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4 edits | reply to Pictor Guy
Re: It's good but not great
said by Pictor Guy  :said by Dogfather :But right now it's like an iPod that ONLY plays Apple protected tracks. You do realize that the iPod and AppleTV will play non-Apple protected tracks right?  You mean like DivX, xvid, AC3 and WMV? Bzzzt, WRONG.
It's plays they very, very few codecs that Apple wants it to play. If you want to play what YOU and everyone BUT teh Steve wants to play, as in, the most popular codecs for downloaded video you'll find, you have to start hacking and patching or reencoding.
That's fine by me, but most people looking at this box will be dissuaded from buying it because of lack of real codec support just like they would be dissuaded from an iPod that wouldn't play MP3s. |
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said by AVonGauss :I think you mean 1080i... A 1080p set has a native resolution of at least 1920x1080, otherwise it's not a 1080p set...  1080i and 1080p have the same resolution. That's what "1080" is...the lines of vertical resolution.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080i
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The point you're missing is that DVR = free and Apple doesn't want you to record someone else's content - they want to become your cable company. Apple's long-term goal I think is to offer people all of their shows for sale ala carte (which doesn't bother me) and instead of channel surfing you'll iTunes Store surf.. |
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The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) recommends that its members use 720p50 with the possibility of 1080i50 on a programme-by-programme basis and 1080p50 as a future option.[2][3][4]
From that article. |
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NOCMan
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Flower Mound, TX | reply to Mike
720p is just fine. |
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NOCMan
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Dont get me started. Some idiot at Best Buy tried selling me gold plated FIBER cables when I grabbed the el-cheapo ones. Said the gold helped the light move.
I install fiber all day long at work. I wanted to beat this guy down. Course I want to do that to most sales people because they usually just bug and lie to customers just to get a sale. Especially when they pull that crap on the elderly. |
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NOCMan
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Flower Mound, TX | reply to Pictor Guy
Surprised people are not suing for false advertising then. |
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Some claimed 1080P sets can display static images at full rez but can't do motion at full rez.
»gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-enterta···3558.php |
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try using Handbrake »www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12987
HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux.
* Supported sources:
o Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (even encrypted)
o PAL or NTSC
o AC-3, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks
* Outputs:
o File format: MP4, AVI or OGM
o Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer encoding)
o Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)
You can copy your dvd'S on put them into your itunes and watch on your apple tv |
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