I'm really hoping they push the state of the art in TV interfaces and menus. All I've used are slow, unorganized, and often barely different from something they could have made in 1995.
While a higher resolution would be nice, I seriously doubt Apple would make anything above 1080p. Broadcast and cable area a mix of 720p and 1080i, possibly 1080p on some special channels. Blu-rays only go up to 1080p.
That leaves Apple to provide the content. At this point it's possible to stream 1080 on a decent connections, although it's compressed more than a Blu-ray. Short of FIOS or Google Gigabit, I don't think anyone could reasonably stream 2k/4k. Downloading such files would take a very long time too.
More importantly, 2k and 4k are what's currently used in theaters. Given the entertainment industry's constant anti-pirate fervor, I don't think there is any way they would cooperate with letting the public easily get such high quality streams. "The piracy risk would kill us".
I remember reading about some company that sold equipment to receive recent (or possibly still running) movies in your home. It was tens of thousands, and each movie was like a rental (at hundreds of dollars, if not more). It was aimed at the super rich who build their own mini-theaters in their mansions.
What are the chances they'd discount that a $6 rental from iTunes?
While a higher resolution would be nice, I seriously doubt Apple would make anything above 1080p. Broadcast and cable area a mix of 720p and 1080i, possibly 1080p on some special channels. Blu-rays only go up to 1080p.
That leaves Apple to provide the content. At this point it's possible to stream 1080 on a decent connections, although it's compressed more than a Blu-ray. Short of FIOS or Google Gigabit, I don't think anyone could reasonably stream 2k/4k. Downloading such files would take a very long time too.
More importantly, 2k and 4k are what's currently used in theaters. Given the entertainment industry's constant anti-pirate fervor, I don't think there is any way they would cooperate with letting the public easily get such high quality streams. "The piracy risk would kill us".
I remember reading about some company that sold equipment to receive recent (or possibly still running) movies in your home. It was tens of thousands, and each movie was like a rental (at hundreds of dollars, if not more). It was aimed at the super rich who build their own mini-theaters in their mansions.
What are the chances they'd discount that a $6 rental from iTunes?