I bought a show from iTunes to test against my ripped DVDs and shows that I have acquired elsewhere. No difference on any of my HD TVs. Certainly nothing that warrants the writer's heavy criticism. I did this on my MacPro, iMac, and mac mini's. I don't own an Apple TV, but I doubt the Apple TV's playback quality is less than my computers.
All of this "I hate Apple therefore all Apple products suck" mentality is ridiculous. Apple makes products that work for people who care about things that "just work". Sometimes, the features that people want on Slashdot or Engadget are not in the product. Guess what, you aren't Apple's target audience. You aren't Doctor Who, either.
It may have been mentioned already, but in the OSX instances, at least, is it not possible for Apple to update firmware to verify if a disk is a DATA or AUDIO CD? Perhaps there could be a preference panel that lets the user specify how an inserted disk is treated.
As far as I understand, the basic problem is that the data stripe that is dropped at the end of the audio disk confuses the machine and won't give access to the audio tracks. Would it be illegal for Apple to simply allow a preference panel to either (a) look for data information or (b) look for audio cd information? Since the protection scheme is not encryption, how could a solution like this violate the reverse engineering law? What is there to reverse engineer?
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You are spot on.
I bought a show from iTunes to test against my ripped DVDs and shows that I have acquired elsewhere. No difference on any of my HD TVs. Certainly nothing that warrants the writer's heavy criticism. I did this on my MacPro, iMac, and mac mini's. I don't own an Apple TV, but I doubt the Apple TV's playback quality is less than my computers.
All of this "I hate Apple therefore all Apple products suck" mentality is ridiculous. Apple makes products that work for people who care about things that "just work". Sometimes, the features that people want on Slashdot or Engadget are not in the product. Guess what, you aren't Apple's target audience. You aren't Doctor Who, either.
it is a preference panel that includes a Services CMM. Indispensible. http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=133 81&db=mac
One of my joys in life are the various signature quotes/mantras/sayings that appear on the message boards. Yours is definitely a keeper. Thanks.
It may have been mentioned already, but in the OSX instances, at least, is it not possible for Apple to update firmware to verify if a disk is a DATA or AUDIO CD? Perhaps there could be a preference panel that lets the user specify how an inserted disk is treated.
As far as I understand, the basic problem is that the data stripe that is dropped at the end of the audio disk confuses the machine and won't give access to the audio tracks. Would it be illegal for Apple to simply allow a preference panel to either (a) look for data information or (b) look for audio cd information? Since the protection scheme is not encryption, how could a solution like this violate the reverse engineering law? What is there to reverse engineer?