The Apple TV You’re Having When You Don’t Own An Apple TV
Duncan Riley
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Not Apple TV has a fairly simple goal: to recreate the Apple TV experience for users who don’t own an Apple TV, via the web browser.
The flash based interface feels exactly like the Apple TV interface, with a few changes. Features such as a “History” and a “Favorites” have been included, along with a wider variety of online video choices; services available via the Not Apple TV interface include YouTube, Google Video, Pornotube and others. Just like Apple TV, the site is unable to interact or record live TV.
Aside from the obvious novelty value, Not Apple TV actually provides a reasonable interface from which to video popular user generated video sites. It’s a clever site, if perhaps not an earth shattering one.
Site designer Paul Yanez has also created web versions of Joost and Babelgum (here and here) that access the same video sites.
This is great… I look forward to the whole “internetizing” of television streams anyhow… this brings it that much closer!
Jon
Make it work with my Wii!!
mmmm, I wonder when the lawyers will get involved.
This guy is a moron. He ‘creates’ something that looks the same, with the implication that he’s so smart cos he can deliver it in a browser. Try viewing ‘his’ versions on a 7ft plasma screen - hell, even a regular 27in screen! Apple TV and Joost (ignoring Bablegum here, as it really is shit) recreate the TV viewing experience via an IP platform that provides the best of both worlds. This muppet acts like they’re little more than YouTube clones! Hello! There are good reasons why they’re not browser-based applications!
I agree with Stuart; let’s not go so far as to call this gent a designer, huh?
i just posted a small blog on itaggit.com about how i hooked up my old screenless powerbook to create an apple TV - sorta in my bedroom. with a wireless keyboard and mouse, airport + itunes shared on network - i can do everything appletv can do. it’s extremely easy. - only thing missing is front row.
http://www.itaggit.com/communi.....2E00_.aspx
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I agree with you Duncan. Sure, it looks nice, but it’s not original.
This thing would take off if he would link straight up to movies from Video Hybrid or others found here.
I want to hire this guy….He built out three versions of web based TV APPs….Damn. Thats a one man show…
JW!
Except for the quality it looks pretty darn good.
I don’t get the allure of Apple TV when this set up offers more …..
http://techavid.com/internetTV.php
Do people not understand simple trademark laws anymore?
I run two Apple TV-related web sites: appletvsource.com and appletvhacks.net. Though I really don’t understand the reasoning behind making an interface that looks like Apple TV’s FrontRow, it is nice to see some new ideas being implemented in the interface. Apple could have added many more features to the Apple TV, like what this gentleman did to his web site. I do commend his effort.
Give creativity a chance..
Lori
apple will be after these people to change their name….
Great job Paul Yanez ! I have some q’s:
1. Is it possible to embed these players into a web site ?
2. Can you customise players the way that everyone will have a chance to mashup video content from all hosting sites (YouTube, Brightcove, Veoh…) - a mashup flash application like SplashCast ? SplashCast works only with youtube and have some problems with Full Screen mode.
http://web.splashcast.net/catalog/search.aspx
I thing that with your knowlage of programming in Flash you can make better application than SplashCast and you can make real web tv revolution ! Watching video in the brewser is the easyest way and in the near future 6 Mb/s transfers will be standard so video resolution will not be a metter
> search
search - not working in all 3 apps (IE and Firefox)
How can I watch my youtube videos ?