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Apple iTunes Upsampling Higher Resolution Videos?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the technically-that-is-worse-than-nothing dept.

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."

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  1. What's the point of paying twice? by dohzer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Another reason to buy physical CDs/DVDs rather than downloads.

  2. Re:Not to be an Apple apologist, but... by jcr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...as far as I know, encoding is handled not by Apple, but by the providers.

    That is correct. This has been confirmed to me personally on several occasions by iTMS staff.

    -jcr

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