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iPod Video Photo

TMA said:
I'm not sure you're right. The casing around the plug looks too long (horizontally) compared to the picture.
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The "fake or not" pic shows the connector cable as being wider at the point of connection and slimmer at the point of the cable.The cable in the "fake or not" pic also shows TWO cables encased inside a clear plastic enclosure.

[edit] This "might" be real.If that cable does indeed have two cables coming from it one could be audio and the other video [/edit]
 
Someone made a joke in the thread following that other pic that this looks like a pocket mirror. I think it is a shower/anti-fog mirror. Most that I've seen recently seem to have that clear-ish border. I whole-heartedly believe that's what this is. The color palette/test screen thing has been Photoshopped on and many have already pointed out the plug as non-Apple. Probably taken from a DVD setup screen. That bar-code even looks hand drawn.
 
mrgreen4242 said:
Another thing I was think was about the semi-recent virtual wheel tablet looking patents Apple filed a while back. The line art drawings of the example device was about that size (8 or 9" diagonal screen)... let's see if I can find that pic...

Here they are: http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/48/new-apple-patents

The more I look at it, the more I think that's what this is.
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If that's 8-9" then the cord is like 8 guage or something. Maybe s-video/audio/optical?*

David

*I didn't actually measure and calculate to figure out guage, but I'd say I'm about right.
 
yg17 said:
I dont know if anyone has discussed.....WHY the colored bars. Perhaps this has more than just video playback? TV Tuner? Who knows....but a video of colored bars just seems unlikely
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That's a variation on a standard video test signal. The top is a tonal scale (displays contrast from black to white), the bottom is a color scale.

This pattern is absolutely something that would be run through the screen at the last stage of production (Quality Control), right before the item is packaged in a dandy spankin new Apple Video iPod box.
 
Cool, but not power saving

yoda_four said:
This just popped into my head. What if Apple redesigned the iPod OS to be basically Front Row?! Wouldn't having a black screen use less power than a white screen? Plus, it would be just as usable with a touch-screen click-wheel as with an Apple Remote.
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While a black Front Row style interface (replete with reflections of album covers, etc.) would be pretty cool looking, it wouldn't save power. An LCD screen uses a powered backlight behind the LCD panels. When there is no power running to the pixels, they are transparent, and you see the white. When there is power running to them, they turn opaque, block the light, and give you black. So a primarily white interface theoretically uses less power, although probably not by much, as the main power drain is the backlight. (This is why it only turns on for a few seconds by default).

A black interface might also be difficult to read, especially at small size. Black text on white is generally more quickly read than white on black.

Edit: Alexander already mentioned this. :-/
 
Super Dave said:
If that's 8-9" then the cord is like 8 guage or something. Maybe s-video/audio/optical?*

David

*I didn't actually measure and calculate to figure out guage, but I'd say I'm about right.
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Assuming that it is 8-9", and that the cord coming out of it is a double ended deal (say a power and a video out for a TV took up?) then each tail of the cable is maybe 1/3" wide? That seems about right for a good shielded video cable, and the power one could be also given extra shielding to keep interference with the video cable down... just a thought. Very tough to say... part of me would love a 5G iPod sized PDA/media player, another part an 8" mini tablet...
 
Not sure if it means anything but the get info on the photo says this
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eMac calibrated

One would think if it was an actual photo it would have something along the lines of Canon 10E or something.
 
I've made a few notes to illustrate some of the points made so far. Feel free to add to it, rip it to shreds, etc.
 

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Peace said:
Not sure if it means anything but the get info on the photo says this
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eMac calibrated

One would think if it was an actual photo it would have something along the lines of Canon 10E or something.
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Its obvious this photo wasn't taken with a high quality camera.

My guess, is if it's real (very likely) it was taken with something like a camera phone, sent over to en eMac, and compressed in photoshop or preview or something.

And wouldn't DVD ripping be illegal? I don't see MS or Apple implementing it.
 
aspect ratio

the aspect ratio seems to be 16:10 just like the cinema displays.

here I have perspective corrected the photo, ( I could be off, but it seems about right)
 

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lars steenhoff said:
the aspect ratio seems to be 16:10 just like the cinema displays.

here I have perspective corrected the photo, ( I could be off, but it seems about right)
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Yeah, you seem to be correct. Just to show that better, I altered your image a bit
 

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yg17 said:
Its obvious this photo wasn't taken with a high quality camera.

My guess, is if it's real (very likely) it was taken with something like a camera phone, sent over to en eMac, and compressed in photoshop or preview or something.

And wouldn't DVD ripping be illegal? I don't see MS or Apple implementing it.
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Not if iTunes could apply a DRM while ripping it. The only problem I see is that someone could just circumvent that DRM placement like DVDJon did with the iTunes DRM.
 
yg17 said:
Its obvious this photo wasn't taken with a high quality camera.

My guess, is if it's real (very likely) it was taken with something like a camera phone, sent over to en eMac, and compressed in photoshop or preview or something.

And wouldn't DVD ripping be illegal? I don't see MS or Apple implementing it.
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It would be without permission... according to Paul Thurrott, DVD ripping to a protected WMV file in Vista was "announced" just before a developers conference last year. Here's the link: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_editions.asp (it's listed under the Home Premium Edition a little ways down).

I assume that if MS can get permission than so can Apple...

Not if iTunes could apply a DRM while ripping it. The only problem I see is that someone could just circumvent that DRM placement like DVDJon did with the iTunes DRM.
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The reapplication of DRM wouldn't effect the legality at all... they would have to have permission to decrypt it (from the content owner), and adding DRM to it after would HELP get that permission, I am sure... This is all in the US, land of the DCMA, at least.
 
yg17 said:
Yeah, you seem to be correct. Just to show that better, I altered your image a bit
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Wow. :eek:

Seriously this seems more probable every minute, especially with all the recent Apple patents. If this is a fake it has to be one of the best ever. If it's not I'll be buying one. :D
 
Diatribe said:
Not if iTunes could apply a DRM while ripping it. The only problem I see is that someone could just circumvent that DRM placement like DVDJon did with the iTunes DRM.
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iTunes adds DRM when you download off of iTunes, so there's no reason why it couldn't do the same for when you rip a DVD. Bring Handbrake to the masses!
 
Diatribe said:
Wow. :eek:

Seriously this seems more probable every minute, especially with all the recent Apple patents. If this is a fake it has to be one of the best ever. If it's not I'll be buying one. :D
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Ditto. If it's fake, someone is damn good at photoshop and has too much time on their hands.
 
thejadedmonkey said:
iTunes adds DRM when you download off of iTunes, so there's no reason why it couldn't do the same for when you rip a DVD. Bring Handbrake to the masses!
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Yes, but there all also ways to circumvent that. So I am not sure the MPAA is all open arms about that. But it definitely is possible, especially with H.264
 
To Further support the widescreen aspect i've superimposed a proportionately scaled image on top of the screen and adjusted its opacity.

Its pretty damn close, the slight difference can be put down to the perspective adjust of the original image being ever so slightly out.
 

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