Apple TV?

With the unveiling of Windows XP Media Center Edition and Sony , Gateway , and others labor their PCs as digital home amusement hub , Michael Rogers of Newsweek marvel whether its time for Apple to plunge in and add together television receiver radio set , distant control , and TiVo - like transcription capability to the Mac :

From my yr of cover Steve Jobs , I suspect that he ’s likely not a bounteous television devotee . And of form one of the grand and grave thing about Apple is that Steve ’s personal likes and dislike be given powerfully to color their products . Nonetheless , permit ’s hope that Apple has a smart , elegant solution under way of life for view and tape sheer old television , because even if it only gets used for “ American Idol , ” it ’s still a key to the peck market .

I would n’t maintain your breathing spell waitress for this to happen , but it would n’t be too shocking to see Apple get cozier with TiVo , which already declare oneself Rendezvous , Apple ’s new networking banner for link up twist mechanically , on some of its digital video recording machine .