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Originally Posted by Rand
The first day after Apple TV began shipping a bunch of sharp-as-a-tack
coder types hacked Apple's new set top box to shreds:
Non-Apple TV owners can enjoy the out of box experience by viewing the
opening video which one crafty person ripped from the hard drive and
posted in all of it's 720p glory. You can also download the Quartz
Composer Screen Saver and the Now Playing Screen. And if you're truly
hard-core you can download the entire Apple TV OS, and (conceivably)
install it on another Mac.
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1080p, or 720p doesn't necessarily mean that the video will be amazing 'HD quality'. The bitrate is a very important element to the 'perceived' quality. The apple store movies are 720p, but the bitrate (I think it's ~3-5 Mbps) is 'near DVD quality'. I would guess that the end quality is going to look lackluster on an HDtv. To put this into prespective, a DVD has a max bitrate of ~9Mbps. An HD DVD has a max bitrate of 26Mbps and blu-ray has a max of 52Mbps. It would be nice to buy a DVD version of a particular movie, the apple store version, the Blu-ray, or HD-DVD version. Then compare the picture quality.
Here is a
nice article if you're interested.
The appletv looks like a cool idea, but why plug it into an HDtv?
And that 40G drive. I don't get that either, but maybe I am missing something.