Best Buy has sent out a customer survey asking customers about their opinions of a potential Apple iTV or HDTV and whether they would be interested in purchasing one. The description of the Apple HDTV Best Buy gives seems to be a combination of the current Apple TV and a large-screen television.

Sure, Apple has the AppleTV, but what you really want is a full fledged desktop on your TV; am I right? Thanks to Flickr user Stellarola, we’ve got an interesting screen capture from the latest build of Snow Leopard. The image you see above seems to indicate that Apple will be supporting HDTV screen sizes in the Display portion of System Preferences.

They’ve been around for a while, and they just aren’t going away. I’m speaking, of course, about the AppleTV rumors. As in Apple actual-TV.

Since Apple first put out the AppleTV, there have been those suggesting that it is only an intermediary measure for bridging media to the computer. Now, once again, rumors are kicking up that Apple will be releasing a TV that has an AppleTV built into it. I don’t get it.

What benefits would an Apple HDTV hold other than lack of a couple wires stringing the AppleTV to your TV set? If we take the Apple Cinema Displays as an example of what the Apple HDTV roadmap might look like, given their similarities as products, we might see complete non-updates for years on end.

The person spouting the rumors now is Jason Calacanis, in a CNet.uk interview. Unless Apple adds functionality that couldn’t exist in the AppleTV box now, I see no logical reason why they would sell a >$1000 TV that can do the same thing as a $200 AppleTV plus a TV of your choice.