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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich Those numbers sound highly inflated, Vin. I don't expect a sea change of today's buying habits overnight. Not even in 2-3 years. People seldom immediately warm up to new ways of doing things. I realize ther…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Dirk El Gato's EyeHome isn't as mainstream as the iTV will be, simply by the scale on which Apple will produce and market them. Also, although I haven't yet watched the keynote, in the pictures it looks like it say…
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Quote: Originally Posted by merle um... maybe on youtube, but ripped DVD's generally go to DIVX or XVID, (and occasionally to H264) and these play nicely using a Mac Mini and VLC. I aggree with others that a $300 price point without a CPU or a …
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iTV is an expensive TV out device for the Mini, and the Mini is a pretty expensive DVR. I don't know why you would or should need an iTV hooked up to a Mini other than via the network connection. On the network standard, I'm sure that it is being…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacSuperiority Yea right like thats gonna happen If they offer plug-in technology, or even just allow it to use the Quicktime layer from the Host TV then it could use Flip4Mac to translate it to a Quicktime format fo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Sport73 Here's my take...Remember, you heard it here FIRST... It's clearly 802.11n; Steve went out of his way not to say b/g, and we all know the bandwidth requirements for streaming HD content would require n. Sinc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ecking Once a dvd is ripped it ceases to be a dvd and becomes a video file. Will the iTV be able to play video files is the real question. And further, what kind of video files? It seams to me that they almost need t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by techno Is ripping CD's illegal? Shouldn't be any difference. If I own it, I should be able to rip it for my personal use. I'm not sure if Ripping them is illegal per say, but the software that bypasses the DRM might …
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this El Gato's EyeHome with built in wireless and Apple software? Were't they selling that for $199? About the only other thing that I see that is different is that you can link up to Quicktime movie trailers throu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by 1984 TubePort. It's made of tubes and tubes get clogged. It's not a truck! Why would I need a USB dongle to transmit video wirelessly when the built-in Airport could do the same? Something ain't right. one po…
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That depends on what you do with your comuter. If you need the extra screen realestate then it is worth it, especially if you are making money with your computer. If all you are doing is browsing the web and writing e-mail then I wouldn't waste my t…
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Well, he should really be calling with Apple so that they can fix what is wrong with Rosetta. This might be localized to the Mac Pro's, I have seen PhotoShop benchmarks on the intel Macs so someone has it running. It could be someting simple, see th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Messiah I am a graphic designer working exclusively within CS2. Would you guys recommend a 24" iMac or a Mac Pro? I read something from linked to in another forum on Mac Fix It (I think) about problems with Adobe …
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Quote: Originally Posted by murk Remember the December 2005 article from Think Secret? Could any of that be true?http://thinksecret.com/news/0511contentdist.html The problem with that is what is the lag time between pushing play and the video s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by e1618978 If the video stream is decompressed on the Airport Express device, then it will be a fairly expensive unit (probably with a fan in it also). If the video is decompressed on the computer before streaming, then …
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM What? You don't understand what I wrote, though I did make a mistake by not closing it with MacBook Pro replacement. iSight G5 was introduced in Oct 2005 and it was replaced by iMac Core Duo only three months la…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker It doesn't matter. Any and all copy protection schemes can and will be cracked. When video DVDs were introduced, CSS was called "uncrackable" by the industry. The media bought it. They were wrong. There is a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by a_greer It is sort of self-hobbling in that regaurd: pros want more than 2 gigs of memory (in a desktop/server configuration, not laptop ram ), more than one internal hdd, the ability to toss in a better GPU down the li…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker The iMac is selling fine as it is. The real growth rates are in laptops these days anyway, so that's what Apple should be (and is) focusing on. Even though the laptop market is growing faster in repect to the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign Similar priced? or similar priced AND same features? You've only got to go look at other manufacturers all-in-one systems to see that Apple are usually ahead on price, features, design... Yes, it'll ge…