You all seem to forget that this stuff is upgradeable, codecs are able to be added. When he first announced it as iTV everyone said "it will fail because it doesn't have a hard drive or HD support!" and when it was released (gasp) it had a hard drive and HD (while limited) support. They don't have to show everything if the product is able to be udpated over time (ie, the core concept behind a flexible iPhone interface - it can change!) Wait until Leopard comes out, I think that Apple is holding some of their cards close to their chest until their full connected system is out in the open. (Chances are if we public commenters are identifying gaps, etc, I'm just 'guessing' apple may have thought of them as well.) After the Vista/Tiger comparison, I don't blame them for being a little guarded. Same story with iPhone, comment but don't condemn until you see the final working product within the full apple scheme.
No I didn't forget that the codecs are upgradable at all, I didn't mention it because the Codecs are updatable on the Xbox360 as well so there isn't any advantage or dissadvantage there. but now that you mention that the connectivity on the 360 also provides the flexibility to use 3rd party connections, not just Microsofts (windows media 11, Zune software, or MCE), like ORB or TVVersity, heck there is even a MAC client too (currently just does music, and pictures though) that already support way more codecs right now.
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You all seem to forget that this stuff is upgradeable, codecs are able to be added. When he first announced it as iTV everyone said "it will fail because it doesn't have a hard drive or HD support!" and when it was released (gasp) it had a hard drive and HD (while limited) support. They don't have to show everything if the product is able to be udpated over time (ie, the core concept behind a flexible iPhone interface - it can change!) Wait until Leopard comes out, I think that Apple is holding some of their cards close to their chest until their full connected system is out in the open. (Chances are if we public commenters are identifying gaps, etc, I'm just 'guessing' apple may have thought of them as well.) After the Vista/Tiger comparison, I don't blame them for being a little guarded. Same story with iPhone, comment but don't condemn until you see the final working product within the full apple scheme.
No I didn't forget that the codecs are upgradable at all, I didn't mention it because the Codecs are updatable on the Xbox360 as well so there isn't any advantage or dissadvantage there. but now that you mention that the connectivity on the 360 also provides the flexibility to use 3rd party connections, not just Microsofts (windows media 11, Zune software, or MCE), like ORB or TVVersity, heck there is even a MAC client too (currently just does music, and pictures though) that already support way more codecs right now.