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Again, not sure what is happening in cases like the one you describe but I have zero problems with it. I would look into your wireless speed to the iOS device.

I just checked out the new version, running via Airplay Mirroring to my 60’ LG and I can definitely say that while it’s not FULL Screen (seriously Hulu this is the best you could do?) it is also not a dithery, pixelated mess.

The Video quality is definitely bearable, and if I didn’t already have multiples of other devices that could play Hulu to my TV I could definitely see using this.

There is definitely something that LD is not telling us or that he or she is missing. Are you using an original iPad as opposed to a newer model?

Is your Apple TV hacked in any way?

If none of those fit the bill I would check the speed you are getting from your wireless on the iPad. It’s networking is the one that counts when sending the video stream via Air Play.

I can see why Apple thinks this is a doable situation (For Apple media it works pretty good and some third party apps are great) but what would be best would be an APP Store for Apple TV and having a Native HULU App would be the best.

So it’s been like 10 years since they upgraded their UI and THIS is what they have to show for all that work? Granted it’s a helluva improvement over what we currently have, but to be honest with you, wiping human feces would have been an improvement as well.

Also I would say they are pretty much already too late. I only have a cable subscription for one reason now, HBO, and I use the HBO GO app to access that material. I don’t pay for an HD Box yet I can watch any HBO shows or movies in HD via my Xbox 360 or my HTPC.

I’ll never buy a box, and the most I will do is possibly get a CableCard Based tuner for my Windows Media Center.

“have SHOWN that the MPAA…”

Seriously, The ICE website shutdowns of the past few years have down that the MPAA and RIAA have the government stored quite neatly in their pockets.

So agency while technically inaccurate, is not far from the actual truth and reality of the matter.

Hmm, actually there are already a couple of 64GB Micro SD Cards on the market, both by Sandisk.

Yes great job, now the document is completely useless. Really thought that the people who contributed to these forums were better than those from Engadget. But I sadly see I was mistaken.

Damned 14 year olds.

Sony cooperate with Microsoft AND Apple, never gonna happen. I’d say MS and Apple would cooperate way before Sony would ever do something like that.

Don’t waste your breath, some people will just bash whatever apple product you find most useful because most of the time they secretly want it, but can’t afford it.

Although the AppleTV is only $99, so not sure what they would be complaining about. Oh that’s right most people who complain about iTunes and AppleTV don’t want to pay for ANY content so anything that can’t play MKV files or whatever else they have “downloaded” they hate.

I’ve come to realize as I have gotten older that Apple has the best mixture of ease of use, and content. With all the other Apple gear I now own (thanks to my first iPod in 20o3) I can pretty much watch what I want, when I want, Wherever I want. I’ts pretty nice to start watching something in one room and finish it on my iPad, iPhone, or my bedroom AppleTV. If they can get a deal with HULU, and some others it’s gonna be a slaughter.

Not sure but I’m fairly sure (from his gif below) that he’s being sarcastic, likely because he’ll insist that DLNA works better than Airplay and he’s an Apple hater.

Whatever.

A large portion of this article was dedicated to not only what options are there but what would work for your family or baby sitter. If you think 8 remote controls and DLNA hiccups are something your family will put up with. So be it.

compelling? I see more and more people with iPhones and I have YET to see a single person using a Lumia other than tech journalists who get them for free.

I seriously doubt that any of the Zune hardware came near 10% marketshare. Pretty sure that would mean that The Zune had pretty much all of the marketshare that wasn’t already attributed to the iPods and I know that is just not true.

I’ll look it up later, but I’m fairly certain you are way off on your numbers.

Maybe if the touchpad on the Mac’s end up working as well as they do in OSX then the metro interface might be more usable, but I’m old school I find nothing wrong with the Desktop on a “gasp” Desktop.

Touch is useful on some form factors, until someone comes out with a better way to interact with a desktop computer, a mouse and keyboard are generally needed.

Touch on an iPad is one thing, using a mouse to manipulate a touch environment is pretty stupid.

Yeah well the problem is that Windows is going to shove it down EVERYONES throat, while Apple put it in the background or if you have the touchpad or a mouse that supports it.

They didn’t take your desktop and hide it behind metro and pretty much require you to either touch it, or like I do “hate it”. It’s the dumbest decision MS has made since Windows ME.

If they try and make that the default, a lot of people are going to HATE windows 8. Hey that rhymed!!

They aren’t renting the GAME, they are apparently only renting half a game. They should make sure it’s marked properly in the box and then it won’t be that big of a deal.

Yes your reading too much into his shirt. Especially since it had only 3 words on it.

Amen brother.

Should read “Put it on the MAP by collaborating”

EDIT FEATURE PUHLEEZE!!!!

Awww, Woe is us, we didn’t think about the future, and neither did nielsen. Web Viewing has been around for quite a while now. WTF is Nielsen waiting for, complete obsolescence?

I’m sick of hearing, “SAD CHANNEL IS SAD” remarks from these dumbass megacorporations, most of them still don’t have anything that can compete with HULU or NETFLIX for quality or ease of use. ALL OF THEM with very few exceptions limit the amount of shows they put online because they think it’s detracting from DVD sales, yeah right I said DVD because that’s how clueless these bastards are. IF they are worried about DVD sales they really should look into the fact that “WE AINT USING DVD’S ANY MORE IDIOTS!!!!”.

How do the CTIO’s of these companies keep their jobs? And why the hell did they start HULU in the first place (or at least put it on the may by collaborating/colluding? with it) if they were than going to just sit around for 4 years doing absolutely nothing additional to improve their online viewership.

Idiots all around.

OH, and they are about 1 commercial away from HULU being useless as an online viewing source. I have seen sporadic 4 commercial breaks, but the minute it hits four in a row on average I’m going to stop paying for it, and just start buying them on iTunes or obtaining lesser shows I wouldn’t pay for from less reputable sources.

Not so true, how many new phones come without internet access. So Paul just pretty much is not able to review Cell Phones at all. Laptops and computers, same thing, they are designed to access the internet. Yes they do much more but so much of today’s tech is designed with the internet in mind that you can’t do a proper review or article about them without having used the internet on it. So Paul can’t do that either.

I respect what he’s trying to do and it may make for some interesting reading. But let’s be honest here, he really can’t do anything at his job now except write articles that have nothing to do with the internet, on a WEBSITE that is dedicated to internet technology and popular culture.

I wish him luck but I can’t see this going more than 3 months tops before the rest of the Verge team realize it and pull the plug, heyooooo.

Wow, if you mean by exciting, more boring and take longer, then yeah we had excitement in spades. As an IT engineer, working on computers has been vastly improved (and some could say become worse) by the internet. But I would say the improvements far outweigh the cons. In the 80’s and 90’s you had to actually read magazines to find that tidbit of information you needed to solve a problem. If you had a real problem you would have to wait for hours on the phone and HOPE AND PRAY you got someone who was actually smarter than yourself or knew about the issue you were having,

Google has made both of those issues much less of a problem. I can now search google and usually within minutes find a forum where either people have had the same exact problem or similar enough problem that I can usually fix most issues within an hour or two rather than sit on the phone.

Don’t mistake your nostalgia for an era to mean that era was better. Trust me it wasn’t, go watch “Life on Mars”, preferably the BBC version if you want to see a true representation of what it would be like to be stuck back in the era before computers became popular, interconnecting computers is one of main reason they have become so ubiquitous.

The OP? You mean the author of the article on this website? Dude you got some huge cajones thinking your comments should be integrated into the original Article. If it was correction information I can see them updating the article to reflect it.

Just thought it was a little funny that you consider the authors, the OP’s.

Yeah but here is the difference, Apple get’s that buy building the hardware only. They don’t make the rules like the one this article is talking about. When they sacrifice your ability to do something on your phone I can very much see it’s at the altar of usability and stability. The battery life and the fact the iOS is rock solid and not getting hit with virus’s twice a year, pretty much should prove that to a blind person.

You can argue that Apple is getting a lot of profits but that’s because they can make their devices faster, and less expensively then anyone else and still make something people feel good about paying for.

It’s worse than that “Jim”, the article is about not screwing over your customers. When in fact not only are they screwing over their customers but they then blatantly cry about it afterwards and complain, “I feel bad I wasn’t screwing you longer,”. This is basically what the AT&T CEO has said ON THE RECORD!!! These guys obviously don’t give a damn about their customers. They only care about profit.

Does anybody know if it allows playback of apple’s icloud based music from iTunes match like the built in player?

I trust in Peter Jackson. Before the Lord of the Rings trilogy pretty much anybody said it could not be done. Now not only did he make it outshine things like Star Wars (especially the currently available crap SE on Blu-Ray) but he’s going to complete it with the icing on the cake. SMAUG in 3D and at 48 FPS.

The only shame is that you can’t go back and get 48FPS from movies that aren’t filmed at that rate. At least I hope people don’t try. You can’t create information where there isn’t any. But I look forward to seeing this in December at a theater that projects at 48FPS and 3D.

Showscan was a company that the person this article was about, created. He was WAY ahead of his time, but he was always on the right track, he was just ahead of the curve and the tech hadn’t matured just yet.

What your talking about is CONSUMER grade resolution. Your incorrect in your assumption that 1920×1080 is a high resolution. It’s actually quite small when dealing with better equipment.

But you really need to understand the fact that when you increase resolution, the PIXEL count increases dramatically each time.

640×480, the grandaddy of computer resolutions is a 4X3 aspect with 307,200 pixels.
By comparison HDTV is 16X9 aspect and has 2,073,600 as in two million and seventy three thousand pixels as opposed to the original 300 thousand pixels give or take in the 640 by 480 VGA we all used as kids (at least those of us old enough to).

UHDTV is being developed now in Japan (of course) and is what is believed will be the 8K standard for film and television eventually. It will have a pixel count of 33,177,600 or 34 Million pixels.

The other thing you didn’t take into account is all of the technology required to make digital imagery a reality. Moving from one resolution to another usually requires a geometric amount of processing and storage increases. Processors need to improve to be able to manipulate and present the huge amount of pixels required for the next evolutionary leap, storage needs to improve so that you can store all of that digital information to be transferred and projected.

Case in point, the work in the past few years on 8K resolution for TV and FILM, here is an excerpt about filming and transmitting the 33 Million Pixel 8K imagery they were working on.

Film has much more resolution potential than digital projection technology currently provides. But because the printing techniques of creating and processing film haven’t really progressed in 30 years it’s difficult to say what we could have achieved if people had been focusing on improving the film processing tech.

Digital imagery and digital film projection have been far more improved in the past 30 years than other technology. Even IMAX which has been much improved is still just an offshoot of things like 70MM film tech.

It’s currently believed that after FILM is processed 35MM has about the resolution of a 2K digitally shot sequence, and 70MM has about the resolution of a 4K digitally shot sequence.

The reason that Digital usually looks so much better is because there is so little degradation between shooting the film and presenting it to the public.

Then take into account that when you first watch a physical FILMED picture it immediately start’s degrading the image as soon as the FILM is processed, add to that projectionist mistakes, and the wear and tear of running a film through a projector and you begin to see why Digital is superior. Anybody old enough knows that films used to look like crap after a few months so movies like Star Wars used to look old by the time they were done with their theatrical run (unless the movie house got another set of reels, which was uncommon.)

But in the end it’s considered that FILM has a huge amount of information that can be contained and captured. But as we progress digital technology such as the RED cameras that Peter Jackson is filming the Hobbit with, the gap between physical film and digital capture will close and then be eclipsed by the digital cameras of the future.

That’s gonna be a while since as far as I know there isn’t any equipment that can shoot or display an 8K image.