Isaiah's Tech

The next-gen iPhone that Apple will be releasing may have video capabilities. This is definitely-needed - so is a better camera - and could be featured in one of Apple's future iPhone's. "Video recording support has stood as one of the most glaring omissions from the iPhone since its inception two years ago, but the understanding is that Apple wants to get the feature 'right.'" Personally, I'd have to agree, even though it should've already been "right" with the release of the iPhone 3G. The evidence of these claims is that the MobileMe panel for uploading images had a "conspicuously titled [heading called] 'Publish Video.'" This claim is probably true since companies are fairly decent at making mistakes like these. It's good to see that Apple is blooming as a company, but it is kind of annoying in a different kind of way, especially here in Canada. Keep in mind that this picture is one of the many iPhone 4G concept pictures out there and not the next video capable iPhone.

[Apple Insider, Manilaseo Gadgets]

After my 37 hours of blog disappearance, I am back. Again, I'm going to talk about iTunes' attempts at selling their HD movies for $20 a piece. My last post talked about the availability of HD movies on iTunes right now and today I'm going to tell you about - what could be - bad news. If you spent $20 on your HD movie off of Apple's iTunes (either yesterday or today) then you better have an "HDCP-compliant [High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection] external display" because you need it in order to play your movie in HD. Luckily, iLounge will allow you to play the HD movie on your monitor if you don't have the specified display, but it will only let you play the movie in crappy SD (Standard Definition), which makes buying the HD movie clearly a waste of money. Apple of course stands apart from the crowd by introducing this HDCP crap because if the monitors supported HDMI it would be better, since HDMI "supports HDCP natively." That is, Apple tries to sell your their products by basically screwing you over. Good luck.

[Gizmodo]