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Listed below are comments made by dickdotcom between Friday, 12th December 2008 and Friday, 12th December 2008.

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Canvas and the connected home 2:20pm on 12 Dec 2008 Surprised no-one's yet mentioned the Apple TV - I could never understand why Steve Jobs described it as a hobby cos it's probably the best bit of kit I've ever bought. Sure it ties me into the iTunes infrastructure, but that's not a problem as with Elgato's EyeTV and Turbo 264 encoder on the upstairs desktop, TV and (ahem) 'other sources of content' are easily available ...

The Apple TV user interface is a dream, it does optical sound out and hdmi, so tie it in with Arcam AV receiver, HDTV and Linn surround speakers .... and all I need now is a replacement sofa.

I have V+ for iPlayer ... and internet browsing via an old laptop ...

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