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diggplugSep 30, 2010
wow they weren't kidding when they said it's smaller.
johnnysoftwareOct 1, 2010
25% the size of the original/previous model, according to the article and they include a photo confirming it. My friend's just arrived and he confirmed the device is really tiny.
marianopetersonSep 30, 2010Staff
Ugh... brutally slow. Takes 7+ seconds to browse from one image to the next.
socialhypeSep 30, 2010
so preeety! :-)
shyloveSep 30, 2010
I'm still into pineapples
dirtyfriesSep 30, 2010
No 1080p, no MKV support, no sale.
Pick up a Roku, Sony SMP-N100, or wait for Google TV. More flexible, better quality, and then you aren't stuck in the iTunes ecosystem.
stealthspcSep 30, 2010
You understand that this is a $100 box, right?
dirtyfriesSep 30, 2010
Yes, and I also understand that the others I mentioned are around the same price for a lot more functionality (maybe with the exception of GTV), and that really all you're doing is paying Apple for a storefront.
It's a deep money pit you get into once you start locking yourself in with them.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
johnnysoftwareOct 1, 2010
Apple is charging about a buck a song and audio CDs these days cost about 20x that and have a lot fewer than 20 tracks most of the time. in addition, Apple gives out free song(s) each week and
Look at video disc formats if you want to see a money pit. The movie industry wants to drop regular DVD now that high-def TVs are here. But computer/hardware makers cannot settle on a format, so you have incompatible Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.
Apple is selling lots of movies from its online store. They appear on the buyer/renter's computer and then they watch it on their computer or, using Apple TV, on their big, deluxe HDTV digital TV set.
If you want a lot of vendor lock-in, you'll have to trudge far north from Cupertino. Microsoft has so much vendor lock-in they cannot play their own content on their own devices!
gridlock489Sep 30, 2010
being 'stuck in the iTunes ecosystem' is just fine for the target audience of this product. if those other players suit you better then buy them
and for resolution-purists, most HD video nowadays is actually just 720p upscaled. it doesnt make a difference unless youre either sitting 3 feet from your tv screen or your screen is 8 feet
johnnysoftwareOct 1, 2010
You realize that the niche of the iTunes is 75% of all music sales in the United States, right? The reason it is the niche is that people abandoned or shunned everything else. CD sales plumeted, record stores went out of business, Tower tottered, and Windows Music Anywhere (WMA) isn't _anywhere_ now.
Plus, look at those other niches; not only a tiny, fragmented, incompatible minority but also they are turbulent as heck
Microsoft really does not support the WMA format anymore in new products. I think manufacturers that included support for it as recently as 5-10 years ago are not supporting it now. Microsoft's Zune and Mobile music file formats are incompatible with each other. Usually, it takes at least two companies to come up with two incompatible file formats. I guess buying and holding onto every song in 3 different file formats sounds like a plan to Microsoft's VP of sales but in real life, that does not play out so well.
People buy a song they like one time, play it on their iPhone, their iPod, their Windows PC, and their Mac. They do not have problems, they have music, and the devices they are happy with play it.
johnnysoftwareOct 1, 2010
I had no idea what MKV was so I looked it up on the web and it turns out it is a disliked video file format. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mkv
I'm guessing that in "real life" this is not a show-stopper and you are just pulling our leg about it being a deal breaker for you.
As for 1080i respoluition, are you downloading a lot of TV show & movie, purchases in that file format? It's about 7 gigabytes per hour, isn't it?Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
samadams2point0Sep 30, 2010
Apple did a great job improving the UI for this device. It does play m4v files which is what the majority of my moves are in, $99? count me in.
johnnysoftwareOct 1, 2010
Well, M4V is the TV show & movie file format used by Apple in iTunes, so if it did not play that I would be "very surprised".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4V
philbertSep 30, 2010
That wasn't 70's porn-ish enough.
And how do I connect it with only a power cable included? Do I have to go to the nearest apple store to $100 for an HDMI cable?
gridlock489Sep 30, 2010
very few devices actually come with HDMI cables. order one from amazon for like 6 bucks
johnnysoftwareOct 1, 2010
I thought I saw composite video output jacks on the device.
suprchunkOct 1, 2010
You saw wrong.