No plans to add video recording features to Mac mini
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Mar 3, 2006 at 1:30pm
TiVo, El gato and others can breath easy. Apple has no plans to add video recording functionality to the Mac mini, according to a USA Today article.
Adding video recording functionality would have made the Mac Mini too complicated, says Phil Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing. “We’re not trying to replace the TiVo,” he adds. “This is about taking the media from your computer and accessing it via the TV.”
To run media from other computers using the Mac mini, those computers must store music, videos and TV shows in Apple’s iTunes software. If PC users listen to music in, say, Musicmatch or RealPlayer, the Mac Mini won’t be able to find the songs, USA Today notes.
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
J. Scott Anderson Says:
I seem to recall a story on MN (Macsimum News) regarding denials from Apple and reality. If I recall correctly the idea for the story started out when Apple denied any intention of playing in the sub-$500 computer market, then came the Mac mini. Hmmmm…
Posted on March 03, 2006