Yup...like I said...wake me up when it's over, and we can get back to the business of delivering high definition content to our HDTVs. Streaming 640x272 widescreen movies via iTV to an HDTV is pointless. It's about as bad as all the people who buy an HD monitor, hook it up to their analog cable box with a RF connector and think they have high definition television.
My bad, I missed reading that it was widescreen. I saw 640x480. But if it is 640x480 video rendering widescreen at 640x272 with the black bars removed, that is non-anamorphic video.
In any case...yawn! So if it's a step towards something with better resolution, wake me up when it gets there.
Ultimately, what I really want is streaming HD video on demand, delivered reasonably cheap. It doesn't have to be something I keep. If I could pay $1 (maybe $2) to stream a movie to my TV(s) in high definition for, say, 2-3 days that would be awesome. I collect DVDs, but doubt I have any one I've watched 10 times.
I know it's a pipe dream, but maybe in the future when they sort out the delivery issues.
In the meantime, I'm not buying into anything new that isn't high definition (and definitely not a technology that has competing, incompatable formats either a.k.a. HD-DVD vs. BRD). For standard edef (480p) I have an awesome DVD player, and at that video resolution DVD is not broken (except for the stupid anti-piracy stuff) and needs no replacement/alternate.
I understand what anamorphic is. My main point is that for $15 we get video that isn't even as good as DVD (and I rarely pay more than $15 for a DVD). I'm disppointed in the sense that it would have been nice to stream HD (720P) video to either of my HDTVs using the iTV and its HDMI output.
At least it doesn't seem like the joke that Amazon Unbox video is.
Pan and Scan low-res video for $10-15/movie? What's the point? This would only be interesting -- together with iTV -- if it were high-definition to stream to my TV via the HDMI output of iTV. But for it to not even be anamorphic widescreen video at 720x480 is completely laughable. And I haven't even mentioned the audio...
I'm using encryption, MAC address filtering, and SSID broadcast is disabled. I just don't want any computers on my net I have no control over. And if anyone thinks I'm selfsih or anti-social, tough.
Do you have an undergraduate degree of any kind? I have a B.A. in Music, but UM-Rolla accepted me as a masters student in a CompSci degree program with no CS background (although I had professional experience). Granted, I had to fulfill a bunch of pre-reqs (Calculus, Stats, Data Structures, etc.), but I took night classes for both pre-req and regular masters cpourses while still working, and I'm now three courses away from my masters. It's taken a while, but my current employer recognized the fact that I'm working on the degree when they hired me.
Pretty typical of Apple! It's things like this, and worse, that drove me years ago from being a devout Macintosh fan and developer to abandoning the platform completely.
I no longer have the least interest nor respect for Apple and it's products. Not because the products are or aren't good (although their hardware is the least reliable of everything I've had), but because the company keeps alienating the people who help it survive, past and present. While my Intel Solaris desktop and Win2K/Linux laptop run essentially 24/7, my PowerMac 9600 sits idle and probably will so until I decide to wipe it clean and turn it into a Linux server or get rid of it otherwise. May Apple choke on its skid-marked legal briefs.
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Yup...like I said...wake me up when it's over, and we can get back to the business of delivering high definition content to our HDTVs. Streaming 640x272 widescreen movies via iTV to an HDTV is pointless. It's about as bad as all the people who buy an HD monitor, hook it up to their analog cable box with a RF connector and think they have high definition television.
My bad, I missed reading that it was widescreen. I saw 640x480.
But if it is 640x480 video rendering widescreen at 640x272 with the black bars removed, that is non-anamorphic video.
In any case...yawn! So if it's a step towards something with better resolution, wake me up when it gets there.
Ultimately, what I really want is streaming HD video on demand, delivered reasonably cheap. It doesn't have to be something I keep. If I could pay $1 (maybe $2) to stream a movie to my TV(s) in high definition for, say, 2-3 days that would be awesome. I collect DVDs, but doubt I have any one I've watched 10 times.
I know it's a pipe dream, but maybe in the future when they sort out the delivery issues.
In the meantime, I'm not buying into anything new that isn't high definition (and definitely not a technology that has competing, incompatable formats either a.k.a. HD-DVD vs. BRD). For standard edef (480p) I have an awesome DVD player, and at that video resolution DVD is not broken (except for the stupid anti-piracy stuff) and needs no replacement/alternate.
I understand what anamorphic is. My main point is that for $15 we get video that isn't even as good as DVD (and I rarely pay more than $15 for a DVD). I'm disppointed in the sense that it would have been nice to stream HD (720P) video to either of my HDTVs using the iTV and its HDMI output.
At least it doesn't seem like the joke that Amazon Unbox video is.
Pan and Scan low-res video for $10-15/movie? What's the point? This would only be interesting -- together with iTV -- if it were high-definition to stream to my TV via the HDMI output of iTV. But for it to not even be anamorphic widescreen video at 720x480 is completely laughable. And I haven't even mentioned the audio...
I'm using encryption, MAC address filtering, and SSID broadcast is disabled. I just don't want any computers on my net I have no control over. And if anyone thinks I'm selfsih or anti-social, tough.
Do you have an undergraduate degree of any kind? I have a B.A. in Music, but UM-Rolla accepted me as a masters student in a CompSci degree program with no CS background (although I had professional experience). Granted, I had to fulfill a bunch of pre-reqs (Calculus, Stats, Data Structures, etc.), but I took night classes for both pre-req and regular masters cpourses while still working, and I'm now three courses away from my masters. It's taken a while, but my current employer recognized the fact that I'm working on the degree when they hired me.
Pretty typical of Apple! It's things like this, and worse, that drove me years ago from being a devout Macintosh fan and developer to abandoning the platform completely.
I no longer have the least interest nor respect for Apple and it's products. Not because the products are or aren't good (although their hardware is the least reliable of everything I've had), but because the company keeps alienating the people who help it survive, past and present. While my Intel Solaris desktop and Win2K/Linux laptop run essentially 24/7, my PowerMac 9600 sits idle and probably will so until I decide to wipe it clean and turn it into a Linux server or get rid of it otherwise. May Apple choke on its skid-marked legal briefs.
Dean Wette