ET and President Bush made me...

This is a story how ET and President Bush forced me to buy Apple TV.

About 2 weeks ago, Nickelodeon started showing promos for ET. A movie that caused me great horror as a small child, and now has passed that same fear of long necked aliens to my progeny. My 5 year old was minding her own business watching a harmless episode of Sponge Bob, when all the sudden she screams in horror. An ET commercial had just played. This really made me think twice of what is on the TV and how it is effecting my kids. I'm not so prudish as to turn my TV off and force my kids to have to communicate with each other, but I don't want my 5 year old afraid of the "Brain Guy (ET)" anymore either.

All of this coupled with the fact that President Bush gave me some money to "Stimulate" the economy, I decided it was both my duty as a father, and my duty as a American to buy an Apple TV.

I am officially an apple fanboy.

Let us count the ways...

5 ipods (2 shuffles, 2 Nanos, 1 iPhone)
1 MacBook Pro (Borrowed from SunRiver)
and now 1 Apple TV

We are just getting our feet wet with this thing, but so far I am quite happy with the results. I like being able to control all my media in one place, and being for the fact that I can now cancel my Netflix account (I loved netflix, but just could not watch enough movies a month to make it worth the money) and possibly now cancel my TV cable service, I think this will be a very good thing.

So far the Pros and Cons.

Pros

1. Easy to setup, so much so that it was delivered while I was on a business trip in New Orleans, and she was able to set it up with no problems.

2. Interface is beautiful

3. We now have control on what our kids see.

4. I'm cooler than anyone else I know because I own Apple TV and they don't.

Cons

1. Its still a new technology so the movie selection is not huge. Netflix was the same way when we first signed up, now they have every movie you have every heard of, and 1 million you haven't so im not to worried about this.

2. Apple is fighting with NBC at the moment, so the only TV show I care about "the office" is not available. Rumors are that they are close to a resolution, so im keeping my fingers crossed.

PS. Cathryn, I promise to Blog once a week, if you promise to upload photos to flickr at the same rate...Deal?