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Media Event Updates. New iMac? New App?

dongmin said:
Sounds like FrontRow will control your iMac (or other Macs?) from the initial reports. That's fine with me since I don't own a TV and I do all my DVD watching on my Mac (with a Dell LCD).
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That would actually work well for me... I use a DVI to HDMI adaptor to plug my mini into my 30" HDTV... sadly the mini doesn't have enough juice to decode HD level H.264 video :( Does decent resolution (~800x400 or so) MPEG4, though, whch is still pretty nice.

maybe when I get an Intel iBook my wife won't get the mini and I will just put it under the TV instead...
 
spade said:
Music Video available for purchase in iTunes6, 2k available videos now!
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That's funny. Didn't they JUST release iTunes 5? So it took several years to go from 4 to 5, but a few weeks to get to 6.
 
dongmin said:
That's funny. Didn't they JUST release iTunes 5? So it took several years to go from 4 to 5, but a few weeks to get to 6.
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That's what I was wondering. If the expand from music videos to TV shows to movies at that kind of speed, I won't complain, however.
 
Macrumors SURE owned all the mac news sites out there... congrats

owned list: (complete if you want)
Macnn.com
TheMacObserver.com
Engadget (they only copied info from MR)
 
Dr.Gargoyle said:
So front row is an app in iMacs? Not the rumored iHome?
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Front Row = physical remote

not sure which is the utility/app that runs it. i assume it'll probably be just a control panel.
 
I'm pretty stoked about the new iMac. Even thinner with a remote control? That's pretty awesome. Now if only it had a TV tuner built in...

I really hope Front Row has a smooth, sleek, Tivo/MythTV style interface for managing media and that they make it available to all Macintosh computers...because then I'd just have to buy a mini, soup up the hard drive, and bam! Better than a MythTv box.
 
spade said:
Steve showing off demo of video from iPod to tv screen. Same mini jack connectors from iPod photos. :( Bummer.
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I wonder what the highest res videos the iPod has enough power to decode and display on a TV is... It takes some pretty hefty CPU lifting to do high resolution/bittrate h.264, and if it's limited to some wimpy video quality, I'm not interested.
 
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