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How Apple Could Eclipse the Home Theater Market

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TMelcher

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Anyone else feel like Apple has a lot of wasted potential with Front Row and could really gain a lot by releasing a true Media Center PC? It wouldn't be too hard to modify the Mac Mini to have an internal, integrated-into-Front-Row TV tuner and a larger hard drive (because for a MCPC to be effective, in my opinion, it would need to be upgradeable to at least 300 GB).

They could couple its release with a widescreen video iPod, larger HD Cinema displays, higher-resolution iTunes video downloads, and more full-length movies, and Apple could easily take over the home theater market in a matter of months.
 
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Don't give up on Apple yet. They have made it clear that they are interested in this market and their may be some new stuff coming this week in this area. Apples approach has been a bit different than that of MS, but don't think that they are not working on it.
 
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my guess is that apple will have some sort of media center out before christmas
-chris
 

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