Tag: 1080p

The new Apple TV is rocking an A5 and 512 MB of RAM

It was only a matter of time until someone decided to crack open the new Apple TV to see what’s inside. As usual, Apple isn’t...
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1080p iTunes movies are almost as good as Blu-Ray

So, Apple has upped the quality of their high definition movies on iTunes to 1080p. Good news, right? That’s the same quality as Blu-Rays, right?...
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A5 Apple TV 3 possibly in the works, references found in iOS 5

Being an extreme fan of the Apple TV since its first debut, I find this rumor to be incredibly satisfying. References to a new device...
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Code strings show that iOS 5 will allow 1080p video export

Besides the widely announced new features of Apple’s Camera app in iOS 5, there also seem to be some under-the-hood improvements available to all users...
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Apple TV sales to pass 1 million units — Are we impressed yet?

Apple just announced today that they expect sales of the Apple TV to pass 1 million units sometime later this week. A million of anything...
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iMovie ’11 Exports 1080p

iMovie ’11 gained a feature that didn’t get a mention during Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event, but is a pretty great addition to the...
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iPhone OS based AppleTV to sell for $99?

After Google announced that they were planning on partnering with some television manufacturers to bring Android enabled televisions to the masses, we speculated that the...
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Moving from ‘i’ to ‘we’ with the WePad

After having the opportunity to play around with an iPad the other night, I was made aware of its apparent European competitor: the WePad. Built...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Video: Part One

Complexity is an unfortunate byproduct of technology. Many substantial innovations we have seen in the last hundred or so years are very hard to understand on the surface. The process of compression is incredibly hard to understand in full unless you feel like studying volumes upon volumes of specifications for codecs (Compressor/Decompressors). Luckily, we don’t have to understand the intricacies of compression to use it handily. Before I continue further about compression, there are some important highlights about video sources that I need to touch on.
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