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Two exclusives in one day from Engadget and this one may spread around even more since it's about Apple. Okay, so we know that Apple and Google are rivals and they'll be meeting once again - this time in the TV market. Google will have their own Google TV and Apple will be revamping the Apple TV. We've heard about this for a while and thanks to new information we now know a bit more of what will be going on.

Engadget is reporting that Apple will be renaming Apple TV to iTV and it'll cost you $99 for the set top box. Apparently, inside you'll find specs similar to the iPhone 4 (A4 CPU and 16GB of internal storage) and will come with iTunes new streaming services along with the App Store which makes everything better. All of these specs have actually been rumoured since May so none of this should be surprising so far. Sadly, iTV won't be sporting 1080p (Full HD) playback, so you'll be stuck with 720p playback. Of course, the second iteration of iTV should have 1080p playback...

Update: According to Gizmodo, Apple has an event coming in mid-September which could be the iPod refresh and could also be where they announce iTV.

[Engadget]