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Quote: Originally Posted by retiarius d For the second case, E = .75 ( (8/1.5) + 1 ) = 19 / 4 Mpbs = 4.75 Mbps Whew! They probably built in some slop so perhaps the bitrate is really only 4.5 Mbps. Slight gaffe -- using 768…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism From my very rough estimate based on the downlaod speed it looks to be about 3x faster than my SD iTunes rentals. That means about 4.5?5Mbps. This is just about right, I get 4.66-4.75 Mbps using a combi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wiggin "Apple TV is essentially a low end Mac with a video card supporting 1280x800 resolution." This is the first I've read anywhere the actual video card resolution limit. I always understood that video was limite…
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Now that HD rentals are out, Is the bandwidth closer to 3 mbps or 5 mbps, to motivate those who are gauging how much money to give to an ISP for this service. If much higher than 3 mbps, there won't be much instant gratification to be had among…
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Regarding AppleTV content resolution, at Macworld the Apple emps demoed the three resolutions for widescreen at 1280x720p, the current iTunes standard 640x360, and the new resolution for SD rentals -- 720x480 anamorphic, just like DVD, but transc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by CREB Now here is something that will actually increase sales, and Apple's stock value. My son works for AT&T and he cannot wait for this move to happen as it is a major complaint among business users. Yup, and t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by casper3 (What the hell are you talking about with wireless power?! There's no such thing, except for an experimental lighting of a lightbulb!) There's resonance power coupling in existing products like the Sonicare…
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Now that Apple is going with Sun's ZFS, isn't the RAID controller (but not the array itself) a bit old-fashioned?
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Quote: Originally Posted by hypoluxa Im curious as to how Jobs lives day to day if he only gets paid 1$ a yr does he just use his stock $$ to live off of? How exactly would would that work? I have some investments/ stocks but nothing like his. I …
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Quote: Originally Posted by craigd6861 A patent is good for 20 years from date of filing. The patent in question was filed March 25, 1987. Technicality -- some patents (e.g. this one) are good for 17 years from the issue date: http://en.wi…
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Gaffe: The "iTunes" video rental store would do widescreen material at 3 mbps (or better) if it were 852x480 extended definition, or 5 mbps at 960x540, matching the AppleTV encoder rates. Either way, vanilla DSL subscriptions at 1.5 mbps would…
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Apple doesn't have to pick 720p/1080i/1080p to claim better than DVD quality. It's curious that they are already bending the definition of HD by hosting (852x480p) video in their QuickTime "HD Gallery". Also, 960x540 can be used, in corresponde…
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> If Apple can get video quality up and handle bandwidth issues [....] Problem is, Apple doesn't do "bandwidth", only the DSL/cable ISP does. So, at existing state-of-the-art 640x480 H.264 this is 1.6 Mbps or so, with "widescreen" being a…
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We know that Apple has jammed ZFS + 'dtrace' + Java from Sun into MacOS X for a while now. Perhaps a "secret feature" from the near/medium-term future is to just replace the whole damn kernel with (soon to be GPL3) Solaris. Natch, this will o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TBaggins So, the $64,000 Question: How much power savings can we expect from going LED-backlit, and how much will MB and MBP battery life improve as a result? . ... according to Apple LED backlighting supplie…
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HDTVs and projectors are fast ditching DVI connectors and analog sound inputs in favor of HDMI. Intel/Apple were working on something called UDI but may have abandoned such. Naturally, HDMI (now up to v1.3) makes sense for revised Cinema Displa…
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> That reminds me: whatever happened to "-ly" in American English? Tom Lehrer (on behalf of the GE-sponsored Electric Company) hijacked the colloquial adjectival phrase, in his infamous 1972 song "L-Y". V.i.z. http://www.bearcy.com/tomle…
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Please be aware that because of a little technicality called the Image Constraint Token (ICT), Apple may not offer 720p material for widescreen, but perhaps only 960x540p. That is, studios can invoke this tag to suppress any > 540p material fro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Silencio Steve Jobs is to stock options as Barry Bonds is to steroids. This analogy is very apt. A large percentage of top echelon ballplayers equate to significant numbers of silicon valley names. Now it appe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by michaelb It's not unprecedented, as all of the MPEG Fraunhofer encoding license fees are taken care of by a QuickTime Pro license, which many (self included) feel should be part of an Mac OS X box purchase. Apple mi…