Basically it is this little box attached to your HDTV. Quite similar to Xbox but it doesn’t play games =[

It is “mostly” internet. You need to have a High Speed Internet Access to benefit from the Apple TV. It doesn’t have internal hard disk storage but it can play videos from your PC or iDevices (iPhone, iPod, iPad) through the feature called AirPlay. You can rent HD movies ($4.99) and TV Shows ($0.99) from the iTunes Store which is also accessible from the Apple TV.

Although the interface doesn’t look much like the one you see on your iPhone or iPad; Apple TV runs iOS and it does come with all the apps like Youtube, Flickr etc.

What’s Inside The Box?

• Apple TV
• Power Cable
• Remote Controller (it can be used to control iTunes on the Mac as well)
• Setup Guides

What Can It Do?

• Rent TV Shows / Movies (in Standard or High Definition)
• Use NetFlix
• Watch Photos From Flickr
• Watch content from your PC / Mac through iTunes
• Watch content from iDevices through AirPlay

Around the back there’s an Ethernet port, an HDMI port (HDMI cable is not included in the package), power source port, optical audio and micro USB jack. It has built in Wifi so you don’t really need that Ethernet port anyways, although some may prefer connecting Ethernet port for greater internet speed.

Overall, Apple TV is an inexpensive device; a cool combination of hardware and software that is capable of connecting your TV to your personal computers.

You can check out the unboxing video right here:

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oHMxYso9b0

One of the Sexiest BD Players in the Market

Some BD players can also stream video from the Internet and provides instant access to millions of movie clips or even full movie from the World Wide Web. Some of the services that are well known are Netflix and Vudu.

The latest 3D capable players will allow you to watch upcoming 3D movies; perfect for your BD player and that new 3DTV you’ve just gotten.

Standard DVD players are still in the market and widely available. Some updates and additional features like ‘progressive-scan’ have been applied into them however they are no match for the true experience of watching High Definition videos with Blu-Ray Technology.

Portable Blu-ray Players allow you to watch BD movies anywhere you go with crystal crisps images of course, and some of the models come with LED screen display.

Blu-ray discs have the highest-resolution (1080p) available, and the prices have been dropping lately as the manufacturers are battling for the market share. These High Definition movie players are slowly gaining the market share and hopefully in the near future, it will be able to replace DVDs since we have been in the DVD-era for way too long.

LCD TV, Plasma TV & LED TV are legends, I think they’re going to be replaced a little too soon with what we call 3D HDTV

Yes, 3DTV was unveiled at the CES just couple of hours ago and I’ve read some articles about it, those tech writers are fast no doubt about that.

This revolutionary TV was unveiled by some of the biggest names in the industry Samsung, Sony, Sharp and Toshiba.

3D glasses which comes together with the TV (yes, it still needs 3D glasses) are battery-powered complete with LCD lenses that quickly open and shut in sync with the blinking left-and-right images on the HDTV screen. (Well, that’s something new) The effect is pretty similar to what you see in a theater.

Is it any good? Well the 3D image on the TV does seem to stretch behind the screen as reported by Ben Patterson from Yahoo!

However according to Ben Patterson, there are some flaws that could be a little problem about this new TV technology

Glare

Some HDTV screens are glossy and this actually affect the 3D experience and you can’t imagine how annoying the glare is. Of course you’ll want to have your 3D TV in a darkened room, that being said; this is not likely something that you would set in the living room. Lightning conditions is important, otherwise you won’t get the best out of your new 3D TV system.

Flicker

The 3D TV system that includes HDTV and the active-shutter 3D glasses are made to have refresh rates blazingly fast you won’t notice any flicker at all. However mostly during bright scenes from a movie there is a moment when you will slightly see distracting flickers.

Weird-looking 3D

This could be one of the biggest issues for the upcoming 3D TV networks. While the 3D trailers of “Avatar” looks blatantly amazing and realistic some of the clips during the 3D TV previews were not. The effect looks simply weird. This issue actually has more to do with the sources or the videos that were playing and not the TV set.

2D-to-3D conversion

The 3D TV works I believe is by turning 2D images into 3D images on the fly. Some models of the 3DTVs are promising like Samsung and Toshiba made a good job on this for sure. The effect looks fair, it’s not great. Watching soccer math 3D doesn’t look like what you can imagine; it’s pretty fair or worth watching it with 3D glasses on. You’ll get some kind of new experience. Remember some clips might be more complex than another, don’t expect the machine to turn Star Wars movies to 3D on the fly like it did with other clips.

Pricey 3D glasses

The 3D glasses cost somewhere in the $100 range, and there’re only two being given with every brand new set of 3DTV purchase. Sony has committed two pairs of 3D glasses for its TV models while Panasonic will only give you a pair. If you’re having thoughts about having a 3D TV party with, say dozen of friends, that’s $1200 worth of 3D glasses! I bet you can get another new set of 3DTV with that price.