Gracing the cover of the February 1994 issue of Macworld, this slick-looking machine turned the heads of many Mac users when it was introduced. Released in October of 1993, the Mac TV was the first all-black Mac, but more importantly the first Mac to display a TV/VCR signal. With its NTSC TV Tuner Card (only NTSC was supported, therefore it wasn't sold internationally) this LC 5xx-style machine could switch from doing your dull work to broadcasting your favorite network or cable channels with a single keystroke. It even came with a cool looking black remote control that could be used for both the TV and the CD player. It could also capture single frames of whatever you're watching and save it as PICT files. You'd think this should've been a popular machine when it was released with all of these features. Unfortunately, that's not the way it happened. The Mac TV also had many drawbacks. First, you couldn't capture a movie or TV scene to be saved in QuickTime format. Nor could you watch TV in a small window while you did your work (though you could hear the TV while you worked). It's expansion options were slim, holding only 8 MB of RAM, and a sole PDS slot. It was also very scarce, selling in only some 250 stores. Because of this, the highly touted machine died quitely 5 months after its release. Sadly, it is yet another example of good, practical technology that just wasn't sold correctly. On the bright side, the Mac TV laid a foundation for future AV-capable Macs. The shortcomings were later looked at and fixed in the future AV Macs and the Apple TV/VI System.