iTV, cablecard, .n

[Matt Johnston]

On 11 Dec 2006, at 23:39, rogerhoward at rogerroger.org wrote:

> Front Row has access to the complete Quicktime stack. Unless the iTV  
> is a repackaged Mac Mini, I would seriously doubt that *anything*  
> that can be played in Front Row will be playable on iTV. Granted  
> most people just think simple video/audio when they think Quicktime,  
> but QT playback on Mac and Windows supports far, far more, and I'd  
> be shocked to ever see all that functionality available on a device  
> like iTV. More likely, we'll see a subset of what's playable in  
> Quicktime - more like iTV will support what iPod supports (and  
> perhaps extended to support higher resolution).

Ah, but iTunes converts the AAC, WAV, MP3 files in itunes to a  
standard format (Apple Lossless) for the Airport Express.

I would have thought that the iTV would essentially do the same.  
Course it would mean a lot of processing on the client side.....

M