Apple reveals iTV

Why I love Apple:

"The surprise came in the form of a preview of an unfinished product: The iTV, a small, sleek box that will let people wirelessly move digital movies, TV shows, music videos and photos from personal computers to big-screen televisions.

'I hope that gives you a little bit of an idea of where we are going,' Jobs concluded after talking for about an hour.

Jobs called the iTV 'the missing piece,' and marks the clearest signal how Apple plans to leverage the success of content through iTunes (more than 1.5 billion songs have been downloaded and 220 television shows are available) and the broad appeal of the iPod (more than 60 million have been sold) to stake its claim in your living room. Jobs said the iTV will be available in early 2007 for $299....

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Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, noted that Apple's new device will let people move videos from their computers to their televisions using only six buttons -- versus the 56 needed for the Windows XP Media Center, which was released almost two years ago with similar ambitions to be a hub for home entertainment."

Is this the beginning of the end of Satellite Television and media monopoly? I think so.

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