yet to u apple toting the retina display - u go gaga for it!
You are very bias
are u kidding me u fanboy?
Oh you...First try proper sentence structure, before you start calling names. He is, in fact, quite critical of Apple at times, but you knew this, right? Please, before you start making baseless accusations, do lurk more.
How great would it be to show up with a movie or tv show u downloaded from iTunes and play it on a large plasma or LCD? Yah sounds pretty useless to me fanboy!
Oh wait! When apple releases it's own hdmi out on their iPhone you will love it!
Let's talk about this for a second, shall we. For one, the Droid X is a lower resolution screen (800 x 480), as many, many, many people have already said. Reading is awesome. Unless they upgraded the screen in the short period between the demo given a few weeks ago and now (not happening), the display is, and will be, a lower resolution. Since you're so set on fanboy crazes, it should do you well to know that this is from engadget, a notoriously anti-apple site. Here's the quote:
Update: We just confirmed that the Droid X prototype we saw had an 854 x 480 display, so we'll have to see if Motorola and Verizon have a serious surprise for us come Wednesday -- we know at least one Engadget editor who's crossing his fingers.
And no, they didn't change the final production model in a week to include a higher res screen; this **** has to be tested extensively first.
As for the video out; no, I won't love it. Clearly you have no concept of true high-def movies, no, rather of any codecs at all. This Droid X is only pushing 720p. Whoop de do. Will it play mkvs? No. This means your "HD" iTunes releases can be played at their naive resolution, but of course we all know this isn't really high-def and of course the Droid doesn't even have iTunes in the first place. Furthermore, its not going to be pushing DTS or anything else, so I say why bother? If your only point is to "play it on a large plasma or LCD" you also clearly forget about display technologies too... but that's a different point. The bottom line is this; all that 720p out is going to enable you to do is the following: 1) have ****** battery life (as in really crappy), 2) have a ****** picture from your low res file, 3) force you to buy SD memory to hold your ****** file (this is a droid, after all), 4) and have ****** sound. It's a lot of ****.
A good 720p-1080p rip that's not TrueHD or anything crazy like that takes 8-20 GB, something you're not going to have on a phone. Most of my 720p rips are 8-15GB. Sounds real practical, right? Plus can the battery even last a whole movie with output like that? I mean if you're near a TV, you'd be better just to plug in the HTPC that's near it, or a laptop, or a desktop... there's just so many better options.
Also, did you know the GUI isn't hardware accelerated? Enjoy your 720p with that.
