So awhile back I talked about how the Apple TV hadn’t updated to allow for access to the rentals and what not…

Again, old news (hey this is not a geek news site) , but they did update…. I picked up the update a half hour or so after it was released… so I like to think that I was the first consumer to actually rent a movie on the Apple TV… not likely, but in my geek dreams .. it is true.

So anyway, Apple has gotten some bad press over the last few weeks about the whole thing.. which personally I have to say is CRAP… or as colonel tigh would say crraaaappppp…  I LOVE the apple TV.  To date I gave rented several movies on it.

Some of the bad press included some dude talking about how he rented a movie and started watching it as it was streaming… (According to apple on a high speed connection you can begin watching in as little as 30 seconds. ) and after about an hour he caught up with the download and had to stop watching the movie… ok yeah, that would suck.  But you know what.  Not apple’s fault.  Cancel your cheap ass DSL connection and  get real internet.  We rented a movie…. in HD… began watching it immediately, and never had any lag at all..

Another complaint is the 24 hour thing… once you start watching a movie, you have 24 hours to complete it.. I agree with this one, that is complete crap.. BUT … again, I seriously doubt this had ANYTHING to do with Apple.  I am sure that is part of the agreement that they signed.  However, Steve (cause I know he read’s this blog first thing every morning.. ) please correct that problem and get the agreements ammended…

Another issue that has cropped up is that movies that you rented before the release of up the Apple TV update will not play on the apple Tv..  and yeah that is true.  I experienced that with the copy of “the simpsons” that I rented.  HOWEVER,  Apple is also handling this problem as well, allowing people to re-download the content to be compliant with the new update…

So, all in all, Apple delivers another great product and stands behind it … better then windows Vista anyway …. LOL

It’s old news… but as you know HD-DVD is officially dead.

I am disappointed, not for a really good “geek” esq reason, but becuase Blue Ray sounds stupid… and doesn’t in the least indicate what the heck it does..

The biggest reason, is that I hate SONY… I used to be a big huge fan of Sony, and let’s face it, back in the day Sony really had it going on. Without them, we wouldn’t have portable devices, and lots of other neat little gadgets. But the 80’s are over… and sony turned into a company that installs trojans on your computer when you put their CD’s in your PC (that trojan of course was designed to steal your information and give (sell) to their thrid party advertisers… real nice).

Another reason why it annoys me that they “won” the format wars is one of the reasons why they won. The DRM on BlueRay is much more convoluted then the HD format was… It will be broken of course, but any company that tries to prevent free access aggravates me.

Now, Toshiba has bowed out gracefully and discontinued anything and every thing HD-DVD… and I respect that.. and as a plus HD-DVD players are REALLY cheap… So I will probably buy one, for no other reason then to upscale my standard DVD’s, but for the future… it is all about HD movies from Apple TV….

Sony – BITE me.. I am not buying blue ray… so deal with it…