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12/6/2005 2:58:12 PM

hahahahahaha

12/6/2005 3:12:14 PM

i'll be damned.... All those years of watching Knight Rider, and apparently I never actually understoond what it was all about



I guess at that age I was just facinated with the talking car and Hasselhoff's stunning chest hair


(btw - $35.99 for the whole season? come on - i could get 10 times better quality for the same price buying the dvd. How 'bout some volume discount here? I'm thinking $20 tops for entire seasons of vintage shows)


[Edited on December 6, 2005 at 3:19 PM. Reason : .]

12/6/2005 3:16:36 PM

12/6/2005 3:18:53 PM

some of us don't have itunes on our work computer

summary plz

what other shows are online?

12/6/2005 3:21:41 PM

here's the new agreement with NBC http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/dec/06nbc.html

11 new shows -

Quote :

" NBC’s “Law & Order,” “The Office,” “Surface,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Late Night with Conan O'Brien,” the USA Network’s Emmy Award-winning “Monk” and Sci-Fi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica” as well as classic TV shows including “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Dragnet,” “Adam-12” and “Knight Rider, "

in addition to Desperate Housewives, Lost, and 3 others i can't think of

12/6/2005 3:26:09 PM

the conan o'brian shit is rediculous - no one is paying $2 to watch a 5 minute clip that's been all over the internet for 4-5 year

12/6/2005 3:35:52 PM

Yes they will.

12/6/2005 3:38:27 PM

Whats the quality?
saves torrent time lol

12/6/2005 3:39:14 PM

they're optimized to watch on a video iPod, so 320x240.....

btw, the original shows they annouced were Lost, Desperate Housewives, Nightstalker, That's so Raven, and The Suite Life of Jack and Cody

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051012-5422.html


edit
and while 320x240 may sound very low, considering you're probably using a computer monitor with 1024x768 or up to 1600x1200, recall that normal NTSC TV only broadcasts at 480x330, while HDTV is up to 1920x1080

I think Apple should at least offer NTSC quality shows for download, then iTunes could do some down-sampling when you drop it on your iPod. But for shows like The Office which are broadcast in HDTV, it's worthless to spend $2 for a crappy 320x240 version.

[Edited on December 6, 2005 at 3:52 PM. Reason : resolution]

12/6/2005 3:43:52 PM

Apple's original lineup:

ABC:
Lost
Desperate Housewives
NightStalker

Disney:
Jack & Cody
That's so Raven


Apple's latest offerings:

USA:
Monk

Sci-Fi:
Battlestar Gallactica
Battlestar Gallactica Miniseries

NBC:
Law & Order
The Office
Surface
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Classic:
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Dragnet
Adam-12
Knight Rider

12/6/2005 3:47:36 PM

Quote :

"Nightstalker"

SOMEONE QUICK
LET SouthPaW12 KNOW!!!

and i'm not gonna lie

if i had the cash lying around to buy a video pod, and could get all the episodes of The Office
and could rip my ATHF dvds into whatever format, i'd buy it in a heartbeat

seriously, is there any personal ripping option?
can i rip my dvds yet?

[Edited on December 6, 2005 at 4:23 PM. Reason : ???]

12/6/2005 4:21:42 PM

^ iTunes/iPod will play back MP4 video files.

I have a few videos from other sources that work. Some websites that have video are now releasing iPod versions. There is even some wildly successful iPorn.

Quote :

"Whats the quality? saves torrent time lol"

When the iPod is plugged into a TV or playing it on a computer at full screen it looks pretty much like it would on TV. It is not DVD quality but it is 'good enough'.

Review:

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/video-ipod.ars

[Edited on December 6, 2005 at 4:30 PM. Reason : +]

12/6/2005 4:29:48 PM

are you asking if you can rip your DVDs to your computer? Yes - you've always been able to.

or as you asking if you can put those rips onto a video iPod? Yes, with some hacks
http://www.google.com/search?q=rip+dvd+to+ipod

12/6/2005 4:31:11 PM

^i was definitely asking the latter

12/6/2005 4:58:18 PM

i have both the UTporn and The Transporter on my ipod

12/6/2005 5:09:13 PM

if they put farscape, firefly, or ATHF on itunes... I'd probably fall for it and buy a damn ipod video..

12/6/2005 5:41:58 PM

Quote :

"recall that normal NTSC TV only broadcasts at 480x330"

NTSC TV is 640x480

12/6/2005 5:44:21 PM

actually it's 648 x 486,

but those pixels are extra really.

[Edited on December 6, 2005 at 6:01 PM. Reason : ]

12/6/2005 5:58:14 PM

If you want to nitpick, I'm sure it is.

But then we have to have the conversation about overscan and TV safe and everything.

Plus, 640x480 sounds nice and round.

12/6/2005 6:02:33 PM

I have a video iPod. I use this method to get DVDs onto it and you don't really need "hacks": http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/guides.html#1000

It's easy.
1 - Rip DVD
2 - Run that program, converts it to h264 (this thing works fast too, I encoded Batman Begins in like 40 minutes)
3 - Add it to iTunes same way you add a song


Now it would be really nice if iTunes did all this for you in one step the way it will rip a CD and add it to your library.

12/6/2005 6:08:48 PM

^^ haha yeah, I was just being a bitch because you were correcting someone.

^I think the MPAA would eat them alive if they did that without gettin some kind of deal signed, and some DRM type assurances.

[Edited on December 6, 2005 at 6:13 PM. Reason : ]

12/6/2005 6:11:17 PM

they should offer higher resolutions for us computer users

[Edited on December 6, 2005 at 6:28 PM. Reason : dsf]

12/6/2005 6:28:44 PM

agentlion, I find myself thinking... couldn't they have written that Knight Rider synopsis in a way where they would have avoided saying "K. I. T. T. K. I. T. T." Not the best thing to end a sentence with if you are going to start the next sentence with it. And shouldn't it be "K. I. T. T.. K. I. T. T." anyway.

12/7/2005 9:15:39 AM

Quote :

"And shouldn't it be "K. I. T. T.. K. I. T. T." anyway."

no

but yea, that's a horribly written synopsis.

12/7/2005 9:19:57 AM

^sure enough.

http://web.mit.edu/comdor/editguide/other/punctuation.html

12/7/2005 9:29:03 AM

^^^ yeah, and apparently they haven't upgraded their CrazyCode yet - they have two random [br/][/br] stuck in there where they want a paragraph break

12/7/2005 9:31:15 AM

http://web.mit.edu/comdor/editguide/other/punctuation.html

Quote :

"To form the possessive, add an ’s to a singular term that does not end in an s. If the term is plural or ends in s, add only an apostrophe. Incorrect: Mr. Jones’s"

Bullshit.
That's completely correct.

http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html

Quote :

"Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's. Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write, Charles's friend Burns's poems the witch's malice"

12/7/2005 11:11:07 AM

ha, like i'm going to take grammar advice from a mit.edu site

12/7/2005 11:24:23 AM

^^, ^ meh, it was the first link that google spit out for whatever it was I searched on. I figure they would know better than Mr. Jones' website.

12/7/2005 9:19:30 PM

The punctuation comment is correct, but that thing about apostrophes is dead fucking wrong. Bookmark Strunk and White from Bartleby.com.

12/8/2005 12:37:53 AM

Oh NO THEY DIIIIDDNNNN'T




here's a new batch of TV they put up on iTunes Store
The N - South of Nowhere (Season 1)
SOAPnet - Soapography (Season 1)
Nickelodeon - SpongeBob SquarePants (Season 1), Dora the Explorer (Season 1), Zoey 101
MTV - Beavis and Butt-Head, Laguna Beach, Wonder Showzen, Gauntlet 2, My Super Sweet 16 (Season 1-2), Jackass, Punk'd (Season 1-3)
Comedy Central - South Park (Season 1-2), Drawn Together (Season 1-2), Best of Comedy Central Stand-Up
ABC Family - Wildfire (Season 1-2)

See this page for direct links to the shows in iTunes
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2006/1/26/2670

Seriously though, Apple is cleaning up here early on in the Video/TV for download. They are keeping up with many of the current popular shows and bringing out all sorts of classics that geeks will greedily buy like crazy. They really really need higher quality downloads though....

1/27/2006 3:07:47 PM

OH SHIT, SOUTH OF NOWHERE

1/27/2006 4:07:52 PM

is there anyway to convert this to avi?

1/27/2006 4:13:30 PM

Why would you want to? That's called data loss.

1/27/2006 4:59:03 PM

^^ dumb

1/27/2006 6:37:28 PM

Quote :

"international superstar david hasselhoff"

1/27/2006 8:12:03 PM

i'm not sure what to say about this one, except who the fuck is the dude in the upper left with the spikey hair!

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTVSeason?id=122654604


But hey, i'm glad to see Apple is broadening their horizon's with this one

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=122984591

2/14/2006 5:38:17 PM

Quote :

"who the fuck is the dude in the upper left with the spikey hair!"

MAX
as in
"The Max"
as in
"Lets go get some fries from the Max"

2/14/2006 5:50:45 PM

You can now download FREE the pilot episode of NBC's new show Conviction about a week and a half before the pilot.

pretty interesting idea actually and one I hope catches on.

2/21/2006 6:48:28 PM

Quote :

"MAX as in "The Max" as in "Lets go get some fries from the Max""

he was always doing magic tricks for the kids

2/21/2006 7:11:54 PM

universal HD has HD-Remastered episodes of Knight Rider now

2/21/2006 10:07:33 PM

this is a good idea -
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2006/3/14/3188
Put the entire NCAA tournament on iTunes - at $1.99 a game, or $19.99 for all 63 games (31 cents/game)

3/15/2006 4:00:56 AM

uhm

are they live?

WHY THE FUCK DO I WANT ALL 64 GAMES ON MY IPOD THE DAY AFTER THEY'RE PLAYED?

3/15/2006 10:02:45 AM

BECAUSE

IF YOUR TEAM DOESNT SUCK'

AND WINS THE TOURNAMENT

YOU GET TO HAVE A VIDEO RECORD OF IT

NOT THAT YOU'D KNOW AS A STATEFAN

BUT IT HAPPENS TO OTHER PEOPLE.

3/15/2006 10:28:59 AM

because people like to archive this kind of shit. If, for example, NCSU made it to the championship game, tons of people here would want to download 8 or 10 key games (all of ours, some of our opponents previous games, other upsets), so for the same price you can just get the whole tournament.

3/15/2006 10:29:08 AM

no news release on apple.com but the first full length movie is out on iTunes, albiet a disney channel movie "High School Musical" for $9.99.

the content is probably not interesting to too many on here but certainly is a sign of where apple is headed, and they're making progress, its on iTunes prior to the DVD release

3/15/2006 5:03:39 PM