http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2006/07/13/how-to-engineer-a-better-ipod/ michael kamleitner - web-consultant & -developer, vienna Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:04:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2006/07/13/how-to-engineer-a-better-ipod/comment-page-1/#comment-1598 nonsmokingarea.com » Blog Archive » Apple Showtime: summary Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:23:40 +0000 http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/?p=141#comment-1598 [...] as expected, iTMS now sells feature-movie downloads for as low as $13 (pre-orders and first-week buyers) and $15 (regular price) - that’s right in the middle of Amazon’s Unbox rates ($8-20). movies are encoded in 640×480 H.264 (nearly DVD-quality), include Dolby Surround, and can of course be put on any video-enabled iPod under the same DRM-restrictions as iTMS tv-shows. the iTMS is starting with only 75 movie-titles as of today and is supplemented with iTunes 7 (cosmetic changes on the user-interface, album-artwork and gapless playback - a feature I ranted about some time ago) and several new iPod-models. there’s a new aluminium Nano in four selected colours (remember the mini-days) a tiny, square Shuffle-successor (very cool) and an upgraded 5.5G iPod (better battery life, lower price, more storage - yawn). still missing: the touchscreen-video-iPod which is rumoured about since…well, anyway. [...] [...] as expected, iTMS now sells feature-movie downloads for as low as $13 (pre-orders and first-week buyers) and $15 (regular price) – that’s right in the middle of Amazon’s Unbox rates ($8-20). movies are encoded in 640×480 H.264 (nearly DVD-quality), include Dolby Surround, and can of course be put on any video-enabled iPod under the same DRM-restrictions as iTMS tv-shows. the iTMS is starting with only 75 movie-titles as of today and is supplemented with iTunes 7 (cosmetic changes on the user-interface, album-artwork and gapless playback – a feature I ranted about some time ago) and several new iPod-models. there’s a new aluminium Nano in four selected colours (remember the mini-days) a tiny, square Shuffle-successor (very cool) and an upgraded 5.5G iPod (better battery life, lower price, more storage – yawn). still missing: the touchscreen-video-iPod which is rumoured about since…well, anyway. [...]

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