Comments on: Apple TV = iTunes + YouTube + IPTV?

By: YouTube Custom Player at LifeChurch.tv : swerve

YouTube Custom Player at LifeChurch.tv : swerve — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:31:17 +0000

[...] YouTube continues to expand its platform and reach. I previously discussed how YouTube has partnered with Apple to deliver videos on the Apple TV and most recently the iPhone.A couple of days ago, YouTube started to offer the ability to customize its player. Now you can select from multiple color schemes, choose from two different layouts, and customize the title of the player. Additionally, you can choose your own playlist of videos to be displayed in the custom player. [...]

By: Bobby Gruenewald

Bobby Gruenewald — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:33:13 +0000

Joshua,

I think that could certainly happen. I imagine the team at Apple is focused right now on a successful launch after the hype as risen beyond reason.

Mike,

I see the YouTube deal as something that helps move the Apple TV the right direction…away from iTunes only.

I personally don’t want an editor to decide what I want to watch. I’d rather have effective filters (user ratings are one that YouTube uses) that still allow me to see or access anything that exists. The YouTube model will impact our living room, and the quality gap you are referencing will largely disappear in time. It is increasingly less expensive and difficult to create quality content…something the film industry is just now realizing. The filters will improve with companies like YouTube…just as Google radically improved the filters of accessing text content.

By: Mike Jones

Mike Jones — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:48:30 +0000

I still think that the Apple TV is missing the mark, and YouTube is not helping.

The problem with YouTube is that there is too much bad content that you have to wade through to get to the good content. I think most people feel comfortable with this on the internet when they’re just looking to waste some time or find cheap entertainment. However, when people step in their living room them demand high quality and dependable entertainment which is why I think that YouTube has no place in the living room.

What this can become is a tool for other resources. If other online distributors of content that mediate the quality for their content with user ratings or editors can use this technology to distribute their content to the living room that may be the beginning of IPTV as we dream it to be.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:45:55 +0000

You are now officially my favorite church blog…. You have just successfully integrated APPLE into your church growth strategy! :-) :-)
Since you are already thinking ahead…. what about this? the macbook has isight and ichat that allow you to video conference….The iphone has a camera and the base operating system is Mac osx! It also has a a wifi chip and is working with a company that is in the works to deliver content to the living room via broadband internet…. Any ideas on where future builds of the iphone may be headed?

By: Bo

Bo — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:12:30 +0000

Bobby, I think we are just scraping the surface on IPTV. This is only the beginning of some pretty incredible stuff. Not even counting the Apple TV, but I think we are getting ready to see some pretty stikin cool stuff!

By: Bobby Gruenewald

Bobby Gruenewald — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:21:29 +0000

In some ways they already are.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:57:16 +0000

This is really cool! I think that soon Apple will be bigger than Microsoft!!