RE: How Apple's iTV media strategy works

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A tad too much caffiene this morning Ian? :-D

(But I know what you mean ...)

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Ian Lowe
> Sent: 13 September 2006 16:28
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] How Apple's iTV media strategy works
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> It misses out two things though - it doesn't make reference
> to Apple's corporate motto: "Be Evil" and presumes that
> 802.11n is going to be any better than any of the other
> disappointingly slow 802.11 incarnations.
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> 540Mbs max, 200Mbs typical?
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> All together now.. "arse".
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> It'll be 60Mbs with a tail wind and nobody looking at it
> funny if it's lucky.
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> It's one of those things - cool new tech is always welcome,
> but when it comes from such an Evil company as apple (DRM,
> evil business practices, sweatshop labour, etc etc etc) I
> can't help but feel I don't really want to encourage them.
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> I mean, let's face it.. Apple's strategy is pretty much -
> sucker them in with a nice easy to use interface, the DRM
> them into the floor so that they can never, ever, go
> somewhere else without buying the whole lot all over again.
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> HDMI was practically stillborn as soon as the ability of the
> studio to downgrade the signal for non HDCP devices was made
> public - and this whole promise not to use it till 2008 is
> frankly nonsense.
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> The number of people being bitten by iTMS an their 5-cpu
> limit is rising, and Apple are being forced to grant extra
> uses - how bad will the consumer reaction be when Joe Punter
> finds that his two grand plasma won't play any content from
> his swanky new HD-DVD, because it doesn't support HDCP?
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> I like the look of HD, but I'm screwed if I will be buying
> all of these box sets and movies again, only to find myself
> locked into DRM handcuffs..
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> I.
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of David Ward
> Sent: 13 September 2006 15:44
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] How Apple's iTV media strategy works
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> Interesting article.
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> Dave
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