Re: 5 Things AppleTV needs to be a MUST BUY by Apple Gazette

[Scott Anguish]

On Apr 6, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote:

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> On Apr 6, 2007, at 6:38 PM, Scott Anguish wrote:
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>> On Apr 6, 2007, at 5:57 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote:
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>>> #5 would be nice, but is easily overcome.  You can easily rip the  
>>> dvd.  It would be nice to chuck the dvd player though as well.
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>>    sorry, this isn't simple, or a solution at all really.
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>>    you have to rip and re-encode... and that's lossy.
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> Loss varies, most of the stuff I have ripped, the quality is good  
> enough.

	(rant, in general) This attitude (and it is wide spread) is not  
helping us get better quality content from people.

	'good enough' quality simply isn't.  DirecTV uses this excuse to ramp  
up compression.  Studios use it to produce crappy transfers to DVD.

	Studios could use it to ramp up compression on iTunes downloads.

	If I have the original content on DVD, and I've paid for it, I don't  
want it at a lesser quality.

	accepting lesser quality is a slippery slope.

>  And it is simple now.  Put in disc, launch program and hit a button  
> and tell it where to save it.  But It is an extra set of steps.
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	and hours of time. and you still lose quality in order to reencode it  
for the AppleTV.  It's a shame that it doesn't stream DVDs directly.  
And do some decent upconversion to boot.

	Why support 720p when we're required to rip our 480p content to an  
even lesser quality.