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(Better Yet) New iTV!

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Post September 13th, 2006, 10:22 pm

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(You won't find anything on the apple site about this unless you watch the "Special Event" video.)

Apple is going to release a new product in 2007 (Q?, announcement in Q1) that will play/display everything you have in terms of digital media on your tv (mainly for HDTV's? hopefully). It looks pretty interesting. So, basically the Front Row app on its own device which can upscale resolution for your big screen TV.

Here are some pics:

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Says "802.11g Wireless Networking, No Power Brick, USB2.0, Ethernet"

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Says "HDMI, Component Video, Audio, Optical Audio"

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Post September 13th, 2006, 10:36 pm

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engadget.com also helps if you want daily crap about gadgets, they were at the event and covered it live

the thing looks good, but i dont have enough of my life on my computer to want to get one when it comes out or even later

Post September 14th, 2006, 12:45 pm

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Upscaleing video? Theres only so much you can upscale before the image gets distorted, unless there is a new process to do so other than the current norms.

MMMm, any bigger pics of it?

Post September 14th, 2006, 1:07 pm
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ITV is a rather different thing here. It's a less than pathetic broadcaster! [lol]

Post September 14th, 2006, 1:42 pm

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In regards to the upscaling, they use h.264, which can do a pretty good job when upscaled, and since it uses h.264, it doesn't have to upsacle that much


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