{"id":174,"date":"2011-12-02T18:07:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T18:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xctechs.info\/vlogs\/?p=174"},"modified":"2011-12-02T18:07:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T18:07:36","slug":"rumor-new-apple-tv-on-the-way-suggests-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: New Apple TV on the way, suggests TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/25662583@N07\/6442231827\/\" title=\"atv2 by XCTEchs, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7165\/6442231827_02c5a21608.jpg\" alt=\"atv2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our sister blog TechCrunch just posted a rumor suggesting that the current Apple TV might be replaced with a newer model in the very near future.<\/p>\n<p>As Matt Burns at TechCrunch reports, Amazon and Best Buy are now selling the second-generation Apple TV for $89, one full Hamilton less than the MSRP. Amazon has also marked the product name with the number &#8220;2010&#8221; in parentheses, perhaps suggesting that there will be a 2011 or 2012 edition rolling out soon.<\/p>\n<p>The existing model has been around since September 1, 2010, and a new device might very well replace the single-core A4 with a dual-core A5. That bump would help 1080p playback and smooth out the UI on the Apple TV.<\/p>\n<p>Burns believes that if a new Apple TV is on the way, it would be likely to hit the market before the holiday buying binge starts &#8212; perhaps as soon as the next few days. If not, a refresh wouldn&#8217;t be likely until 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our sister blog TechCrunch just posted a rumor suggesting that the current Apple TV might be replaced with a newer model in the very near future. As Matt Burns at TechCrunch reports, Amazon and Best Buy are now selling the second-generation Apple TV for $89, one full Hamilton less than the MSRP. Amazon has also &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[763],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","tag-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}