Dan Cameron - Latest Comments in Today’s Apple announcement

Re: Today’s Apple announcement

JaredB — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:42:18 -0000

It was a joke; I don't actually think they'll do it, nor do I really know anything about this device.

At the same time, I wouldn't be completely surprised if they did try something like this, though. Evidence of Apple's behavior suggests to me that iTunes only plays MP3s because MP3 was a widely adopted standard by a significant enough number of consumers (and device manufacturers) that they could not ignore it. I don't think you could make the same statement today about video file formats.

Re: Today’s Apple announcement

dancameron — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:13:32 -0000

lol

Re: Today’s Apple announcement

nstryker — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:11:23 -0000

yeah, cuz itunes doesn't play standard mp3s.

Re: Today’s Apple announcement

dancameron — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:07:40 -0000

I'm willing to bet that won't be the case, $20?.

That's something Microsoft would do though, oh wait they already have with the XBOX 360. Only on the 360 they opened it up just a little, it only allows streaming of WMV files from only a WMCE computer. The WMCE Extenders are the same.

If Apple where to apply any restriction it would be MPEG-4 streaming, which isn't too bad but as you speculate just H.264 would suck. But then again it won't happen that way.

Re: Today’s Apple announcement

JaredB — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:14:45 -0000

Re: the iTV - They'll probably build it to only play Apple protected content that you buy from the iTunes video store...