See the full thing here. Or, here’s what’s relevant:
I wrote that Apple TV can’t actually play high-def video, which is weird, considering that it requires a high-def (or “enhanced definition”) TV. There’s an almost-exception, though: if you have a high-def camcorder like the Canon HV10, using that Apple TV export option can convert it to 720p, 24 frames per second. That’s just barely HDTV quality–and Apple TV can play that.
(I think the reason that the Apple TV can’t do high-def video is that Apple’s being conservative here. It knows that Apple-holics would never stand for stuttering video caused by a slowish network, for example–so it capped the video data rate to ensure smooth playback always.)
It matters that it doesn’t output at 1080p because on a 1080p TV, it’s going to look like crap.
Unfortunately, WSN doesn’t practice commenter executions like Gawker, so I guess I’ll go with the alternative and respond.
Today’s NYT has an articleabout the economics of providing free wi-fi to customers, and looks in particular at Starbucks, McDonald’s and Panera. The first uses T-Mobile Hotspot for its wireless, which is not free (though I am using it right now, gratis, as part of a Vista promotion that gives you free access until May). McD’s charges $3 for two hours of access (unless you have a DS), and the latter provides its service free to snag the post-lunch-rush crowd that tends to linger.
It never comes right out to say it really, but in its conclusion the piece indirectly calls on $bux to bring on the free intertubes, as a kind of homage to the service movie theaters provided in the past.
What follows is the initial version of the column printed in WSN on Tuesday, before I decided after comments from other opinion writers that it was too self-indulgent and not altogether cohesive in its use of “internet famous,” leading to a near total shitcanning of the entire piece. Well, blogging’s all about being self-indulgent, and I can excuse it as “a look at my writing and the opinion editing process,” so here it is, in all of its nearly aborted glory.
Typically, you can take one of two routes to attain that fleeting level of notoriety known as “internet famous.” Route one: you’re a dickhead. Route two: the person who makes you internet famous is a dickhead. Clearly, there is a pattern. Let’s explore.
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