 EverythingDigital Podcast 2006-6-22
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Welcome
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 Thursday, June 22, 2006
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*Play: Podcasting Sweep
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*Play: EverythingDigital Voiceover (ol_dave from RadioDaddy.com)
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*Play: EDP Intro Music
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Host: Alan Joyce
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On this Show
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*Play: On this Show Music
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Review of my new 17" MacBook Pro
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Rumors of lossless quality audio on the iTMS
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Reports of Apple's negotiations with movie studios
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News from the front lines of the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD format war
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The obscenely expensive DirecTV Titanium Package
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Five Five-Second Technology Headlines
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*Play: News Music
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IBM researchers have produced a microprocessor operating at 500GHz under -451ºF temperatures.
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Opera Software has released version 9.0 of its Opera web browser featuring support for widgets and BitTorrent downloads.
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Sony has released its first 7 high-definition Blu-ray Disc titles each priced at $24.99.
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Apple has updated its Shake video compositing application to a new Universal Binary and reduced its price from $2999 to $499
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A new device from the Georgia Institute of Technology can overwhelm movie pirates' digital cameras in theaters by projecting bright white light into their sensors
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Apple News
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MacBook Pro 17" Review
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Screen
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Speakers
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Whine
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Heat
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iSight
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Keyboard and Keyboard Backlight
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Speed
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Battery Life
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Boot Camp and Windows XP
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Rumors that Apple may be offering lossless music files on iTMS
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Apple iTunes Producer software updated to 1.4
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Used by record labels to post music to the store
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Includes ability to export to lossless format
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No Apple FairPlay DRM for lossless format currently
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Will Apple allow users to upgrade their previous purchases?
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Will there be a difference in price for lossless?
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Apple and the Movie Industry
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Apple in talks with studios to make movies available on iTunes within weeks
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Steve Jobs wants to price movies at $9.99 each
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Studios want different prices for different movies depending on popularity
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Studios becoming frustrated with Jobs
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Doubts as to the effectiveness of selling movies through iTunes
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Jobs is the majority shareholder in Disney and could likely convince them to sell movies through iTunes
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Other studios may follow if it is a success
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General News
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Toshiba has announced the first consumer HD DVD recorder
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Available on July 14 in Japan
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Will incorporate a 1 TB hard drive with HD DVD media
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Records up to 130 hours of HD video on hard drive
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Up to 230 minutes of HD video on each HD DVD disk
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Will be available for 398,000 yen or about $3,464 U.S.
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First Commercially-Available Blu-ray Disc Player Now In Stores
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Samsung BD-P1000 available in U.S. stores
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Follows Toshiba's HD DVD player already available
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BD-P1000 priced at $1000
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Backward compatible with older DVD and CD formats as well as a variety of flash-based memory cards
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Outputs to composite video, S-video, HDMI, and component video, as well as analog, coaxial digital, and optical digital audio
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New DirecTV Titanium Package
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$7,500 per year ($625 per month)
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Access to all DirecTV programming
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All HD programs
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All Pay-Per-Vew movies
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All sports events
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As many as 10 HD DVR boxes per residence
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24-hour concierge service
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DirecTV employees will come to customers' houses to provide technical support
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Will be available on approximately June 28th
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Wrap-Up
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*Play: EDP Outro Music
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