Well, I asked an Apple rep working the Macworld floor and he was very quick to assure me that any video content that iTunes can play can be played on the Apple TV, it’s not restricted…

1. Brett Lee is out of the next Aussie game due to bronchitis! I wonder whether his gig list requires condoms?

2. US troops invaded the Iranian Consul in Baghdad this morning and detained four Iranian staff. My understanding…

Edward – check out my post two up from yours. I think the media device you want already exists...

It exists in my house too, after a fashion, in the form of my iBook, which I use to wirelessly copy over video files from the Mac in the office, and…

Before the iPod there were many competing portable MP3 players.......It was these features that helped the iPod grab enormous market share, and grow the market incredibly, very quickly.

It does my head in to see this repeated yet again. I'm not going to pay the US$500 for the exact figure…

I suspect that this will not necessarily be quite as successful as the iPod. The main issue is that it does not support the common formats that are used for movies downloaded off the web – i.e. XVid appears to be missing completely.The iPod is useful because…

My understanding of the music industry is that the only way artists make real big money (e.g the Queens and Paul McCartneys) is from back catalogue CD sales. Concerts are marginally profitable and done to promote music sales. At the indie end of the scale, I guess that bands…

Suit Filed to Protect Cisco's iPhone(R) Trademark

Cisco(R) (NASDAQ:CSCO) today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple, Inc., seeking to prevent Apple from infringing upon and deliberately copying…

Maybe by then it'll also be able to connect to my home wireless network and I'll be able to get the radio on it. Both…

When Microsoft introduces its long-awaited Windows Vista operating system this month, it will have an unlikely partner to thank for making its flagship product safe and secure for millions of computer users across the world: the National Security Agency.

For the first time,…

Have just finished watching Steve J do the annual Muscone Centre thing over at Macworld. I will be interested in the iPhone when(if) it gets to NZ... but not too sure about the AppleTV. If it cannot play divx files to my lounge...?? You are right…

And here's a post about the Apple TV which suggests it will output to any TV…

My third thought? I already have one of these, it's called a Treo, and keys + stylus make it damned easy to use.

My thoughts exactly. My iMate plays MP3s. And is a half-decent phone. And lets me take photos, edit them, upload them to my blog, compose music, edit…

China has chip fabs to make non-drm hardware. Designs for older chips, or chips compatible with older…

Dashboard Widgets in potentially useful and appealing shock!

Yep, and because Mac OS X widgets are coded in plain ol' HTML and JavaScript, it won't be long before someone (or Apple) allows user-created widgets to be uploaded and used alongside the "official" ones.

The iPhone OS allows for the use of widgets which are the same applications found on OSX's Dashboard.

OMG!

Dashboard Widgets in potentially useful and appealing shock!

I got it for a few reasons.

– Music, it's an awefully elegant & easy way to play music on my stereo, especially for my…

Okay, I guess I'd at least like a play with Apple TV now.

This may work to get the files playing in iTunes, however if the Apple TV specs are to be believed, the device itself won't play them unless they're H.264 or MPEG-4. I guess we'll find out soon…

http://dettmer.maclab.org/movie2itunes.html

Okay, I guess I'd at least like a play with Apple…

I actually think it's more like a "Suicide Pact" .... for example saying that "ATI and nVidia…

How bizarre. He doesn't address any of the most interesting points in the paper.

I don't think Cridgley read the Gutman paper. He just addressed the headline. Cridgley's conclusions seem to match Peter's, only in a much more half arsed manner. Some rebuttal.

I do always feel that the words "Homeland Security" taint everything around them with US-style paranoia

Yup, but it makes a great buzzword.
Saying "the DRM features in Vista might allow a hacker to break things" doesn't have the same effect as saying "the DRM features in Vista might allow…

I strongly suspect that the content protection features in Vista will:
a) stay dormant until you install…

How bizarre. He doesn't address any of the most interesting points in the paper.

Indeed, he doesn't mention the security/homeland security side at all, the part which has a pretty good chance of trumping his contention that the government won't have an interest in it.

ahhh the elusive iPhone is here... except NZ.

Actually, it's not even close to here anywhere. No FCC approval means it won't be seen in the US till June, and Europe in Q4 2007, with "Asia" to follow next year. The pricing in the US includes a two-year Cingular contract,…

Also appears to only support upmarket Tv's (although the latter two requirements are bog standard PAL and NTSC)

I think "or" is the operative word in that spec.

Some more reading, specific rebuttal to the suicide note paper by Bob Cringley

How bizarre. He doesn't address any of the most interesting points in the paper.

Until AppleTV gives me…

I had no trouble playing DivX/XviD on my Mac. I just went here and followed the instructions. Works with Front Row no problem. I'm not sure if it would work with the AppleTV, though.

The problem is with iTunes, which appears to the only app for Apple TV, and won't…

Intel and AMD love it. ATI and nVidia love it. Thomson and Philips and Sony and Matsushita and Samsung and LG love it. Every movie studio, TV network, and record company loves it. The only people who…

Given that new copies of media are effectively free to produce (just bandwidth), where is the crossover point at which, say, 10 cent DRM-free mp3s will provide more…