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More Leopard Screenshots, Details Emerging?

patseguin said:
Still not hearing anything that makes me overly excited about Leopard...
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That's what I initially thought about Tiger too. But I must say that Spotlight (with it's short comings) has really changed the way I work. Before I was always very busy organizing stuff, and I hardly spend time doing that anymore.

Hope Leopard has some killer app on board like Spotlight, maybe Time Machine
 
puuukeey said:
theres a sh*t ton of things apple *could* do with itv. but they wont because they are so damned proprietary. so sorry rest of the world. no open standard use itms or nothing at all.


goodbye bliptv google video, gootube, flickr, etc etc.
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perhaps one OBVIOUS thing apple could do with AppleTV is allow it to receive cable/antenna so mac users (who don't have plasmas) can hook it up to their computers and have a "built in LCD TV"... there aren't a whole lot of student living on res that have plasmas in their dorm rooms (or even tvs), but they all seem to have imacs and macbooks...
 
EyeTV Is Already HDTV On Any Mac For Only $150

Darkroom said:
perhaps one OBVIOUS thing apple could do with AppleTV is allow it to receive cable/antenna so mac users (who don't have plasmas) can hook it up to their computers and have a "built in LCD TV"... there aren't a whole lot of student living on res that have plasmas in their dorm rooms (or even tvs), but they all seem to have imacs and macbooks...
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That product already exists. Are you unfamiliar with how the $150 EyeTV works? It's an analog and digital SD & HDTV USB tuner, recorder. editor, display product. Plug it into a MacBook, iMac or Mac Pro and you have instant HDTV on any modern Mac's display. :)
 
Multimedia said:
That product already exists. Are you unfamiliar with how the $150 EyeTV works? It's an analog and digital SD & HDTV USB tuner, recorder. editor, display product. Plug it into a MacBook, iMac or Mac Pro and you have instant HDTV on any modern Mac's display. :)
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yes i know about this. what i don't know is why apple isn't TOTALLY including the same thing into the AppleTV... the EyeTV is after all just a USB dongle...
 
Multimedia said:
I meant launch them from the finder directly into QuickTime Player's Full Screen Mode.
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Thanks for the explanation. I'm sure there's some way to do that but the command-F shortcut has been good enough for me. :)

So far AppleTV is not advertised as allowing this way of playing QT files.
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Current :apple:TV specs say it's limited to MPEG-4 and H.264 playback, similar to what the iPod supports. Apple may be intentionally omitting capabilities in what's published, at least before product shipping.

I don't want to load my multiple Terrabytes of mp4 files into iTunes if I can avoid that approach. :eek:
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One alternative would be to add them to iTunes as reference files with the Movie2iTunes droplet.
 
Darkroom said:
what i don't know is why apple isn't TOTALLY including the same thing into the AppleTV... the EyeTV is after all just a USB dongle...
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The "why isn't :apple:TV a DVR?" topic has already been beaten to death in too many other threads.
 
patseguin said:
Still not hearing anything that makes me overly excited about Leopard...
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same here

i also have to say that judging from these screenshots the spotlight results window redesign looks worse than what is included with tiger right now.

do you guys open most of your files directly from the spotlight results? i always want to see where they are and not having a button that shows your selection in the finder is a show stopper for me. yeah i know you can command click in the results but that only works in the small drop down results window and it shouldn't be that hidden...
 
toomuchrock said:
Also I need to hunt for a contextual menu so I can right click (ahem) and choose cut on a file instead of copying and pasting and then going back and deleting. Surely someone has that for me. But yeah that's about all in the Windows world that I miss on my Mac.
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You know that you can do this by holding the apple key whilst dragging the file to the new location right?

If you've got a lot of folders to go through to get to where you want to move the file to then drag it without holding the apple key as this stops finder opening a new window for each folder you navigate to. Then when you reach the folder you want, press the apple key and hold (you'll notice that the green plus sign disappears) then let go of the mouse button and then you will have cut and pasted in one easy manner.
 
AidenShaw said:
720p ??? What about "True HD (1080p)" slogans that you see plastered all over the flat panel TV ads?
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You know people keep complaining about this but the way I see it is that 1080p is a small market (mostly US) at this time and not mainstream at all. Hell, my DVD player (which is fairly new) is not 1080p. The television set I'm looking at is a 32", and they don't even offer it in 1080p - and I don't want a bigger set than that. 1080p is for tomorrow and hard core enthusiasts who have the space to put an enormous television set in their homes. Why would we want to pay extra to support 1080p when most of us won't have televisions to view it on? AppleTV 1080p can be an upgrade or option or more expensive version in the future after they get this damn (base) thing out the door.
 
longofest said:
The screen sharing thing would be nice for presentations, etc
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Forget screen mirroring or sharing... that's nice but it means your remote screen is identical to your local screen.

Why not expand the possibilities - let me remotely (on the AppleTV) login as me, while my partner simultaneously uses the Mac logged in as her.

Talk about mystery apps on the iPhone - what would happen if my iPhone could remotely login to my Mac over any wifi or EDGE connection? There are criticisms that you can't install 3rd party apps on the iPhone - what if you could run any app that runs on your Mac?

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lazydog said:
how about also controlling it, ie effectively making the AppleTV a thin client. In this way you could have the Mac in one room and several 'terminals' around the house each with its own login session.
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Just noticed lazydog got there before me, for the remote terminal idea generally :)
 
sjk said:
One alternative would be to add them to iTunes as reference files with the Movie2iTunes droplet.
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Thank you so much for this! This saves me having to convert every movie or tv show I have on my hard drive to .mp4 format. I don't have a video iPod so it would have been extremely annoying.
 
Don't forget that Steve is limited to the little n after 802.11. 1080p movies would require better speed IMO, if you take in consideration the distance and the obstacles (the loss of signal).

I don't understand if their new 802.11n router is 200mbps or 600 mbps though.

Maybe in the next generation of :apple:TV, he's going to jump to 1080p and skip 1080i.

What I've heard though is that 720p is a better choice than 1080i, so maybe he isn't that wrong after all.
 
Multimedia said:
I meant launch them from the finder directly into QuickTime Player's Full Screen Mode. So far AppleTV is not advertised as allowing this way of playing QT files. I don't want to load my multiple Terrabytes of mp4 files into iTunes if I can avoid that approach. :eek:
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If you drag any file into iTunes with the "option" key held down, iTunes will "add it to the list" without making an additional copy in your iTunes Library (assuming your default is for iTunes to keep your Library consolidated). I've done this with my many GB of videos on the giant external hard drive of my G5 tower, and Front Row on the networked Mac mini hooked to the TV finds them just fine...presumably so will AppleTV :)

Of course then I was compelled to find DVD cover art for all those videos so I could watch them dancing around in Coverflow. :rolleyes:
 
Don't you expect Apple to be leading edge, not trailing edge?

WilliamLondon said:
You know people keep complaining about this but the way I see it is that 1080p is a small market (mostly US) at this time and not mainstream at all. Hell, my DVD player (which is fairly new) is not 1080p.
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The "people complaining" are only those who've seen 720 and 1080 formats side-by-side.... ;)

"True HD" (1080p) seems to be the future of television - at least from what I saw at CES in Las Vegas. A year from now, expect it to be firmly in the mainstream.

Like the Apple Phone's use of EDGE instead of HSDPA for internet access, the Apple TV's lack of support for 1080i or 1080p is giving you yesterday's technology - tomorrow.

Here's a DMA (Digital Media Adapter) from D-Link (http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=438) - it has 1080i and supports WMV/MPEG1/MPEG2/MPEG4/XviD/AVI video, audio MP3/WAV/AIFF/WMA/OggVorbis. (Five other DMAs from D-Link at http://www.dlink.com/products/category.asp?cid=127&sec=0)

Here's a Netgear 1080p DMA that's coming soon. Here's a Buffalo LinkTheatre with 1080i, builtin progressive scan DVD player, and support for many video (DAT, MPG, MPE, MPEG, M2V, M1V, VOB, AVI, ASF, DIVX, DIVX HD, XVID, RMP4, MP4, VRO, M4V, M2P, HNL, WMV, WMV HD) and audio (MP3, MP2, OGG, WAV, AAC, WMA, PLS, M4A, AC3, MP1, MPA, ASF, M3U) formats.
(Note - some of the pages on this device say 720p, others say 720p and 1080i)

If you want to learn about how these devices automatically discover and catalog media files on your home network, see the DLNA pages at http://www.dlna.org/en/consumer/learn/technology/ .
 
PsykX said:
Don't forget that Steve is limited to the little n after 802.11. 1080p movies would require better speed IMO, if you take in consideration the distance and the obstacles (the loss of signal)....
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It has an RJ45 jack - why not offer 1080i/p for those of us with Cat6 runs to the TV? (or powerline or whatever)

Other companies are selling DMAs with 1080 support using A/G and N wireless.

By the way, HD-DVD discs are 36 Mbps, and Blu-ray discs are max (1X) of 54 Mbps.
 
Is eyeTV and whatever TV options there are for mac as good as what is available for windows boxes?
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I have Eye TV and it's a nice little product. That said, Windows Media Center has a superior UI and far superior program guide. BTW....don't start coming down on me 'cause I mentioned a MS product I like. :eek: I switched about 6 months ago and have never looked back.

I disagree - calendar integration with the phone is a killer app.
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I think you hit the nail squarely on the head. The *only* Windows program I still run (via Parallels) is a calender/database app. called Lotus Organizer. If iCal integrates seamlessly with iPhone, there goes the last of my Windows apps.......

It's an analog and digital SD & HDTV USB tuner
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I think it's important to point out that the only HD content Eye TV (or any other similar product for that matter) will display is OTA HD.
 
Multimedia said:
Thanks For Explaining Apple's "Fake HD" Specification
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You're welcome.


Multimedia said:
I find 720p less than satisfactory. It really blows.
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Check out HDMI 1.3 for what's coming in the future....

http://www.audioholics.com/techtips/specsformats/HDMI13specificationQA.php, or Yahoo! for "hdmi 1.3"

Support for 1440p and 2160p, 48-bit color (Apple will probably call that "Trillions of colors").

HDMI 1.3 also supports the xvYCC color standard, which can display "any color found in nature" - far more than RGB can display.

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In this picture, the black triangle contains the RGB color space, the rest of the colored area shows the xvYCC color space.
 
Camera Crap

cloudnine said:
And how, pray tell, would that happen when the camera is on the back of the phone and the display is on the front of the phone? Video ichat on the iphone isn't going to happen... No, nay, negative, false, incorrect... No no no.
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For crying out loud to this and all of the posts talking about sharing internals, et cetera. The iPhone is $600. The optical camera components for a mobile are a) tiny and b) pennies. There will probably be two of them, one on the front and one on the back. Besides, that would also explain why the "microphone" on the iPhone is the same size and form factor as the iSight camera on the MacBooks. After all, you can get great microphone access with a pinhole next to the camera.
 
devman said:
Originally Posted by AidenShaw
The "people complaining" are only those who've seen 720 and 1080 formats side-by-side....​

http://blog.hometheatermag.com/geoffreymorrison/090806more1080p/

http://blog.hometheatermag.com/geoffreymorrison/0807061080iv1080p/
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edit "The 'people complaining' are only those who've seen 720 and 1080 formats side-by-side at an ideal seating distance...." ;)

Yes, on a small set or from a long distance, 720 and 1080 look the same. With a good source and ideal seating, you can tell.

(those links recommend sitting at a distance that's 3 to 5 times the height of the screen, which means that for a mid-sized 46" panel you should sit 6 to 9 feet away.)

By the way, I'm not sure that double-blind tests would support the assumptions about pixel resolution in those links. The human visual perception is more complex than his simple geometry supposes.
 
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