Not with me.
I love Apple, but there are some things that I just don’t in my life.
I can stream Netflix on my Xbox or Wii, so why would I need this?

I completely disagree. I think Apple has dropped the ball on this one: Who wants to fire up their computer to stream movies, music? What happened to the App Store? The Boxee box will be a far better solution than this, for only $100 more. Even better, I believe, will be Google TV, with access to the Android App Store.

No Netflix in the UK which seems like the kiiler app. That and no way to stream xvid/divx files means it’s a non starter for me and I suspect will remain a hobby product in the UK.

You are completely wrong here. Apple TV will continue to go nowhere. This is a blatant attempt by the guys in Cupertino to reboot a failing hardware line. No 1080p? Forcing the import of my media into iTunes? no Hulu? no external drive support? c’mon. a $99.00 piece of junk is still a piece of junk. WDTV Live, is better at nearly the same price and the Boxee Box will be far better.

I love my iPhone and I love my Mac, but this is NOT a good product.

This is a *huge* disappointment to me. I have a AppleTV 1 with a 500GB external drive with all our music / movies / iTunes bought stuff on it. All of my daughters kids shows are from iTunes, but my Macbook Pro travels with me, so whenever I’m not in the house these boxes wouldn’t have any of that content. Why not make it so that you can use external (or internal drives) on a TimeCapsule or NAS to sync your library too once, and have any number of these devices pull from them from various TVs.

If they’d done that I would have bought 4, now I’m thinking about buying another original AppleTV because it does what I need it to do. When jobs talked about the users “loving them” he was right, but he just took off everything I loved about the one I have for version 2.

I completely agree with Jordan Melville’s comment. This is not a great product. I loved the original Apple TV (I have four in my house), because I could STORE and stream all my content. I have 4TB of music, movies and tv shows which is connected when my laptop is on, but when its off and I go away, all the most popular stuff my family watch is stored on each device.

This new Apple TV is no good for me, so I wont be upgrading. Bit of a disappointment to be honest.

And one other thing. Why have they gone with a black box and a silver remote? Surely they should have updated the silver remote to match the stealth black look of the new machine!!

I want to be sold on the new ATV but something doesn’t quite sit right with me. 99cents just doesn’t seem like a very good deal to me. While ala carte television is an incredible draw, I don’t believe that the current rental model can stand up to services like Hulu+ even with the grand idea of no commercials. Say you watch 5 shows a week. That ends up being $20 a month where with H+ it only ends up being $10 and always 10 even if you watch more shows. Not to mention H+ has got more networks on board. I hate (and will go so far as to say despise) commercials as much as the next person but you cannot argue that H+ not is the better deal. I also think that the movie rentals are too much. I don’t need HD if it’s going to cost me approximately half of what it would cost me to see it in the theatre. Give me SD any day for a normal Blockbuster price and a faster download cause lets face it, most of us don’t have internet connections like Apple does on stage in these events. Lastly, I think they dropped the ball by not revamping the UI. Sure it’s still pretty and intuitive and everything that you would come to expect from Apple but NO APPS? That would make it revolutionary instead of this short sited vision that we have been presented with. They are going to lose to Google or even some of the TV manufacturers who are already putting apps of some sort on their devices. Guess I have to wait until 2012 where they will finally get it right (along with a Verizon iPhone) just in time for the end of the world.

People miss the big picture that what Apple TV can do. When November comes, 4.2 is out. Apple TV will be very useful, because you can watch whatever you have on your iDevice to your TV set. If later, Apple intergrat Page, Number, and Keynote can be view throught Apple TV, that will make any TV into a presentation device.

I view Apple TV as a compaion device to all your Apple’s product.

I think people really miss the point of these announcements. Don’t you believe that Apple would like to release the device everyone wants? The problem with AppleTV is, has been and always will be, the content providers. I think it’s pretty clear from the rumor mill that Apple wanted to offer some kind of subscription model where you could subscribe to just the channels you wanted. Big Media is not willing to risk their cable revenue stream and allow Apple to do this so Apple was forced to play by the same rules as other providers. Apple does not have the same power over video content that they do with music. This device is clearly a stepping stone on the way to an a-la-carte channel model, most like through Apps.

Lots of people have Xboxes, PlayStations and Internet enabled TV’s but do you think they’re the norm on every tv? Clearly not and that’s why there’s a market for this device. It might not do a whole lot more than these other devices but not every TV is connected to an internet enabled device like that. AppleTV makes it cheap and easy to equip just about any TV with those capabilities.

Finally, all the whining about 720p is really out of place. The truth is for today’s bandwidth infrastructure, it’s the right call. Most content providers have settled on 720p as the standard for content delivery. Heck, most of what’s on cable and over the air isn’t even in HD and if it is, it’s most likely 720p. Look at the reality of today’s content market, especially when streaming over broadband. I can’t believe nobody has bitched that it doesn’t support gigabit ethernet either.

It’s a nice device at a good price. Is it what everyone wants, no, but that’s not Apple’s fault, it’s Hollywood’s.

Give it a year and TV will be no longer. This is a dying hobby. Just like the cube

Espn is Disney just like ABC. Now if I could stream sports live, good by Dish!

The idea of paying for “a la carte” TV just doesn’t jive with the normal family life where you plan a budget for the month and then stick with it. Do I want to worry about how much I’ve spent for the month every time I turn it on? If I’ve budgeted $20 for the month, do I need to keep a little notepad by the TV to keep track of what I’ve watched? Contrary to Steve’s claims, I’m not worried about whether its synced or streamed or how its managed. I’m worried about the monthly cost of ownership.

The ATV really needs more than just Netflix to make it attractive (I can already stream that from my Wii). The ATV won’t take off until it adds Hulu or some other “all you can eat” subscription service so people can ditch their cable/uverse/FIOS box!

the fact of the matter is, the future is the Private Cloud. only the techies, and i’m one of them, care to even know how to rip dvd’s, have external hard drives, most people are-what the heck is mkv? folks, it’s simple, we’re the walking 5%, maybe 10%. the rest of them, just want to come home from work and be able to watch a show or movie on their iphone/ipad or in their living room. hit 1-2 button, pay $3, rent a movie and move on. that’s called business, Apple’s smart to go after the 90%, they can’t stay in business and increase shareholder value [the main reason a public company exists, btw] by going after the 5-10%.

the future is diskless, no cd’s, no dvd’s no external hd’s, nothing. we 5-10%’ers will be the ones with 10TB in our basements (i actually have 12TB in my house alone, 6 live and 6 backup)

it’s called change. improvise, overcome, adapt.