Apple Movie Junkie

Now that the dust has settled and you’ve read everyone (Engadget, Gizmodo, Tech Crunch) and their mothers take on the new Apple TV, I thought I’d give my two cents for what its worth. Being an original day one Apple TV owner the news for me today was all about rentals and streaming. Whether it be from our iTunes library, or from Netflix, we’re going to be streaming or renting from here on out. Lets face it, unless Apple introduced a terabyte version of the Apple TV, no form of internal storage would have been enough space. Users would of found a way to fill it up. The content now stays where it most likely originated, on your desktop or laptop computer.
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Via Gizmodo and the N.Y. Times.

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In the Living Room, Hooked on Pay TV

These are confusing times in the living room. The proliferation of Internet video has led to much talk of “cord-cutting” — a term that has come to mean canceling traditional pay TV and replacing it with programming from a grab bag of online sources.

But so far Americans are not doing this in any meaningful numbers. “Nor is there any evidence of it emerging in the near future,” said Bruce Leichtman, the president of Leichtman Research Group, which studies consumer media habits.

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I’ve considered dumping my cable provider many times, in particular my crappy Cox service in San Diego, but sports is the hold up for me. Cox just happens to hold the exclusive right to all San Diego Padres games as well.

Add one more voice to the pool of Apple TV predictions, all though I might add why not include an embedded webcam for Facetime over TV.

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Why will this change everything?

• iOS TV Applications: Expect to see an iPhone/Pad like marketplace for television applications. Video sharing/streaming/recording apps, interactive news apps, and of course games.

•The iPad will turn into one big badass remote control: The iPad will be the preferred input device for the iTV. You’ll be able to editing videos, control games, and extend the interactive television experience. Imagine watching monday night football on the TV while viewing/exploring other camera angles on the iPad.

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Once we saw Cinemira take it’s first breath in more then a week we noticed a load of notifications go out. If you receive an outdated movie notification tonight we apologize, we don’t intend for this type of outage to happen again, but this is the web.

I want to thank everyone for their patience while we resuscitated our web app, with a special thanks to our genius in his dungeon Mr.Miles. Please enjoy Cinemira once again.

Dear Site Visitors,

To say this outage has been an embarrassment would be an understatement. Yes this is a beta service which we charge no fee to use, but it’s still a bothersome problem for all concerned non the less. Whats the point of offering a service when it’s not reliable. Chalk this up to one more learning experience for a small team.

In the mean time, until we can get Cinemira fully armed and operational again I will be posting updates old school until that is no longer needed.

Again sorry for the inconvenience.

Finding a movie reviewer for AMJ has been a long time coming but I think we’ve found our man. Please welcome Apple Movie Junkie’s newest contributor and official movie reviewer Evan Buxton. Evan’s review style is both fun yet informative. We aren’t trying to be the next Slash Film, we’re just trying pass on some useful information to the AMJ readers and have fun at the same time.

The first review out of the blocks from Evan will be Crazy Heart, a new addition to the iTunes Store which stars Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges. Keep your eyes out for that later this morning.

Welcome aboard Evan!