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- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -10/+130What ***** *****. Let's see how far Apple's products have regressed toward the schlock being peddled by competitors at Best Buy:
1. No FireWire.
2. MORE DRM
3. Idiotic glossy screens FORCED on customers
And at least competitors' keyboards have a real Delete key. And most competitors' machines have FireWire. So Apple has gone from being a leader to being a hangdog, overpriced prima donna. - JustinRalua, on 11/18/2008, -19/+117This really says alot about all the people that jerked themselves off to Job's "anti-drm" blah blah blah.
And I use a Mac for TextMate but stop sucking Apple ***** you morons. - dig1x, on 11/18/2008, -4/+101Steve Jobs is the largest single shareholder, and sits on the Board of Walt Disney Corp.
Walt Disney Corp. is a rabid anti-fair-use zealot.
Walt Disney Corp. is a "leading" MPAA / RIAA member.
Apple is **not** your friend in the digital media future. - WiseWeasel, on 11/18/2008, -4/+80The solution is simple; do NOT purchase ANY movies from the iTunes Store, as they ALL have copy protection that will get in the way of what you want to do. Instead, simply buy the movie on DVD, and rip it to a standard format media file. There are some great tools to do this, such as your DVD ripper of choice (free/donationware MacTheRipper on Mac, free DVDShrink or trialware AnyDVD on Windows) to get the DVD on your hard drive minus copy protection, and then something like the awesome free tool Handbrake to convert the ripped DVD to AVC/H.264/.MP4 format, which you can then import into iTunes and use as you would an iTunes Movie Store purchase, only without any restrictions on usage or conversion.
Until these movie distributors pull their heads out of their collective ass and sell us content in standard formats, we'll have to rip and convert those shiny discs ourselves. Alternatively, you can just pirate the movie from P2P instead of purchasing it, and it'll already be in a standard format. - 80hd, on 11/18/2008, -2/+78I think the media industry is trying to teach us that legit purchases are NOT the best way to get things done. HD torrents play just fine, transcode easily, are usually available faster via rss.
Pretty much all that needs to happen is for a home theater pc package to be released that makes torrenting with RSS as simple as signing up for a season pass with a DVR and the movie/tv industry will be utterly *****. - Nephersir7, on 11/19/2008, -9/+61Apple is AGAINST DIGITAL FREEDOM, and that doesn't only include DRM.
According to them, you should not be allowed to run any OS on any computer, even if it its hardware is able to run it. According to Apple, you should rely on bloated software (that runs about 10 unneeded tasks AND services on background, slowing both performances and boot time) to sync (not transfer) your PMP (read: iPod) to your computer. According to Apple, if your computer has a problem, the simplest solution is to go to the nearest Apple store (even if it is 300km away) and magical geniuses will fix it while you look at their new offerings and kindly offers you more overpriced RAM - niradg, on 11/18/2008, -7/+52Apple - the new evil empire.
- BlakeEM, on 11/19/2008, -2/+39Then why do they run tons of expensive ads attacking Microsoft?
- vtnerd, on 11/19/2008, -1/+25If you had gone to the full article you would have seen this: "When my friend John, a high school teacher, attempted to play Hellboy 2 on his classroom's projector with a new aluminum MacBook OVER LUNCH (emphasis is mine), he was denied by the error you see above."
But ***** him, he should be up there preaching to the empty desks in his room 24/7, right? - Emachine, on 11/18/2008, -7/+31Actually Apple doesn't have any competitors, and that's the problem.
- Nephersir7, on 11/19/2008, -12/+34Apple has been evil from the beginning, but their typical customer is too stupid to realize that, so why bother?
- mkpaa, on 11/19/2008, -4/+25HDCP is to entertainment what DDT was to environment.
- ruarctb, on 11/19/2008, -4/+25Itunes is the fanciest malware I've seen. Once that ***** gets on your system, good luck removing it completely.
- Jambi, on 11/18/2008, -0/+17Actually, this is just a precursor to the new internet that these guys have been pushing, where everything you do will be followed by programs ensuring that you don't violate someone's intellectual property rights, offend someone, bother the government, etc. If he was dead, Lawrence Lessig would be spinning in his grave right now. Death of the commons indeed.
- ctrlfreak13, on 11/19/2008, -1/+18Handbrake can rip straight from DVD... no need for the other apps first.
- gcnaddict, on 11/19/2008, -8/+25About time you Apple zealots came to your senses. Jobs was never anti-DRM; he only temporarily sided with the side that may have brought him more business.
Apple's looking for money, just like any other company. Unlike any other company, however, Apple is far more predatory about it. - tnoy, on 11/19/2008, -3/+19@BlakeEM
Because they don't have any customers.
*duck* - g3rd, on 11/19/2008, -3/+18Best quote ever, "Because copyright protection is all about inconveniencing those who actually bought their stuff legally?"
- AZRoboto, on 11/19/2008, -2/+17Of course not, they don't even have SD!
Even the OLPC has SD! - themuffinman, on 11/19/2008, -4/+18In what way is usb better than firewire other than in marketshare?
Hint: while usb is faster than firewire on paper, the opposite is true in real world tests. - MScrip, on 11/19/2008, -1/+15But many do. If I was in the market for a Windows laptop, I have a choice of many HPs, Toshibas and Dells to find one with Firewire.
Apple makes 1 Macbook. - MScrip, on 11/19/2008, -1/+14> "I seriously think they can easily kill Windows machines by licensing their OS to third party vendors."
So, if Dell sold a machine that had OSX on it... how would that help Apple? Apple would make $50 from the license of OSX, and Dell makes the rest of the profit on the machine itself. It would still be a Dell. Just like a Dell is a Dell if it has Windows on it. You don't hear anyone call a computer "a Microsoft." Dell would come out on top, not Apple.
Apple makes a ton of money because they sell hardware, with decent margins. If they just sold DVDs of OSX they wouldn't make nearly as much money. - o5rob5o, on 11/19/2008, -13/+26"A high school teacher was unable to play Hellboy 2 on his classroom's projector with his new aluminum MacBook, but other purchased media (such as Stargate: Continuum and Heroes episodes) worked just fine. Perfect."
And we wonder why math and science are behind other countries... - dig1x, on 11/18/2008, -6/+18Get an Xbox 360 and use Windows Media Center Extender.
- MissMyZDtv, on 11/18/2008, -2/+14This is not good at all. Several times a week I connect my MacBook to my onkyo receiver and let it route the audio and video. Look like no new purchase until this is figured out...
- ohplease, on 11/19/2008, -5/+17
This is the same crap people lambasted Vista about.
Go ahead without HDCP. Good luck watching a Blu Ray without it. - tnoy, on 11/19/2008, -3/+14"When my friend John, a high school teacher, attempted to play Hellboy 2 on his classroom's projector with a new aluminum MacBook over lunch, he was denied by the error you see above."
Maybe you need to spend more time in class. - MacParrot, on 11/19/2008, -0/+10Wow...I had forgotten that there were Mac users like you.
- Sagags, on 11/19/2008, -1/+11no any display with HDCP, still doesn't make it suck any less though.
- CressCrowbits, on 11/19/2008, -0/+10"That's coming from a photographer."
Amateur photographer, I guess. - Vektuz, on 11/19/2008, -0/+10This is more of a case where HDCP is just a copy protection scheme adding extra slowdown and problems on top of a connection that can handle it. HDMI for example.
HDCP should be viewed as the razor blade in the HD candy.
"Copy protection" is their real goal. They shove it in there along with HD content and try to make you think that HDCP = HD, but its not. You can get HD without HDCP - in fact, its more expensive with HDCP, but a huge amount of money is going into making people think that HDCP means HD. - Elranzer, on 11/19/2008, -1/+11Wait... I thought Steve Jobs said he didn't want to offer Blu-Ray as an option BECAUSE of the headaches of implementing HDCP.
I thought Steve Jobs was incapable of lying to us.
I thought Steve Jobs was thinking of ME when he removed FireWire from the MacBooks and told me I didn't need it.
I thought Steve Jobs was personally motivated by the art and being different, not in it for the money.
I thought Steve Jobs personally thinks of us, the consumer, and not the bank.
I thought Steve Jobs accepted the $1.00 salary because he designs Apple computers out of the goodness of his heart, not to avoid taxes, right? - Myztry, on 11/19/2008, -2/+11Lack of equivalent options... Plain and simple.
- KibibyteBrain, on 11/19/2008, -0/+9What are you talking about? eSATA is a serial disk drive interface. Firewire and USB are general purpose serial ports. They support totally different things and work totally differently.
- gluesniffined, on 11/19/2008, -0/+91080p DTS audio blu-ray rips in open and drm free mkv container....FTW?
Pirates don't care about DRM, it doesn't inconvenience them in the least. All they are telling you is 'don't buy our stuff, pirate it'. - Topher07, on 11/19/2008, -5/+14"Because copyright protection is all about inconveniencing those who actually bought their stuff legally?"
Bingo.
Good to know that Apple is still jipping the hell out of its loyal fanboys! - doctordbx, on 11/19/2008, -9/+18FORCED? Come on. You always have the option to not buy. Nobody forced anybody to buy a Mac.
- demizer, on 11/19/2008, -7/+15So does that mean If you wanted to play Hi Def video on your Macbook, you would have to buy an Apple display? If so, LAME.
I mean, lame either way, but even more so bcz you have to buy an overpriced monitor to boot. - MacSuxWindozSux, on 11/19/2008, -3/+11And all those people blasting Vista about having HDCP DRM aren't around to blast Apple for the same thing.
- Reita, on 11/19/2008, -3/+11You use Amazon's music store to buy movies?
- porl, on 11/19/2008, -3/+11and don't get me started as to why usb is completely useless for serious audio work. hint: it is nothing to do with transfer speed
- tnoy, on 11/19/2008, -0/+8Exactly. I don't see what the big deal is. All they have to do is what I do with my Thinkpad: just get a FireWire to ExpressCard adaptor... oh wait.. nevermind.
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -2/+10Wahh...wahh, my overpriced itunes collection is causing me problems, wahh...wahh
- JasonMaloney101, on 11/19/2008, -1/+8That's right! Without HDCP, I wouldn't be able to watch my new Iron Man Blu-Ray disc in my new MacBook!
...oh, wait... - MScrip, on 11/19/2008, -1/+8> "eSATA is a pain. It requires a power brick to go with the drive enclosure."
All external 3.5" drives need a power brick.
eSATA is not for portability. It's to put a SATA drive outside of the computer, but still get internal speeds. - meghalc, on 11/19/2008, -4/+11I just connect my 16gb flash drive to my xbox 360 and watch my divx/xvid stuff. :)
- BossKey, on 11/19/2008, -0/+7Problems with eSATA:
- No bus power
- No daisy-chaining
- Not guaranteed bootable at this time, as far as I can tell - arcticblue, on 11/19/2008, -0/+7Go sit next to a window or go to a park or something and try to work on your pictures. Come back and tell us how well the "brighter" screen (it's not brighter, just shinier because of the gloss) overcomes reflections then.
I personally love glossy screens and I would prefer to have a laptop that has one, but that's only because my laptop never leaves my desk and I won't have a problem with glare. If I was on the road alot, I'd pick a matte screen without a doubt. - archer75, on 11/19/2008, -2/+9You can easily watch it without HDCP. At least I can on my Vista HTPC. AnyDVD will break the copy protection of any disc inserted.
Or you can have a ripped copy with the DRM removed. - Myztry, on 11/19/2008, -1/+8eSATA is a pain. It requires a power brick to go with the drive enclosure..
We have Gigabyte boards in several of our machines that come with an eSATA back plate and cables.
Trouble is unless you want a bare drive attached, you can't get the cabling to go from the back plate to the DIN power socket apparently used by all casings.
It's probably just an issue with standardization but it kills the concept. -
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