Steve’d: HD Movies Play Only On Apple TV
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Name: Tyler Pruitt
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About: As a life long Geek, Tyler is pretty much addicted to anything that has to do with technology. He became hooked on HDTV in early '04, and hasn't looked back since. Tyler is a HD video content addict, and has been since the days of recording HD movies onto D-VHS tapes.
At his day job in the aerospace industry, he is never too far away from the latest FWC related news thanks to Google Reader on the iPhone.See Authors Posts (339) on January 15, 2008
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John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has snooped through the new iTunes TOS, discovering that HD Movie Downloads will only be playable on the Apple TV. WTF? Every single MacBook/MacBook Pro has an HD capable display, as well as Plenty of horsepower for HD playback. Heck, every Intel based Mac should have no problems with 720p HD content. We really wonder why this Artificial Limitation is being put on us…..Better not have to do with HDCP!
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Or else what?? U will look like a bigger tool than you do now for thinking that apple movie RENTALS will knock off BD? I guess your sources didn’t tell you that apple has the worst DRM there is hey?? Hey tyler just a quick tidbit, MP3’s still don’t have a 50% market share(money wise) and they have been around 10 years+..
I’m pretty sure it does have to do with HDCP as the AppleTV is the only Apple product that has HDMI output. Yes their laptops and desktops all support DVI but not HDCP DVI.
Wow does this not make mt post in the last thread look clairvoyant or what?!?!
In case anyone missed it…
Charles on January 15th, 2008 3:57 pm
I’m and in home IT support guy and I have some wealthy customers as well as some poor ones and they both have shelves full of DVDs (and some Blu) but not one has a PC or Mac connected to a TV.
Let us all get out of our nErD world for a minute…
My Aunt bought the crap Olevia flat and had me over to connect the PS3 with a high def cable (at my younger cousins request) This is how the masses slowly adopt new tech. remember when people still used coax and watched VHS on channel 3??? But RCA jacks became standard and people see the quality. Then they moved to DVD…
Now what seems like the next progression? A higher resolution disc based system or JoeBlow consumer making the leap to plugging his computer into his TV backing up his downloaded movies on huge external HDs??? I work on at least 9 residential computers a week here in the LAngeles suburbs and I’ve seen about 3 computers in the last few years that we’re hooked up to TVs.
And those customer’s we’re who you’d expect to watch movies on there computers. Teenagers and 20 somethings watching BitTorrent rips… not exactly a burgeoning revenue source for Hollywood
I’m not here to flame but
Tyler, you’re wrong, you can move and play the file everywhere you want
AppleTv
IpodTouch
IpodNano
IpodClassic
Mac computers with Itunes
Windows computers with Itunes
Andrea75,
The HD Movie rentals can only be rented from/played on an Apple TV.