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Patents Reveal Clues About Apple's Revolutionary New TV

Late Tuesday afternoon, an unnamed former executive plopped in the lap of Daily Tech with a scoop about what the secretive tech company may be planning for a monumental product launch later this year. "You'll go into an Apple retail store and be able to walk out with a TV," the tipster said. "It's perfect."

Rumors about an Apple television are neither novel nor unreasonable. The Cupertino company has been in the fancy computer display business  for a dozen years now--their Cinema Display was among the first flatscreen monitors available to consumers. However, the debate over whether or not Apple will up the ante and compete in the wall-mounted television market hinges on a simple question: what can Apple do that's new? According to Daily Tech's source, the company can skirt around the competition by including them in the production of a television display. And according to a handful of patents filed by Apple in the past three years, the company can break new ground by completely redefining the purpose of the television in the home. Like they did with the iPhone in 2007, Apple might not try to build a better TV; they might build a different TV, lightyears ahead of anything else on the market. Let's bounce around a few ideas about what that might look like based on Daily Tech's report and recent patent applications.

An Entertainment Nexus

The former Apple executive told Daily Tech that Apple's TV play meant more than a mounting a shiny monitor on the wall. They want to "blow Netflix and all those other guys away" with a cohesive device that will combine the current Apple TV set top box, iTunes capability and an actual display device. Currently, Apple's approach to TV includes plugging a little black box into your existing TV, routing the cable service through it and streaming either Netflix or iTunes through the third party display.

This set up sounds simple enough, but the product hasn't taken off, despite the updated model's drop in size and price. Popular Mechanics said the hamburger-sized device was "improved, still unfinished," when it launched in 2010. The existing Apple TV runs off of a pre-existing and dead simple operating system, and as a result, it lacked the ability to tap into the increasingly rich store of iOS applications. With the recent launch of iOS 5 and iCloud, however, fanboy blog Apple Insider hypothesizes that a new device could resemble a giant iPad in terms of functionality. Table the idea of touchscreen capability, and imagine a big screen device that could run not only iTunes but also news apps, email, a web browser and anything else developers can imagine. (Remember Web TV ?) The new product could do away with the need for an external device and cable subscriptions altogether for TV-watchers interested mainly in shows.

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