Tag Archives: 1080p

Video of the Apple Special Event, Sep 2012

Apple pos­ted the stream­ing video of today’s Special Event where it announced the iPhone 5 and new iPod mod­els. You can watch it here. — I’ll update this post when Apple releases a video pod­cast ver­sion of the event. Update:  The video is now avail­able as a Podcast on the iTunes Store. You can get it here in different […]

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Efficient compression in iTunes 1080p video

The new 1080p iTunes video files show bet­ter qual­ity over­all than 720p ones and not that much increase in file size, des­pite increased com­pres­sion. This is due to improved decod­ing in Apple’s latest chips. From the Ars Technica art­icle: This means that the increased 1080p res­ol­u­tion breaks com­pat­ib­il­ity with everything older than the iPhone 4S anyway, […]

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Apple Media Event, March 2012

New iPad with ret­ina dis­play (2048 by 1536 pixels) with bet­ter col­ors, A5X (dual-core) pro­cessor with quad-core graph­ics, 5 mega­pixels iSight cam­era, 1080p record­ing, voice dic­ta­tion (just a taste, not the full Siri exper­i­ence), 10-hour bat­tery life (same as the iPad 2) and… 4G LTE mod­els (at the same price of pre­vi­ous mod­els) → iPad 2 still on […]

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