If this is just a AppleTV puck built in, it is utterly doomed to failure. If it's instead like the Microsoft technology on display for the last three years at Disneyland, it's sure got a chance of taking off. I was thinking about this post while watching a demonstration of video calling with an HDTV, of a TV defaulting to lovely artwork rather than sitting there like a black hole when not being used. A notepad in the corner of the screen noting the fictional owner of the house on display had to leave in twenty minutes due to traffic to reach the 8pm movie.
It's funny that I had forgotten such an old display at the park, with it's touch screen and obvious integration of multiple technologies. The funny thing was that I was mildly proud of my cheap TV which streams Netflix and the like wirelessly, and ignoring that it was effectively just a computer with a really big screen.
Well, if Apple delivers, kudos for them to bring the technology to home first.
I forgot about Disneyland and their use of tech. Will have to pay a visit there with my grandchildren to see the new stuff. Yes, these devices are just computers with screens. But so many are limited by having crippled interface capability. For a long time, people were buying HD TVs and thought they were viewing great stuff; alas they had no HD signal hookup. Now people are discovering what is possible and they are salivating. I've got Roku and Apple pucks for streaming internet content to the TV, but I want more. Smart TVs are going to be common soon, but people will get confused by all the different offerings. For a start, I want simultaneous display and operation of multiple feeds (video-chatting, streaming video, off-the-air TV, video gaming, security camera video, internet browsing and telephone calling).