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What are the benefits of making an actual Apple television over the current "Apple TV"?

Really the only thing I can think of is some kind of integrated iSight camera for "Facetime on your couch". And maybe some noise cancelling microphones for Siri. It could be neat but I probably wouldn't buy one.

All the other stuff like DVRs and whatever can just be done with an upgraded AppleTV puck.

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It would be nice to have one interface that controls everything with Apple's eye for detail. The puck/TV combo today feels kind of like buying a bloatware-filled Windows machine to run OS X in a virtual machine.