Apple now offer a battery replacement service, which if you can get to an Apple Store (admittedly not everyone can) doesn't cost much more than replacing the fancypants lithium batteries in the other mp3 devices that use them.
They'd be mad to fiddle with the Nano lineup right now.
Whatever this announcement is later today, if it's something iPod, it'll be an update for either the Shuffle (which hasn't had a single change since launch) or the Photo (or just 'iPod' as they call it since killing the black-and-white fullsize).
I don't think they do plan on us spending half a day encoding a DVD to h.264. I think they plan on letting us download a pre-encoded TV programme, and charging us for the privelege.
Sure, it's entirely possible that Apple will let us make our own. But I don't think they plan on passing up the opportunity to flog us stuff that saves us the bother.
Video on an iPod gets a lot of criticism as an idea (I've made a fair bit myself, apart from anything), but part of the problem is that people hear "Video iPod", but they're just thinking "iPod that can play films".
The VidPod makes sense, but only if you think beyond there. Right now, the iPod range has around 15 hours of battery when it's just playing music - you're going to get substantially less if you're decoding and displaying video. So 2 hour movies on a tiny screen when the battery is going to cave after a couple of them is indeed dumb.
But there's more to video than movies. We keep hearing rumours that the BBC are somehow involved in today's announcement, and that means TV footage. The News as a video podcast? Last night's Top Gear? How about having individual receipes from cookery shows selectable?
The broadcast flag won't do a thing to break your TV. Your TV shouldn't have to care one way or the other about the thing.
What this breaks is your PVR, by making it unlawful for Best Buy (or whoever) to sell you one that will record something they don't want you to. That doesn't stop you watching TV.
So they're not killing your home entertainment centre per se, just transporting it back to those lovely 1970s, where video recorders don't exist and the only way to watch something is to do so when they want to broadcast it. Which is pretty rubbish, admittedly.
So to avoid the fact that you've demonstrated your inability to read simple (though upside-down) text, you're pretending that Ars published that article AFTER people started complaining about the screens, not before?
I'm too used to the 4Gb of space on my iPod Mini to go for anything much smaller now. 4x1Gb Memory Stick Duos actually cost MORE than a Nano. So I'd be up before I even started on buying the PSP itself.
I thought the iPod Mini was small enough, too. Apple disagreed, and promptly sold about 17 shedloads of Nanos.
Just because the SP was 'small enough' for you, doesn't mean that making it even smaller is a waste of time. Micro fits in my pocket. SP doesn't. It's that simple for me, really.
Shift and iTunes solves the problem just fine. That's how come I've got the latest Springsteen on my iPod.
Actually, I used Microsoft's TweakUI to switch off Autorun capability on my CDRW drive permanently. It's still on for the DVD writer, so if I'm so lazy I can't be bothered to run things manually I stick them in there.
The UK release is on two seperate discs, and the CD version went into iTunes on my PC just fine. If you're really stuck and don't want to just rip the 2.0 PCM audio files out of the DVD, then at a pinch you could try to get that release instead.
My guess is that the slot-loading drive on the Mac is just one of the many, many slot-loaders out there that can't cope with the DualDisc format.
Actually, this is all because Sony are scared of what might happen if they came out and told people what happens if you stick the disc in the player with the shift key held down (or just turn off autorun in Tweakui).
I've got a bunch of these messed-up "copy prevented" discs at home. Not one of them has caused my PC to even think particularly hard about what to do for the above reason.
So Sony, of all people, are telling me that if I want to listen to the music on my iPod, I should stay the fuck away from rubbish Vaio boxes and buy an iMac?
The idea is that they can sell these DRM'd flash discs preloaded with music secured on them. With luck, and a proliferation of devices that support the format, they might take off as successfully as pre-recorded Minidiscs did.
Sorry, I think I must have missed the part where the record industry can churn out preloaded 128Mb customised flash cards for around the same price as manufacturing a CD. What's the point of this thing otherwise?
I'm in the same boat. I just recently did the necessary to my PS2 to play import titles, so I've all of a sudden got access to loads of great games like Katamari Damacy, Psyvariar 2 and Armored Core 9. There's no way I'm going to the next generation for a good year at least.
Is that the one that thought it would be a good idea to use the Gauntlet brand, despite the press demo only ever managing about 6 enemies onscreen at once?
Well done, Romero. Well done indeed. Really captured the essence, there.
One of the guys at work brought his in because he didn't want it any more (replaced it with something smaller that still did the job). It's huge, but more importantly to me it weighs an absolute ton! There's no way I'd want something that heavy hanging on to the motherboard like that; I'd be too worried about it stressing the material to damaging point.
In fact, it's so heavy I'd be worried about the damage it could do to all the AGP and PCI cards on the way down as it broke off, too.
Fair enough - we don't tend to lose power very often at all. I was mainly thinking that a power outage was a good, easily visible message wherever you are that grabbing a radio and finding out what happened was a good idea. It's not like I don't already have about 10 different radio-capable devices around the place, so fitting one into my iPod as well seems a touch pointless to me.
Both formats are all about lock-in, you just choose whether you'd rather be locked into Apple or Microsoft. Personally, I say boo to both and just buy the CD for roughly the same price. That way I get proper artwork, a case and no lossy compression as a bonus, too.
Microsoft keep plugging away with this argument that "most" suppliers use WMA, while completely ignoring the fact that iTunes Music Store is massively more popular than all of them put together.
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Apple now offer a battery replacement service, which if you can get to an Apple Store (admittedly not everyone can) doesn't cost much more than replacing the fancypants lithium batteries in the other mp3 devices that use them.
They'd be mad to fiddle with the Nano lineup right now.
Whatever this announcement is later today, if it's something iPod, it'll be an update for either the Shuffle (which hasn't had a single change since launch) or the Photo (or just 'iPod' as they call it since killing the black-and-white fullsize).
One acronym: iTMS.
I don't think they do plan on us spending half a day encoding a DVD to h.264. I think they plan on letting us download a pre-encoded TV programme, and charging us for the privelege.
Sure, it's entirely possible that Apple will let us make our own. But I don't think they plan on passing up the opportunity to flog us stuff that saves us the bother.
Video on an iPod gets a lot of criticism as an idea (I've made a fair bit myself, apart from anything), but part of the problem is that people hear "Video iPod", but they're just thinking "iPod that can play films".
The VidPod makes sense, but only if you think beyond there. Right now, the iPod range has around 15 hours of battery when it's just playing music - you're going to get substantially less if you're decoding and displaying video. So 2 hour movies on a tiny screen when the battery is going to cave after a couple of them is indeed dumb.
But there's more to video than movies. We keep hearing rumours that the BBC are somehow involved in today's announcement, and that means TV footage. The News as a video podcast? Last night's Top Gear? How about having individual receipes from cookery shows selectable?
The broadcast flag won't do a thing to break your TV. Your TV shouldn't have to care one way or the other about the thing.
What this breaks is your PVR, by making it unlawful for Best Buy (or whoever) to sell you one that will record something they don't want you to. That doesn't stop you watching TV.
So they're not killing your home entertainment centre per se, just transporting it back to those lovely 1970s, where video recorders don't exist and the only way to watch something is to do so when they want to broadcast it. Which is pretty rubbish, admittedly.
So to avoid the fact that you've demonstrated your inability to read simple (though upside-down) text, you're pretending that Ars published that article AFTER people started complaining about the screens, not before?
Clever.
I'm too used to the 4Gb of space on my iPod Mini to go for anything much smaller now. 4x1Gb Memory Stick Duos actually cost MORE than a Nano. So I'd be up before I even started on buying the PSP itself.
I thought the iPod Mini was small enough, too. Apple disagreed, and promptly sold about 17 shedloads of Nanos.
Just because the SP was 'small enough' for you, doesn't mean that making it even smaller is a waste of time. Micro fits in my pocket. SP doesn't. It's that simple for me, really.
Are you still breaking the DMCA just because you run OSX or turn off Autoplay, then?
Shift and iTunes solves the problem just fine. That's how come I've got the latest Springsteen on my iPod.
Actually, I used Microsoft's TweakUI to switch off Autorun capability on my CDRW drive permanently. It's still on for the DVD writer, so if I'm so lazy I can't be bothered to run things manually I stick them in there.
The UK release is on two seperate discs, and the CD version went into iTunes on my PC just fine. If you're really stuck and don't want to just rip the 2.0 PCM audio files out of the DVD, then at a pinch you could try to get that release instead.
My guess is that the slot-loading drive on the Mac is just one of the many, many slot-loaders out there that can't cope with the DualDisc format.
Actually, this is all because Sony are scared of what might happen if they came out and told people what happens if you stick the disc in the player with the shift key held down (or just turn off autorun in Tweakui).
I've got a bunch of these messed-up "copy prevented" discs at home. Not one of them has caused my PC to even think particularly hard about what to do for the above reason.
So Sony, of all people, are telling me that if I want to listen to the music on my iPod, I should stay the fuck away from rubbish Vaio boxes and buy an iMac?
Nice one.
Like you, I can find precisely zero evidence that Metro3D the game actually exists - they're a publisher of PS2 budget titles in the UK.
Odd.
Yes, he's using the IMDb as a source of how much the general public said they liked films. Not how good films were on any real level.
s/terrorists/random criminals. Most of Abu Ghraib was just your common or garden jail inmate.
The idea is that they can sell these DRM'd flash discs preloaded with music secured on them. With luck, and a proliferation of devices that support the format, they might take off as successfully as pre-recorded Minidiscs did.
Oh, wait...
Sorry, I think I must have missed the part where the record industry can churn out preloaded 128Mb customised flash cards for around the same price as manufacturing a CD. What's the point of this thing otherwise?
I'm sorry, I thought you had used this Internet thing before. We don't do content, just wildly overblown opinion and flash graphics.
Hang on a second. I got Nero bundled with my DVD writer too. It was even a special OEM version tied to that writer.
What's wrong with hardware coming with appropriate software?
I'm in the same boat. I just recently did the necessary to my PS2 to play import titles, so I've all of a sudden got access to loads of great games like Katamari Damacy, Psyvariar 2 and Armored Core 9. There's no way I'm going to the next generation for a good year at least.
Is that the one that thought it would be a good idea to use the Gauntlet brand, despite the press demo only ever managing about 6 enemies onscreen at once?
Well done, Romero. Well done indeed. Really captured the essence, there.
One of the guys at work brought his in because he didn't want it any more (replaced it with something smaller that still did the job). It's huge, but more importantly to me it weighs an absolute ton! There's no way I'd want something that heavy hanging on to the motherboard like that; I'd be too worried about it stressing the material to damaging point.
In fact, it's so heavy I'd be worried about the damage it could do to all the AGP and PCI cards on the way down as it broke off, too.
Fair enough - we don't tend to lose power very often at all. I was mainly thinking that a power outage was a good, easily visible message wherever you are that grabbing a radio and finding out what happened was a good idea. It's not like I don't already have about 10 different radio-capable devices around the place, so fitting one into my iPod as well seems a touch pointless to me.
Hello, Mister MS employee, welcome to Slashdot.
Both formats are all about lock-in, you just choose whether you'd rather be locked into Apple or Microsoft. Personally, I say boo to both and just buy the CD for roughly the same price. That way I get proper artwork, a case and no lossy compression as a bonus, too.
Microsoft keep plugging away with this argument that "most" suppliers use WMA, while completely ignoring the fact that iTunes Music Store is massively more popular than all of them put together.