<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:shadestalker@gmail.com">shadestalker@gmail.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:shadestalker@gmail.com">shadestalker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 1/9/07, Peter A. Daly <<a href="mailto:petedaly@gmail.com">petedaly@gmail.com</a>
> wrote:<br>> I'm thinking this may be the cheapest way to get a nice quality silent HD<br>> frontend.<br><br><br>Specs from the Apple store:<br><br>Video<br><br> * • Video formats supported: H.264 and protected
H.264 (from<br>iTunes Store): 640 by 480, 30 fps, LC version of Baseline Profile; 320<br>by 240, 30 fps, Baseline profile up to Level 1.3; 1280 by 720, 24 fps,<br>Progressive Main Profile. MPEG-4: 640 by 480, 30 fps, Simple Profile
</blockquote><div><br><br>Moving off topic here, but it looks like 720p24 must be coming to iTMS, because 720p24 h.264 content sure as hell won't be coming from anywhere else. <br><br>I've been doing a lot of transcoding using Compressor (Apple's version of transcode/mencoder - sporting a barely friendlyier UI) lately, and DV to
h.264 NTSC transcodes take 2 minutes/ minute on a Mac Pro. Of course, I used to endure 9 hour DVD rips on my iBook, but the thought of transcoding, say, the Super Bowl for playback on an Apple TV makes my head spin. <br>
<br>On a related note, while I was watching the stevenote this afternoon, I thought to myself "What an odd term to use" when he first started talking about how the iTV was for "Widescreen TVs" but it supported "720p."
<br><br>It didn't even cross my mind at the time that it might not actually be HDTV capable, but having seen the specs now it seems perfectly obvious. <br><br>He doesn't have anything against the term "HDTV," he just couldn't use it because iTV isn't!
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