Apple's iTV Hometheatre Playback Box - Send your videos from your PC to TV

Apple's newest innovation code-named iTV is expected to transmit digital media files straight from your PC to your TV.

Jobs described the forthcoming $299 set-top box about 3 times a CD case, as “completing the package” of Apple’s multimedia offerings. Users can download music, TV programs, and now movies from the iTunes Store. They can watch those multimedia files on both their Macs and iPods. However, there’s no easy way of watching such programming on their television sets—Jobs sees iTV as the key piece of that puzzle.

Resembling a squat Mac Mini, the iTV will use wireless networking to stream movies and TV shows from iTunes to a television. The power supply is built right in to the unit; it also features USB 2.0, Ethernet, High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) plug, component video, analog audio and optical audio interfaces.


The box is driven by software that carries a slight resemblance to Front Row, the multimedia control application Apple bundles with newer Macs. However, software features 3-D animated graphics with a menu on the right while dynamic graphics are displayed on the left.

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