Apple iTunes Upsampling Higher Resolution Videos?

An anonymous reader writes "Engadget has a revealing look at Apple upsampling some of their new 640x480 videos from lower quality 320x240 videos. In fact, their upsampling appears to produce lower quality videos than quickly upsampling yourself with Quicktime. The worst part may be that Apple is charging people to download these new higher resolution videos even if they've already purchased the original, so people are essentially paying for nothing."

Comments

Re:What are the terms of use for videos on iTMS

[mei_mei_mei]

This is a restriction accepted by Apple from the video owners, and was pretty much the only way they could sell and make money from video on the iTunes Store at all.

Re:Upsampling

[DanielNS84]

Assumptions are evil! What if this person has a linux machine or an older windows machine and can't get Apple's piece of shit iTunes software to work? What if she's miles from the nearest library with no car and no friends to borrow a CD from? What if she lives in a 3rd world country and bought an iPod off a street vendor? What if being trendy doesn't matter when your battery dies permanently after only 2 days usage and your hold button stops functioning in the on position? What if you get that stupid fucking frowny face on your LCD and Apple holds your iPod for 3 months because they're the only people who can repair it? What if the fucking iPod was the lowest quality mp3 player on the market today? What if I'm a Geek Squad repair tech and we split into 2 sections because we needed an entire section alone for just taking in iPods? What if the iPod was the most checked in item for repairs by ten fold even though it isn't our highest selling item? What if Apple fanboys posted on Slashdot? Think about it...