Is Leopard's FrontRow2, AppleTV's Backrow?
June 24, 2007
Brightcove is hosting a plethora of
Leopard demo videos, captured from the latest leopard demo released at WWDC. When we saw this we immediately looked into 'FrontRow2' which is the AppleTV like interface replacing FrontRow packaged within most Intel Macs.
The demos walks us through the TV Shows, Movies, Music, Podcast, and Photo areas of the application. Noticeably the DVD option seems to be missing. Perhaps this was not ready to be released within the Leopard preview. But looking closer, it is our belief that FrontRow2 was brought over from AppleTV.
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About 16 seconds into the video, an Error Message appears:
"There are now photos on your Apple TV. Set up iTunes to sync photos to your Apple TV."
Wait a second... i thought this was on a Mac and not an AppleTV? Whoops... Apple... Whoops... All the rest of the error messages read properly, indicating the lack of music or movies in iTunes.
I would still like to see if those AppleTV hacks will apply to FrontRow2. We've got a gut feeling that they will to some degree.
Labels: FrontRow
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