Peter Oppenheimer on Apple iPhone and Apple TV

[MacVault]

Q: So mentioned the OS launch. Can you update us? Is the Leopard OS launch on time...
A: OK. Our next release of Mac OS X is called Leopard. We've previously announced that it will ship this Spring.

For some reason that answer makes me cringe. Not very reassuring.

And is Apple really having to strip features out of Leopard as did MS with Vista? I hope not. I'd rather them take another 6 months to release it with all features than give us a half baked update and make us wait another 2+ years for those stripped features.

 

[BigHat]

Video connectors 101:

composite = "the yellow plug for video"
S-video = "the round/multi-pin connector for video"
component = "the red green and blue plugs for video"
VGA = "essentially component video, but in a D-Sub connector"
DVI = "a digital version of VGA"
HDMI = "DVI+audio in a single miniature connector"

TV only supports component and HDMI though VGA and DVI should be doable with inexpensive adapters. The converters from component or HDMI to composite or S-video (which are the ports found on most TVs older than 5 years old) cost as much as the TV.

EDIT: I see you've been to Wiki for the answers. I left off some of the other connectors like SCART and other variants from accross the ages.

B

Thanks for posting this. My head was about to explode reading to assertive statements from people who obviously have NO idea what they are talking about.

Note: If you TV can't accept at least a component input -- go buy a new TV !!!

 

[imikem]

For the most obvious difference, component has a single plug for for the entire video spectrum. Composite has separate connectors for the red, green, and blue spectrums giving it about three times the output bandwidth compared to component video.

Umm, no. First off, your definitions are reversed. Composite video uses the single RCA plug, carrying all color and sync information, i.e., crap.

Component as implemented in the DVD world uses one plug to carry luminance (Y), and two carrying color information, labeled as YPbPr. Some older computer monitors carried RGB component video as BNC plugs, sometimes with a fourth carrying sync.

 

[dernhelm]

Umm, no. First off, your definitions are reversed. Composite video uses the single RCA plug, carrying all color and sync information, i.e., crap.

Component as implemented in the DVD world uses one plug to carry luminance (Y), and two carrying color information, labeled as YPbPr. Some older computer monitors carried RGB component video as BNC plugs, sometimes with a fourth carrying sync.

Right. I had Sun monitors with the 4 plugs. The looked great for a little while, but were extremely tempermental, prone to one plug or another getting wrenched around and broken, and most people really hated the things. DVI really was a godsend.

It amuses me the number of people that get confused about all this. I just tell people to remember: Composite is bad, component is good.

 

[AidenShaw]

You could fit an HD movie on a regular DVD disk with H.264.

You could fit an HD movie onto a CD with Sorenson, but would you want to watch it?

Take your "HD" DVD to a store that's showing movies from a Blu-ray on a 46" or so 1080p LCD. After watching the Blu-ray movie for a bit, put your "HD" DVD in.

Not a pretty picture, now is it?

 

[CrackedButter]

For some reason that answer makes me cringe. Not very reassuring.

And is Apple really having to strip features out of Leopard as did MS with Vista? I hope not. I'd rather them take another 6 months to release it with all features than give us a half baked update and make us wait another 2+ years for those stripped features.

Like which features, they haven't mentioned any bar the 10 we already got a preview of... and they exist. They haven't promised the earth like MS did with Vista.

Also on another note, why do people still insist on the idea of OSX for PC's, didn't they watch the keynote? I got the hint when Steve read a quote about being serious about the software, you have to be serious about the hardware as well. Hope it was a PC user who asked that silly question.

 

[Maccus Aurelius]

Hmmm.......licensing OS X to the OEM stream. Then people will clamor for firmware updates for their PC's from the Apple site like they do for macs. Pffffff I say.