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iTunes Music Store Sells Videos
bonch writes "With the recent release of iTunes 4.8 and its ability to manage and play videos, several users are discovering that iTunes is now selling videos through the online store. One example is the 'Feel Good Inc.' single used in the recent rollerskating iPod ad. The videos are provided in DRM-less .mp4 format encoded in 3ivx D4 4.5 and are available with purchase of the album."
iTMS Australia. Talk about vapourware!
You're confusing QuickTime with QuickTime-based applications. In QuickTime 7 we added new attributes that tell QuickTime applications to take a movie with native size X by Y and play it back at size A by B. But the applications have to set that attribute.
so, uh, why didn't you set this attribute in quicktime 7 player, presumably your flagship quicktime application?
Because that's what the video is. Standard-def TV masters are stored on videotape in anamorphic format. When they're played back on a widescreen set, they're stretched out to about 850 by 480. That's how widescreen SD works.
"standard-def tv masters" are most emphatically not stored on videotape as anamorphic anything. they're stored on videotape, which, the last time i checked, was an analog medium that had a fixed aspect ratio. besides, i don't really remember seeing a whole lot of standard-def tv in widescreen. anyone? anyone ever watch any regular show, on regular tv, that was letterboxed? didn't think so. everything else you said about anamorphic-ness was correct, but still a little strange: quicktime's ability to handle anamorphic video is not new, and isn't really better in qt7--it still sucks. that's why i think you're not who you say you are, because looking at spec sheets and marketing mateirals and lying about them is easy, while anyone who tries to use this stuff knows that it's not all there yet, and presumably anyone who works at apple knows this too.
I don't understand this comment at all. When I said "1080/24p," maybe I should have been more specific. I was referring to video in the 1920-by-1080 format playing back at 24 frames per second.
yes, you're right. most things are shot at 24fps. but, uh, dude? of the major networks, two of them (nbc and cbs) broadcast 1080i and the other two (abc and fox, as well as espn) put out 720p. so "the majority of scripted dramas" are not 1080/24p. why would abc and fox shoot at 1080 when they're going to to have to convert and broadcast at 720? and don't give me this condescending little lecture about pulldown because if you knew anything at all, you'd know that pulldown is not easy--it took a very large update to final cut pro to support the 3:2 pull down from a 24p camera, and it still doesn't always work just right. so, you know, go ahead and do it in realtime, over 54g, with a hardware update to airport express that doesn't quadruple the cost of the unit.
besides, my man, the "film look" comes from shooting at 24fps. that's why it's conveyed so well across regular, crap, 30/60 interlaced NTSC. obviously it's dramatically better when it's end to end, but otherwise blockbuster would've been out of business in six months. you think vhs really handled 24fps? or that they did those transfers by doing anything other than putting a vhs camera in a telecine projection box and hitting go? you're clever, but wrong.
in fact, most high end HD gear puts the "camera end" in whatever mode you want, but leaves the vtr end at 60i. you're throwing around a lot of numbers and specs, but i don't think you're quite up to speed here.
again: fun ride, but i think you might have pushed it just a little far this time.
london is drowning and i live by river
I haven't read any comments on how the Gorillaz are the greatest animated band ever.
Discussing the greatest animated band of all time is like discussing the greatest sexually transmitted disease of all time. It's something of marginal interest which most people will find distasteful.
And seriously, Gorillaz? Were they big in America or something? Because sure as fuck they quickly disappeared into richly deserved obscurity in the UK. We don't really do novelty acts.
This model has been out since August of last year.
The name "iRiver" has been around since 1999, contrasted with iPod's debut of 2001.
You were saying something?
Why do I M2 everything negatively?