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Funny! .< 2:28:41 PM  >More on High-Def DVD Boycott Was reading some of the comments on the HD Boycott post by Mike Evangelist when I noticed Philip Hodgetts also weighing in the discussion. BTW for you newbies, Phil Hodgetts is one of the original and greatest Digital Video gurus, unlike say me. Here is what he had to say about the next generation High-Def DVD's: "All Blu-ray and HD DVD players will require an Internet connection to play connected content - every time you play. Further should someone - say a friend of your teenage child - ever put an unauthorized disc in your player/drive it will be deactivated remotely and require a trip to a repair shop to be 'reauthorized'. Seriously, I am not making this up." [Via DV Guru] .< 2:28:32 PM >Call for HD Boycott Found this somewhat shocking story at MacNN: "Apple's former director of video product marketing Mike Evangelist is calling for a boycott of next-generation HD video products--including HD-DVD and Blu-ray--claiming that the industry is trying to take away 'fair use' from customers." Reading the actual blog post, my blood started to boil, "This is important. I really want you to understand what’s going on with the video industry’s push towards HD. They are engineering a complete removal of the concept of fair use. They are setting up systems that will completely control how, when and where you can use content that you buy. Even worse, they can retroactively change the rules!" [Via DV Guru] .< 2:28:11 PM >News: PMA: JustShowMeHowTo offers on-demand photo tips JustShowMeHowTo.com is a new instructional video site that teaches about photography. [Via MacCentral] Clever .< 2:27:22 PM >Apple's Home Media Centre Concept Evolves Apple today introduced a new Mac mini and an updated version of of Front Row. A 6-button remote control let's you access audio, photos and video on all computers on your local network (iTunes only on Windows machines). The Mac mini includes one audio output connector which can be used as a stereo analogue output or an S/PDIF output. While early coverage of the presentation sometimes referred to this as a Dolby Digital output one assumes it could also output a DTS stream. On the video side of things the Mac mini has a DVI/VGA output. Canadian prices for the two configurations are $699 and $949. Specifications.
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