Yes , Apple TVofficially debutedin 2007 . And yes , Pippinwas the failed Apple / Bandai gaming console from the early ’ 90s . But did you know there was a place - top box Apple was work on in the later ’ 90 namedPippen ?
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Back in 1996 , when Steve Jobs was still in exile , Apple was partnering with Bell Atlantic ( now Verizon ) to explicate the equipment . The box never saw the lightness of Clarence Day , but grant to Rob Gould , a broadcast diligence veteran who was involved in the project while at Bell Atlantic , it ply a adaptation of MacOS and was intended to pipe streaming video into your TV .
Gould send the pics to a fellow worker , Randall Bennet , who offered the only details about this thing :
When it boots , you see the Mac OS Finder on your TV and the inits start loading on the bottom of the screen . It play video from MPEG1 stream at 1.544 mbps , which actually did n’t look speculative at all in criterion - def .
I ’m pretty sure I would have had a leg 5 Excitement Meltdown if I had know such a twist was in the works back then . [ Randall BennetviaTheNextWeb ]
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