More on the Mac as a DVR. I think Cringely nails it.

The idea is pretty simple.

Jobs at MWSF Keynote: 2005 is the year of HD.

Both competing HD DVD formats (Blu Ray & HD-DVD) allow the use H.264 encoding.

Jobs at MWSF Keynote: Quicktime 7 has H.264 support (which comes out with OS X 10.4)

Apple testing playing of movie trailers in iTunes through itunes music store, which tests the basic functionality of playing movies through the same.

Several online movie distribution companies have suddenly "disappeared" themselves.

The Mac Mini looks suspiciously like something that would sit in your entertainment center. (Note that it has the same shiny aluminum as Sony HDTVs.)

Oh, and the Sony CEO was at the Apple keynote you say?

It all seems to make sense...

I am going to wait on getting a mac mini until after Tiger comes out.

Now about the audio on my powerbook finally dying... What's that? New Powerbooks possibly next month?

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