QuickTime 7 HD Gallery

[gekko]

Well for those of you who don't love Apple and follow their every move...

QuickTime 7 supports the H.264 codec, which is the same codec that they've decided on for HD formats like Blu-Ray. In other words, it's the same damn video codec that will be used with HD-DVD.

Well Apple just released 720p and 1080p (!) trailers for a few movies.

Of course this is only for Mac users right now, but QT7 will be on Windows soon.

Too bad I don't think anyone here has a computer that can handle 1080p. Look at their system recommendations:

For 1280x720 (720p) video at 24-30 frames per second:
1.8 GHz PowerMac G5 or faster Macintosh computer
At least 256 MB of RAM
64 MB or greater video card

For 1920x1080 (1080p) video at 24-30 frames per second:
Dual 2.0 GHz PowerMac G5 or faster Macintosh computer
At least 512 MB of RAM
128 MB or greater video card

I tried running it on both my Macs (1.5ghz G4 PowerBook, 733mhz G4 tower [better video card]). On the 733, I got one picture every 5 seconds or so. On the PowerBook, it ran well, only a few skipped frames here and there.

But then again, keep in mind, on my 15" widescreen I have on my laptop, I was running it just a little over half size to get it to fit (in full screen). On my 733, my monitor is running at 1600x1200 and it still didn't fit on the screen. At full size, it's too big vertically for me to reach the controls, and it's barely over half viewable horizontally. 1080p is HUGE! 1080p, by my estimates, would completely fill up the screen on Apple's 23" monitor, and would require the 30" to view it in a window. It's unreal.

But you know what else is unreal? The picture quality! My god! I paused it, and could see the fibers sticking off someone's suit.

Put it this way, I watched one thing in 1080p, and there's no way I'm buying another HDTV, if it doesn't support 1080p. It is unreal.