forgetting all the drm issues, the apple TV is NOT HD. low bandwidth 720 is not HD when 1080p sets are selling below $1,000. Yeah, Yeah, 5M folks, give or take, bought or will buy in the next 12 months before they disappear from the market, 720p sets and don't benefit as much from 1080, but even they are getting hosed by apple offering them 5mbps bandwidth video compressed to 4gb (max) files and calling it hd. The next generation product may be interesting, but this one looks far too much like a scam on the consumer.
And speaking as a man who likes 320kb mp3s but finds the itunes low encoding tolerable - video is not audio - the flaws of low bitrates are real, apparent, and easy to see.
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JSM @ Mar 23rd 2007 2:06PM
forgetting all the drm issues, the apple TV is NOT HD. low bandwidth 720 is not HD when 1080p sets are selling below $1,000. Yeah, Yeah, 5M folks, give or take, bought or will buy in the next 12 months before they disappear from the market, 720p sets and don't benefit as much from 1080, but even they are getting hosed by apple offering them 5mbps bandwidth video compressed to 4gb (max) files and calling it hd. The next generation product may be interesting, but this one looks far too much like a scam on the consumer.
And speaking as a man who likes 320kb mp3s but finds the itunes low encoding tolerable - video is not audio - the flaws of low bitrates are real, apparent, and easy to see.