I think you may need to look again. Being close to the media industry Apple chose AAC for the iTunes audio downloads and were instantly accused by self-proclaimed technology ‘experts’ of using a proprietary system. Luckily for us the ‘experts’ were wrong, Apple was right and the average consumer gets to use MPEG-4/AAC rather than some antiquated or proprietary audio format.
When AppleTV came out it was a child of H.264 but because TV & Film pilferers did so in the older MPEG-4/ASP (XviD et al) once again the walled garden accusations came out. Now films and TV shows are stolen in MPEG-4/AVC (H.264) many of the 720p downloads work directly & gorgeously. Even if they don’t a right-click in iTunes and a quick conversion remedies the situation easily.
Again Apple’s vision was way ahead of where the market stood and now the entire broadcast industry has voted for H.264 with its feet AppleTV is better than ever!
As a side note – never listen to ‘experts’ who’ve never actually developed anything successful.
McD
David Mackey
· 2 years ago
I wholeheartedly agree. Unless it moves outside of the iTunes ecosystem it cannot flourish. I'm not looking for the simplest device, I just want something that lets me pull up video then wirelessly stream it to my tv.
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When AppleTV came out it was a child of H.264 but because TV & Film pilferers did so in the older MPEG-4/ASP (XviD et al) once again the walled garden accusations came out. Now films and TV shows are stolen in MPEG-4/AVC (H.264) many of the 720p downloads work directly & gorgeously. Even if they don’t a right-click in iTunes and a quick conversion remedies the situation easily.
Again Apple’s vision was way ahead of where the market stood and now the entire broadcast industry has voted for H.264 with its feet AppleTV is better than ever!
As a side note – never listen to ‘experts’ who’ve never actually developed anything successful.
McD