I would sell my PS3 and buy an Apple TV if...

...it could view/record Freeview or Freesat (UK).
At the moment I have the PS3 with PlayTV, which works well, but I find myself hardly ever playing games on it any more, and using it mostly for music, photos, videos and TV. At the moment, we are really missing the online movie rental side of things, typically my wife and I will decide to rent a movie on the evening we want to watch it, but by the time we get to the Blockbuster in town, they don't have what we want. At the moment, I'm renting on iTunes, transferring to my iPhone and playing on the device through the TV... however I would prefer a more convenient and HD solution.
Apple TV could be a huge hit in the UK, it would fill the gap between home-produced media (photos, home movies), Music playback, broadcast TV, HD viewing and on-demand Movie rentals without being location specific (a la Virgin) and without warranting huge subscription fees and horrible user interfaces (a la Sky). A Flash-supported browser would be sweet too for YouTube and iPlayer (don't know if this is already the case).
I like the idea of being able to search for a Movie/TV show using Apple TV, it checks the broadcast EPGs as well as iPlayer and the iTunes Store and presents the option of recording the broadcast, streaming from iPlayer or buying/renting the item. If I choose to record it, it would then be the icing on the cake if I could then transfer it back to my iTunes library on my Mac, or directly to an iPhone/iPod in h.264 format.
It would be media bliss... what would I pay for this? I would expect to pay about the same as a second-hand PS3 with PlayTV.
How would I expect Apple to achieve this? I would expect that an Apple TV with greater HDD capacity and the TV tuner as an option that, the Tuner could have separate model numbers for different regions and standards... so for the UK, there would be two modules, one for Freeview (DVB-T) and one for Freesat (DVB-S2). Plus a software update. The Tuner modules could even house hardware h.264 encoder so that what's recorded is in an iTunes friendly format (unlike the PS3 which records everything in MPEG2... useless for transferring to a portable device).
The Cherry on the icing would be the ability to rip my DVD collection into iTunes... but that's another discussion.
thanks,
Glyn.
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Indeed, Apple IS a content provider, they also sell hardware! I can imagine that the Apple TV would simply fly off the shelf if this kind of functionality was included. The future success of iTunes depends on popularising Apple hardware within the home, especially when it comes to on-demand video. Being able to record TV is what the majority of people would regard as the main feature of the device. In fact, it would be very much in-line with my perception of Apple's current strategy... demonstrate the key 'selling' feature of the device as the headliner then when the consumer buys the hardware, all the other brilliant functionality presents itself and intices the consumer to 'want more' by imposing a sense of opportunity. Apple TV would reach the masses by headlining "Record TV, then sync straight to your iPhone/iPod". Then Apple could spin up a whole wad of cash by suggesting and selling TV episodes that they've missed, downloaded from iTunes.
I appreciate what the current iteration of Apple TV achieves, and I envy it over my PS3 for its simplicity... Despite not owning one, I think the idea of being able to 'push' and 'sync' content to your device as opposed to streaming it over a network is a much welcomed feature... DLNA has caused nothing but trouble for us and obviously requires another device to be switched on in order to serve up the content. Not very power friendly, reliable or convenient. You can of course copy content to the PS3, but then if you make an edit to a video, photo or playlist you need to manually re-download it again.

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