I'm speaking of the rumored spec, not our line capability bro. I want that option of being able to do 1080p, even though the current iTunes HD offerings are only 720p in nature. Reason being, I get my content not from the net all the time, and these contents are 1080p in nature. For example, my newly acquired Panasonic HDC-HS700 camcorder records exclusively in 1080-flavours be it the 1080i or 1080p. Down-speccing the rumored new Apple TV to 720p only means I have to downsample the vacation footages to 720p, thus making my acquisition of that 1080p camcorder kinda redundant.

Steve likes to cover all the necessary bases, but I'm not sure my inclination towards 1080p is shared by him as well. He likes talking about the 326ppi of the Retina Display being "comfortably over" the 300ppi limit of human retinas, but some of his preferences on other devices are according to what he perceives as "what he thinks the general public wants" and not what "actually" the public wants. Case in point? Blu-ray. If he's the man of "options", he's be allowing Blu-ray as CTO long time ago into the MBP lineup.

In any case, it depends on what the rumored new AppleTV/iTV spec is gonna be. If it is a down-specs but with other perks like the ability to install apps from AppStore, I'm gonna see if the benefit outweigh the downgrade in specs. If the pricetag sticks at USD99, it shouldn't be much of a decision, I'd probably get one, but only one. If they maintain the 1080p capability, then all three of my current AppleTVs will get replaced.