$75 Refurb Apple TV pushes me off the fence...

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sekker wrote:
Thinking refurb at $49, new at $69

Gotta love the dreamers.

You should write a note to Tim Cook.

Competition, though, may lead it another tiny notch lower in price in next 24 months.

Since Apple sells the remote for $19, I don't see how not including it would drop the price by $50 (unless you were talking about the refurb at $49).
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Roughly $50 below the standard $99 retail price, from top price, to bottom price, was what I meant.

Though, unless Apple sees the ATV as a loser and looks for ways to dump it, I don't see Apple doing gray-maket tricks like excluding key accessory (only a minority of users would tolerate trying to set one up without an included remote) and offloading it at giveaway prices. Apple likes money. And the ATV is modestly successful.

[sekker]

I doubt Apple will try to compete on price, but I thought it interesting to speculate how many more ATVs they'd sell at a mythical $49 price point.

The ATV is one of the few Apple products where I think Apple makes very little money on hardware. Instead, a $49 device would have to be subsidized by increased sales of on-demand movies or from services like Netflix.

I also wanted to point out that you really don't need the remote, and that the ATV works great with essentially all modern TV remotes.

[Harbourmaster]

silvarios wrote:
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with free shipping to your local Apple store for pickup. That was enough to tip the scales for the Apple TV for me.

I'm confused. Weren't you looking for a device that could stream media from folders on a server, instead of through iTunes? Since the Apple TV 3 doesn't really support this option (some apps on iOS might support this and AirPlay), did you change your mind on content streaming with iTunes?

If so, the Apple TV isn't a bad bet at this price. I'd probably prefer the Roku 3 for my needs, but the Apple TV has its strengths.
Yes I was... but since my wife is the primary user of the television it was decided that simpler is better.... so everything will be going into the iTunes library...

[silvarios]

Hope everything works well. The Apple TV was decent enough when I used one, as long as you understand its limitations.