Macworld:
What many have clamored for is the device that has the capabilities of a Mac mini media center, but without the accompanying complications. An Apple TV that plays and digitizes DVDs (and plays Blu-Ray discs), plays and records high-definition TV, streams Web content including Hulu, NetFlix, Rhapsody, Napster, Pandora, and Last.fm; provides access to iTunes libraries local and remote; and allows for rental and purchase from the iTunes Store as well as outlets such as Amazon.com. In short, the one-stop media box.
And, regrettably, that device is never, ever going to come from Apple (or anyone else, for that matter).
Not because Apple wouldn’t be interested in making such a thing, but because the kind of cooperation and good will necessary to pull it off simply doesn’t exist. Gather together the executives necessary to produce this one-stop box and there will be blood.
It’s sad, really. The Apple TV could be awesome, but as it stands right now, it’s really, really lame.