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post #161 of 164
2/15/12 at 10:55pm
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Originally Posted by jpellino View Post

Yeah, I saw that 10,000 R&D personnel number and thought "What a management nightmare." For TVs? Maybe he meant employees involved in "D&D"?

When we were an external research site for Apple, I visited what as then the ATG. I was told by our champion I could go in without the usual security rigamarole as long as I promised not to exclaim too loudly when I saw some of what they were doing. It was sage advice. Pretty sure it was a lot less than 10,000 people. QuickTime came out of there. Which begat MPEG-4. Which Samsung is darned happy to have in every one of their video products. Just sayin'

That's right - Apple invented QuickTime, the world's first computer video player. They have some pedigree of their own in this area. Video compression plays a big part in picture quality.
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post #162 of 164
2/15/12 at 11:43pm
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Originally Posted by cutykamu View Post

i know those are old devices but all i simply meant is that apple can replace all the extra boxes which we people are having today to connect with their tvs and all those wires and boxes looks horrible

I don't think Apple is anywhere near doing anything like that


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Originally Posted by cutykamu View Post

true but if they plan for this i'm sure they won't be making the upgrades the same as iPhone/iPad which you can update every year i think apple tvs will be like upgrading 5 years once

If they lengthen the time between required upgrades, then they will increase the price of cope with this

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i'm just using iTV for now cos we don't have a name how to call apple tv

What about Apple TV?
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post #163 of 164
2/16/12 at 3:51pm
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Originally Posted by ascii View Post

That's right - Apple invented QuickTime, the world's first computer video player. They have some pedigree of their own in this area. Video compression plays a big part in picture quality.


I know QT came out before VFW, are you saying there was no video playback software available prior to 1991?

Also go have a look at the MPEG-4, AVC etc patent pools, Samsung believe they also have some talents in this area.
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post #164 of 164
2/19/12 at 1:12pm
I agree with the samsung guy! I still think TV's main focus should be making stuff look pretty, everything else should be secondary. If any component in your home theatre becomes outdated you can just replace it, not so simple with a huge HDTV. So I'd still prefer all the cool rumours about the Apple HDTV to be crammed into a set top box, they can still do Siri and all that on it.
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