyte hard drive and keeps the copy updated.”
The only problem with the Apple TV is that it requires a widescreen television. You can get one of these boxes for about $300. Check out the article if you are interested. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/technology/22pogue.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
2 comments:
An ipod for the television, that's cool. The only thing that troubles me is whether or not the quality of entertainment ebign produced is going to deminish. Not that the major networks have anything that grand, I was thinking more along the lines of the Discovery.
Wow, Bridget! This is crazy. I think that all forms of media - CDs and DVDs - are going to be obsolete very soon, and we are going to have all of our media in digital form. As CDs are already on their way out, it only makes sense that it would be the same for DVDs. The upside of this is that we will have less waste and more space!
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