Apple iTV rumors send competitors scrambling...to copy Apple.

[JackBurton]

Yeah, that's what I thought. You had nothing.

 

[Doppel]

Apple won't make a tv, they had the apple tv. Everything they want to do could be done with ate 3. Also most people in the past few years went flat screen and won't be replacing it soon. A tv is merely a monitor these days so an apple branded tv makes no sense in the world regardless of what somebody scouring the patent office thinks they have found.

I agree with above about on demand current premium content.

 

[JSt0rm]

Apple won't make a tv, they had the apple tv. Everything they want to do could be done with ate 3. Also most people in the past few years went flat screen and won't be replacing it soon. A tv is merely a monitor these days so an apple branded tv makes no sense in the world regardless of what somebody scouring the patent office thinks they have found.

I agree with above about on demand current premium content.

from mac rumors

Forbes reports on a new research note from Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair suggesting that Apple may bring some aspects of its rumored television set to the iMac with a revision in the first half of next year.Blair envisions the company pushing the largest screen sizes of the iMac toward the TV market by integrating Apple TV and iCloud features into a slimmer all-in-one PC with TV capabilities.

“We think this makes sense because while we typically think about the newest TV’s hanging on the wall in large form factors, Apple could effectively start with what they already have on the manufacturing line and slowly push their offering from 27 inches and scale up from there to 32 inches and then move on to the 42, 50 and 55 inch market,” he writes. “In short, we believe the initial Apple TV is their iMac computer that can function as a TV, over the iCloud platform.”
While the full context of the claim is not included in the Forbes report, the claim is referred to as "speculation" on Blair's part and no specific evidence to support it is offered.

 

[Doppel]

from mac rumors

Forbes reports on a new research note from Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair suggesting that Apple may bring some aspects of its rumored television set to the iMac with a revision in the first half of next year.Blair envisions the company pushing the largest screen sizes of the iMac toward the TV market by integrating Apple TV and iCloud features into a slimmer all-in-one PC with TV capabilities.

“We think this makes sense because while we typically think about the newest TV’s hanging on the wall in large form factors, Apple could effectively start with what they already have on the manufacturing line and slowly push their offering from 27 inches and scale up from there to 32 inches and then move on to the 42, 50 and 55 inch market,” he writes. “In short, we believe the initial Apple TV is their iMac computer that can function as a TV, over the iCloud platform.”
While the full context of the claim is not included in the Forbes report, the claim is referred to as "speculation" on Blair's part and no specific evidence to support it is offered.

Thanks for link. I don't see how it would be different than a small-screen iMac just mirroring to the existing large TV, though...