What is Apple TV?

Question

What is an Apple TV, and what exactly does it do? Is it like TiVo?

Answer 1

my personal fav - it streams all your music to your TV/stereo - where you can use your TV much like your ITunes interface w/ remote...AppleTV is killer...still to this day I don't understand why it hasn't blown up...

Answer 2

It let's you rent videos off of itunes and watch them on your TV.

No, it's not like TiVo.

Answer 3

It is a hard drive that also has a wireless LAN (802.11) and wired ethernet that lets you show videos from iTunes in your computer. That can be video you purchased from iTunes online, videos you rent from iTunes online, music videos from iTunes online - or your own homemade videos that you import to iTunes in your computer. The AppleTV box connects to your HDTV with HDMI cable so the quality is very good (especially with the newer titles from iTunes that are higher quality that the first bunch of video they posted for sale). Also, if you have a hidef camcorder, you can play your edited highdef video without using the camcorder as the playback. AppleTV does not get content directly from broadcast, cable or satellite transmissions.

TiVO is a Digital Video Recording device that gets video content directly from broadcast, cable or satellite transmissions - and cannot use iTunes content.