{"id":212,"date":"2006-01-10T07:57:30","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T14:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=212"},"modified":"2006-01-10T07:57:30","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T14:57:30","slug":"tvpod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"tvPod"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason O’Grady doubles down<\/a> on his prediction that Apple will today unveil two big-ass Macintosh high-definition television sets, running OS X on a dual-core Intel processor, complete with a massive hard drive, an iPod dock, bluetooth, wi-fi, and an Apple DVR system.<\/p>\n

It’s a terrific pre-Macworld rumor, for two reasons. First, it’s ludicrous. Second, it seems, well, Steve-Jobs-ish. Think about it. Up to now, the merger of TVs and computers has been a geek hack – you have to bring a computer into your living room and plug your TV into it and deal with all sorts of ugly configuration hassles. Who needs it? Make them a single device, and the hassles go away. You get a TV-Tivo-Computer with an easy interface for managing your media and a direct line into Apple’s iTunes store for downloading video and tunes. You get the TV of the future.<\/p>\n

Sure, it’s crazy. But so was the iPod.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: At the last moment, O’Grady wusses out<\/a>. If you can’t take the heat, get out of the reality distortion field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason O’Grady doubles down on his prediction that Apple will today unveil two big-ass Macintosh high-definition television sets, running OS X on a dual-core Intel processor, complete with a massive hard drive, an iPod dock, bluetooth, wi-fi, and an Apple DVR system. It’s a terrific pre-Macworld rumor, for two reasons. First, it’s ludicrous. Second, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}