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

[Scott Anguish]

On Apr 6, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote:

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> Howdy All,
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> I'm responding to Scott's email here, but the comments are not  
> directed at his view per se, I am just using his email since I  
> believe it brings up some interesting issues.
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> On 07/04/2007, at 7:06 AM, Scott Anguish wrote:
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>> On Apr 6, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote:
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>>> Loss varies, most of the stuff I have ripped, the quality is good  
>>> enough.
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>>    (rant, in general) This attitude (and it is wide spread) is not  
>> helping us get better quality content from people.
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>>    'good enough' quality simply isn't.  DirecTV uses this excuse to  
>> ramp up compression.  Studios use it to produce crappy transfers to  
>> DVD.
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>>    Studios could use it to ramp up compression on iTunes downloads.
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> Could?
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> Don't forget until recently a lot of people have been espousing how  
> great 128 kbps AAC is!

	audio is significantly different than video.  the compression is much  
more noticeable...

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> I doubt Steve Jobs listens to iTunes tracks on his hi-fi or watches  
> iTunes movies on his TV.
>

	my guess is that he listens to iTunes on an iPod HIFI, and doesn't  
watch TV.