Future uses of Rendezvous

http://www.iii.co.uk/shares/?type=news&articleid=4461577&action=article

That's what this sounds like. This reminds me of Pippin!

(AFX-Focus) 2002-09-10 20:10 GMT: Philips to use Apple's Jaguar operating system in home entertainment devices
PARIS (AFX) - Apple Computer Inc chief executive Steve Jobs said the company has agreed a deal with Royal Philips Electronics NV under which Philips can use Apple's software in its next generation of home entertainment systems.

Jobs said the system will allow users access to technology not available to users of Microsoft's Windows system.

"Apple and Philips believe that consumers want their electronic goods to be connected across their homes," said Gerard Kleisterlee, Philips chairman, in a video link to a convention of Apple users in Paris.

No financial details were disclosed.

I doubt we'll see an Apple brand TV, but maybe a sticker on a Phillips that says Powered by Apple, or something like that. I think the article misquotes that Jaguar itself will be used in HES, but Rendevous most definately will. It's very good news, though.:)

And what would then be the digital hub? Could you control your tv/stereo with your mac? But an airport card in it some where and its networked?

That would be pretty damn cool......

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sounds very cool.. any idea how much these things would cost??

Originally posted by dukestreet
And what would then be the digital hub? Could you control your tv/stereo with your mac? But an airport card in it some where and its networked?

That would be pretty damn cool......

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You can already do that, sort of. Mostly with PCs, but with something like Rendevous, It'll make thing a helluva lot easier.:)


I posted a similar article at THE place to discuss a Home Theatre computer, the AVS Forum.
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i think the best way for it to work is that the computer controls the theatre system, but is also accessed through the system, perhaps a simplified X platform that is only for media controlling, and is run from the computer. Airport should be used to link the main box (EQ, whatever) to the computer itself. The real question i have is what true advantages this has over present day systems-- certainly not costs... i guess you could enter your schedule into your PDA, it bluetooths to the computer and you see your iCalendar on the TV, or you can bring your ipod to a friend's house and play your songs without plugging anything in... in about any scenario, bluetooth plays a major role, i think...

:)
pnw

Originally posted by paulwhannel
The real question i have is what true advantages this has over present day systems-- certainly not costs... i guess you could enter your schedule into your PDA, it bluetooths to the computer and you see your iCalendar on the TV, or you can bring your ipod to a friend's house and play your songs without plugging anything in... in about any scenario, bluetooth plays a major role, i think...

:)
pnw

The advantages would be that if you hooked up your computer as the core of your HTS (home theatre system), you can do a lot more than just watch TV, movies and listen to music. There's a program for PCs called DScaler that deinterlaces an analog signal when it's being viewed on your screen and greatly improves the image.
With good software, you can also turn it into a DVR with full TIVO-like functionality.
The computer already has progressive-scan output, so DVD's look better than a low-end interlaced player and when tweaked right, can look as good or even better that a high end progresive-scan player.
PCs also have a few HDTV cards to choose from that let you watch and record it in it's native resolution.
Imagine if you had a Mac with Airport and a Phillips a/v reciever with it also, you could stream all your playlists wirelessly and hear them in surround-sound glory.
The main advantage to all this is archiving. One thing you can't do with ordinary HT equipment is archive. TIVO and other DVRs do somewhat, but it's difficult to get them off of the boxes and save them to a firewire drive or something. With a HTPC or Mac, you can archive every TV show you record, every sond you rip and every DVD you watch. That's the main reason why this is a good thing.
Although, you'll run out of space quickly, but that's what 320 GB drives are for.:p

If Apple continues like that, producing fancy peripherals in palce of computers as it shuld be by the en of next year we are gonna see infomertials overflood by Apple products and with 1.4 GHz powermacs in the market.

Apple is doing a smoke bomb because of its incapacity of producing computers faster than PC's and trying to develop a OS superior and efficient than OS9.

BECAUSE JAGUAR IS NOT AS RELIABLE, FLEXIBLE, COMPATIBLE AND FRIENDLY THAN OS 9 !!!

Oh hush. You can bitch and complain about Jaguar and no more OS9 all you want, it's not going to bring it back. If you want to run it then run it. Don't go off bitching about it. Where Apple is headed with these 'fancy peripherals' as you so elegantly call them, is the future of home computing. In 5 years there won't be 'personal computers' anymore, there will be a bunch of fancy peripherals interconnected like what Apple and Phillips are doing with Rendevous. You go and run your OS9 if you want, Apple's not going to stop you.

Originally posted by mymemory
BECAUSE JAGUAR IS NOT AS RELIABLE, FLEXIBLE, COMPATIBLE AND FRIENDLY THAN OS 9 !!!

A computer is not just about speed, or thousands of programs, but the user experience. Apple works harder than anyone else on this part of making using a computer, much less living your life, easier.

As for Jaguar, I'll just start by saying that although it might not be as compatible with tons and tons of old, slow, legacy code, it certainly is more reliable, flexible, and friendly than OS 9 ever was. Try to do intensive processing in more than 2 apps with OS 9, and print in another... It just doesn't work. When your Mac is working to open a large file, it can't do much else on OS 9 (or at least the last time I used it, I couldn't...)

The UNIX underpinnings of OS X make it far more reliable and flexible than OS 9. You can control almost every aspect of the OS. If you want your computer to read a certain file system, just drop a certain file in a certain folder, and you're ready to go... I'll leave the rest of this to people with more knowledge with Jaguar...

As for Rendezvous, this sounds awesome. I know that there are people with 'wired' homes, but they cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and you have to configure everything manually... With Rendezvous, (I'm not sure how it works, but this would be a good way...) you could be able to plug in your TV or receiver to a network, or have it connected wirelessly, and the computer sees the device, and the device says "I use Rendezvous", and then downloads necessary controls, or drivers, or whatever onto the computer, from the device. That way, you don't have to worry about installing drivers yourself. So, while you're listening to your music on your home stereo from your computer with no wires, and printing from a network printer with no configuration at all whatsoever, and either watching TV on a computer through the TV tuner, or watching a movie from your computer on the TV, all of your pee-cee friends will be there with their 2.5ghz hot-plates with neon lights, and clear plastic cases, trying to install video card drivers, and configure a printer...

As Janie Porche says: "My PC wasn't plug-n-play. It was Plug-n-Get-Mad.", or "Who wants to install windows drivers on christmas evening?"