Comments on: Video Killed the Audio Star

By: DreamHost Blog » Apple Welcomes Us!

DreamHost Blog » Apple Welcomes Us! — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:36:02 +0000

[...] Remember back when I predicted there’d be a Video Airport Express? Well, I was a year-plus early, but I was right. [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:04:42 +0000

Regarding the vTunes/iVideo/iVidTunesMooCowBlah device, it’s actually a bit harder than you’d guess. You may be able to get *average* 8Mbps reliably on 802.11g, but what’s really hard is to get *minimum* 8Mbps, which is what really matters for streaming video. What I’m saying is, ignoring buffering (which tends not to help as much as you’d think), if the available wireless bandwith drops below 8Mbps just once while you’re watching your streamed 2-hour movie, it’ll pause and get rather jerky for whenever the problems are occuring.

I actually work with this type of technology, and it’s a lot more of a pain than you’d think. You can only really do this if you live in a place where your 2.4GHz RF environment is *very* clean. So that rules out pretty much any apartment building, townhouse/condo complex, or people with small houses on small plots of land where the houses are close together. Living here in Silicon Valley, that means basically everyone ^_~.

By: SleepingPoliceman » Blog Archive » One more take…

SleepingPoliceman » Blog Archive » One more take… — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:43:32 +0000

[...] Rumors were running rampant prior to yesterday’s media event at San Jose’s California Theater. According to “insiders,” Apple would unveil a new pink iPod nano containing Madonna’s entire music catalog, updated PowerMacs and/or PowerBooks, an Airport Express-type device for streaming movies to your television, a brand new iPod capable of playing video (which Steve Jobs has continuously said would never happen), and a slew of other unconfirmed rumors. Only one of those rumors actually came to fruition yesterday: the video iPod. But Apple had a few other tricks up its sleeve as well. [...]

By: Reid

Reid — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:57:10 +0000

video ipod was a good guess: http://www.apple.com/ipod/ipod.html

By: HiFi Blog -- Briefly: Video iPod pics?, Sony NW-A100/3000 pics, MS & RealNetworks settle lawsuit, Creative Zen Sleek review, Apple’s grafic EQ patent, Polk Audio LC265i-IP speakers, How vTunes should work

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:34:04 +0000

[...] How vTunes should work (where vTunes is the video equivalent of AirTunes; AppleInsider says it’s coming sooner or later, and duh, this makes sense — I’m more intrigued by the last bit of the post where he says he’s employed a similar solution with a modded Xbox, but that’s not the focus of this site here…) [] [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:45:28 +0000

Too bad DVD ripping software is illegal via the DMCA. Once the new law for the broadcast flag goes through then TV ripping will be for most things as well.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:22:28 +0000

Peter, it can still be done. 802.11n gear is just around the corner. Actually pre-802.11n has been out for a year (under the standard the name MIMO -multiple inputs, multiple outputs).

100mbits /8 = 12.5 Megabytes which is enough.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:46:10 +0000

http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39153138,00.htm

By: Anony Moos

Anony Moos — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 22:38:39 +0000

Pipe Dream fucking owned.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:05:01 +0000

Re: dividing speeds by EIGHT

I’ve found that the actual reason we do that isn’t because of theory vs implementation, but because in networking they talk about speeds in kilo-BITS, whereas we’re used to talking about kilo-BYTES, as for memory… (seems kinda sneaky that ISPs or hardware manufacturers can advertise speeds that are ‘8 times’ faster than in reality, but it’s simply a naming convention)

and as for vPods: I’m not interested in watching video on a little screen; and vTunes/Airport wouldn’t be revolutionary, but net delivery would definitely be (though from what I’ve read it won’t be happening anytime soon — the record companies are already getting mad at Apple)

-peter