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Awesome, I can watch hi def on a tiny ass phone, but not on a 27 inch screen.

I have plenty of HD video on my Mac. Don't blame Apple for your inability to find any.

(Unless, of course, by "hi-def" you're talking about something other than HD video. It's not a term I'm familiar with so I had to guess. If it is something else, you need to be more clear since HD video my best guess as to what you meant.)
 
Desktop monitors and Tvs do not achieve the same effect as a retina display, you can not see the amazing pixel density.

correct me if I am wrong, but I have a house full of desktop computers, and big screen tvs, and none of them are as stunning to me as the iphone 4's display.

How can we correct you when you are stating your belief?

This is a typical Apple statement.

We have the what: The Retina Display. So what?

The display shows amazing clarity in your photos, your movies, your music, your books, etc

Well done commercial I'd say.
 
A 27" Monitor is viewed from much farther away than an iPhone screen and as such, a lower pixel density will achieve the same effect. For the most part, 37" 1080p TVs are right now "Retina displays".

Now can we stop saying uneducated stuff like "Niuh uh, you'll never have a 326 ppi 27" monitor!".

This.
 
iTunes has lots of HD content you can watch on a Mac. Blu-ray is not the beginning and end of HD.

Blu-ray? What's that? Is that those old discs that people used to stack up in their living room and get up from their sofa to shuffle through, trying to find the one that the kids left downstairs in their computer?:p
 
Exactly so. You beat me to it. "leroypants" is utterly clueless.

If you guys are going to be rude, at least address what leroypants was actually saying. He wasn't ASKING for a 300-whatever dpi screen on a computer. He was talking about watching hi-def content. Presumably he/she is lamenting the lack of Blu-ray drives, or perhaps that iTunes only sells HD content in 720p. I'm not sure.

But you're rude and embarrassing yourself for calling leroypants clueless.

At least I hope that's what he meant, otherwise I'll be embarrassed...
 
I have plenty of HD video on my Mac. Don't blame Apple for your inability to find any.

(Unless, of course, by "hi-def" you're talking about something other than HD video. It's not a term I'm familiar with so I had to guess. If it is something else, you need to be more clear since HD video my best guess as to what you meant.)

I know where to find hi-def stuff, but unlike some people I am not a thief. I would like to support the movie industry but can't since Steve has a stick up his butt over it.
 
:p hi def through the iTunes store looks like crap and is hugely compressed sacrificing quality in favor of size.

so all content is video? what about pictures, games, other apps, browsing the web,

and HD content on itunes does not look like crap, and itunes is just one place that happens to have HD content.


I would like to support the movie industry but can't since Steve has a stick up his butt over it.
So why can't you buy dvds or blu-rays and watch them on your blu-ray player?
 
Who would have thought they had a new commercial out? I seriously saw this commercial at least 20 times tonight.
 
Nowhere on the ad does it say "Screen images simulated" like it usually does. I can't be the only one that finds that interesting!

I don't think I've ever seen an iPhone commercial where the screen images were simulated. Every other phone company does that in their ads (even ads bragging about their OLED screens). The only thing Apple does is "shorten sequences".
 
Am I the only one who noticed the horizontal lines across the screen(there's a name for them but I forgot) when they show the close up of "Up"? Just seems kind of ironic ghat they're talking about how good the retina display is but then there's hideous lines on it
 
I don't think I've ever seen an iPhone commercial where the screen images were simulated. Every other phone company does that in their ads (even ads bragging about their OLED screens). The only thing Apple does is "shorten sequences".

I'm pretty sure most commercials for electronic devices are simulated, and I'm a 100% sure that they've done it for iPhone commercials
 
looks good..too bad I can't make calls with the phone as my calls get dropped..what is Apple going to do about that? I returned mine because I want and need actually a phone..
 
looks good..too bad I can't make calls with the phone as my calls get dropped..what is Apple going to do about that? I returned mine because I want and need actually a phone..

umm that whole bumper thing!

and most people don't have problems with dropped calls its just you.
 
Nice ad, I've gotten the chance to see the iphone 4 and the display on it is amazing, its basically what Apple promises you cannot see any pixels.. I'm really hoping we see a retina display on the imacs..
 
Without a doubt it's my single most favorite feature on the iPhone 4. It makes reading anything on the screen a pleasure, much better on the eyes.
 
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