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More Leopard Screenshots, Details Emerging?

AidenShaw said:
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.
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This is awesome info! But I'm kinda lost on a few things...

Is HDMI 1.3 a new spec altogether? Will my current HDTV be able to take advantage of HDMI 1.3 (Yes, I'm currently using HDMI)? Is it nothing more than a firmware upgrade or something or will I have to buy a whole new HDTV? And 1440p!?? TV's don't even go up that high yet. I don't even know what spec I'm currently using...how can I tell if I'm using HDMI 1.2?
 
Stridder44 said:
This is awesome info! But I'm kinda lost on a few things...

  1. Is HDMI 1.3 a new spec altogether?
  2. Will my current HDTV be able to take advantage of HDMI 1.3 (Yes, I'm currently using HDMI)?
  3. Is it nothing more than a firmware upgrade or something or will I have to buy a whole new HDTV?
  4. And 1440p!?? TV's don't even go up that high yet.
  5. I don't even know what spec I'm currently using...how can I tell if I'm using HDMI 1.2?
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  1. It's similar to the jump from USB1.1 to USB2.0 - a compatible speed increase. The higher speed enables the transfer of more information.
  2. No.
  3. Whole new TV and AV receiver and camera and disc player
  4. "Yet" is the operative word
  5. Check your manufacturer's spec sheets?

Check this link Toshiba Announces first HDMI 1.3-enabled HD DVD Player
 
BenRoethig said:
I'm hoping they'll get smart this time around and integrate the quicktime player into iTunes. Even better, they'll also announce they've purchased to the windows media codec from Flip4Mac and integrate into that package. Access to Yahoo and hotmail accounts through Mail would also be nice.
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Actually, Microsoft owns the windows media codec (hence "Windows") and I'm sure M$ won't let it go w/o a whole lot of money, if at all.
 
Details Emerging?

Does anyone know if the system requirements to run leopard have leaked out yet as one of the "Details Emerging?" I just got a mac mini not too long ago and am wondering if it's going to be able to handle leopard.
 
minimac23 said:
Does anyone know if the system requirements to run leopard have leaked out yet as one of the "Details Emerging?" I just got a mac mini not too long ago and am wondering if it's going to be able to handle leopard.
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You can check out the Leopard Page for details, but most of the core image stuff will work on older macs as well:

Two heads are better than one
Core Animation takes advantage of the multiple cores in most new Intel-based Macs. When developers use the framework for an application, the process runs in its own thread. On a multi-core Mac, this means the application runs on one core, and Core Animation on the other. Core Animation runs on any Core Image-capable Mac (including most Macs shipped in the past two years).
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Apple has been pretty proud of the fact that they are not requiring huge system upgrade to get the most out of Leopard, so most stuff will just work, and the other stuff should degrade pretty gracefully.

That said, it still feels to me like you're going to want an Intel Mac to get the most out of Leopard. But I've got a PowerPC based laptop that I'll be upgrading, so I'll let you know how it goes...
 
The big thing for me personally, would be for DRM'd WMV files to be playable. I don't have access to Satallite or cable, Freeview (free to air digital in the UK) is not going to be available in my region untill 2012 and iTunes has no movies or TV series available outside the US (still).

The few services that are offering video on demand over the net in the UK, all require Windows.

So for example, I can only see whatever football highlights are on Match of the Day, and if I miss that then thats it. Tottenham put extended highlights on the web as a subscription service. But of course just like everything these days its DRM'd and only avaliable to Windows users.

In my ideal world, there wouldn't be DRM. But as that problems not going to go away soon. If Apple announced that DRM'd WMVs would be playable through iTunes, then I'd be putting my £199 down for an Apple TV like a shot.

As it stands now, with no video content outside the US. Apple TV is just an Airport Express with the ability to show album art on my TV for double the price.
 
DMann said:
We'll likely see the most impressive of them a week before release...
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... or maybe there are no cool "top secret" features at all, and most of you will be utterly disappointed. I, for one, am not upping my expectations. I just wish they would do some improvements in CoreAudio and such for us musicians:)
 
Are you kidding?

guzhogi said:
Actually, Microsoft owns the windows media codec (hence "Windows") and I'm sure M$ won't let it go w/o a whole lot of money, if at all.
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Perhaps you've never noticed that every portable media player, and all of the "set top" media adapters (the things that have been around for more than a year, which Apple is copying with the Apple TV) play Windows Media audio and video?

Perhaps you didn't realize that all of the Blu-ray and HD-DVD players have Windows Media HD support?

On the contrary, Microsoft knows that dirt-cheap codecs are the way to get into the market.
 
Missing App

Sorry just joined thread now but if the rumors are to be correct of a missing app on the iphone I would have thought it would be a version of iwork07. Dont know what you guys think but it would fill the gap between the iPhone and other smart phones and also would make it much more desirable to me.
 
The Scotsman said:
Sorry just joined thread now but if the rumors are to be correct of a missing app on the iphone I would have thought it would be a version of iwork07. Dont know what you guys think but it would fill the gap between the iPhone and other smart phones and also would make it much more desirable to me.
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Yes, iWork would be useful... to a point. I can see the effectiveness of using the iPhone for presentations. Opening word documents will be important - though I don't know about creating documents. The quick "notes" feature in Leopards mail would be great in the phone.

When I try to think about what I'm bad at, and need to be better at... it's tracking all my receipts. I wouldn't mind taking a photo of my receipts and classifying my expenses on the go... but that's not really Apple's field.
 
VoIP for iChat would be so awesome. Apple already has the BT headset they are using for the iPhone so it would fit. Include a call flatrate into .mac and you have yourself a killer feature.

Besides that I can't really imagine what else Apple may have up its sleeve, I hope we won't be disappointed.
 
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