Downloading QuickTime for my ipad

The Osbourne Effect is a term referring to the unintended consequence of the announcement of a future product. They don't announce it unintentionally but long before they make the announcement they don't inform you at all that the current models on offer will soon be obsolute!

Not unlike the anti virus software you "buy" for the internet. Only to find 12 months on they want paying again as part of their licence. "Buy" software? NO! You RENT it!

The biggest complaint I hear about Apple is what a pain it is trying to read video. I can plug in and watch it on TV, I can watch it on Windows regardless of codec, but Apple! Oh no sorry, those codecs we don't bother with, despite half the world might be using them!

Now far be it from me to be cynical but...... do you suppose they may want the world on H.264 in order to prove the rumour, that when everything has this codec installed, they too will "licence" it by way of charging royalties to everyone for "using their codec to watch your video"?

If I buy a laptop now with Lion and also use my imac with Leopard, do you think they'll talk to each other? I doubt it!

they don't inform you at all that the current models on offer will soon be obsolute!

Just because its not the very latest model, doesn't mean it's obsolete. Anyone with half a brain knows that electronic products of all types (not just PCs) are replaced with newer models with better features within weeks or months of buying them. Doesn't matter if you're buying a TV, a mobile phone, a printer or whatever. There is always something better coming imminently.

Most of Apple's products are refreshed annually, so in most cases it is easy to tell how close to a new models release you are. And various websites provide this info too, if you don't keep up-to-date yourself.

The biggest complaint I hear about Apple is what a pain it is trying to read video.

Absolute rubbish! You can get virtually all the same codecs for Macs as you can for Windows PCs. Just because they're not provided by Apple, doesn't mean they're not available. Which is exactly the same as on a PC. In Windows you need to download seperate codecs or VLC to playback video not supported by Windows Media Player as standard. Just look at the top 20 most popular downloads for Windows at download.com. After all the anti-virus apps, positions 15, 17, 18 & 19 are all third-party apps to allow playback of video in various codecs.

I've yet to come across a video format I can't play on my Mac.

And on iOS devices there are also third-party apps for playing back all of the most common video codecs including avi, divx, mkv etc. which aren't included natively by Apple.

do you suppose they may want the world on H.264 in order to prove the rumour, that when everything has this codec installed, they too will "licence" it

Apple don't own H.264 so they couldn't require a license to use it. Apple are a licensor, just like Microsoft, HP, Sony, Samsung, LG, JVC, Toshiba, Sharp, etc. etc.

There is a very good technical reason for why Apple and most other companies favour H.264 on mobile devices. Hardware H.264 decoding chips are readily available, low-cost, and most importantly, low powered, meaning you get many more hours of viewing when playing back H.264 video on a mobile device compared with software based codecs such as DivX, WebM etc.

If I buy a laptop now with Lion and also use my imac with Leopard, do you think they'll talk to each other? I doubt it!

More rubbish. I use Mac's with Mountain Lion, Lion, Snow Leopard, Leopard and Tiger on them on a weekly basis. They all talk to each other with no problems at all.

You'd better get your butt round here and get mine working then! I seem to have a different Mac to you!

Or maybe it's not just me!

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And clearly you're happy with the pixelated YouTube quality of your video!

So, those links are "proof" that Apple computers and devices can't read video? It couldn't possibly be people who don't know what they're doing, haven't installed the correct codec or app, or are having a (temporary) software issue?

If you had actually read any of those posts you found, you would've seen the solution is found very quickly in the vast majority of cases, and is usually due to the user not having done something, or not having installed something they need.

And, of course, you never get people using Windows who can't view a video file for similar reasons do you?

But anyway, a google search will almost always return a result, no matter what you search for. 😉

Huh? I quite happily play superb quality HD videos on my Apple kit, from YouTube, Vimeo, iTunes, etc. in H.264, avi, divx, mkv. None of it is pixelated.

Sounds like you need to actually learn how to use the equipment you have.

Obviously you're an Apple geek who is more than happy to throw his bucks at something that isn't as good as it's claimed but wont accept the fact.

But here's one way to watch video as recommended by an Apple user:

In short - "you have to **** about like this mate to get it to work"!

When I buy something claimed to be the best for thousands I expect it to work! If it works why is everyone requesting help and finding a way "around the problem"? Or do we all need to book on a course to be as geeky as you? Or do you need to be an PC expert to get it to work?

Bye

You're HAPPY with You Tube quality video!!!!!!!!!! Saddo!

Yes, YouTube 1080p HD video quality is excellent. What are you watching?

What ARE you talking about? Do you actually READ and COMPREHEND anything before you post it on the internet?

That MacWorld Hint is someone trying to use a product for something its not even intended to do. It's not even necessary to do what he is suggesting to watch video.

Every product I have purchased (Apple or otherwise) has functioned exactly as described and has done everything I have expected it to. But then again, I research all products I buy before parting with my money. If a product doesn't do what I want it to do, I don't buy it, and I continue looking for another product that does meet my needs.

When I buy something claimed to be the best for thousands

You paid "thousands" for an iPad? Crikey, they must've seen you coming! The most expensive 64GB iPad with 3G is not even a thousand dollars - let alone "thousands".

If it works why is everyone requesting help and finding a way "around the problem"?

Everyone? Hardly. Apple have sold over 67 million iPads. A very very small minority of users come here looking for help. And most of the time, that's because they haven't bothered reading anything, or even done a simple search for an app that allows them to do what they want.

For instance, you haven't even bothered to mention what video format your "trail camera" records in. Apple very clearly shows on the iPad specs page what video formats it supports out-of-the-box. It's your responsibility to check compatibility. Nobody else knows what format this mystery "trail camera" you use records in.

Just because a desktop computer running a full desktop OS can do something, doesn't mean a mobile device running a mobile OS can do exactly the same. The iPad is NOT a Mac, and they DO NOT have the same features. An iPad IS NOT a replacement for a computer.

I'm watching the same on my 27" Imac super duper screen and it's not that good! But maybe that's me as well? Perhaps i have different eyes to every geek on Apple? Or perhaps YOU are confused thinking it's excellent just because it's 1080?

But if it's not 1080p/60 then it's not enhanced so maybe you don't actually know what you're watching?

But ofcourse I'd be wrong there wouldn't I? After all, you're thje only guy on the earth who doesn't have to do anything with any codec to watch it on his Mac when the rest of the world have to go round the world to see it!

I never said I paid thousands for my ipad ding head - I'm referring to the Imac!

Its obviously everyone else's fault! Sorry I insulted your god Julian

now as I said earlier - bye!

I'm watching the same on my 27" Imac super duper screen and it's not that good!

The quality of YouTube videos depends on the quality of the original and at what compression settings it was uploaded and what size you are playing it at. An iMac, a PC or whatever can't magically make a crappy video into something amazing. Videos uploaded at 1080p display at 1080p excellently from YouTube. Maybe you're trying to watch a crappy 320x240 video at 1920x1080?

you're thje only guy on the earth who doesn't have to do anything with any codec to watch it on his Mac

I never said that. You might try doing that "reading and comprehending" thing I mentioned. What I said is that a Mac can display pretty much any video format using VLC or an appropriate codec, (just like on a Windows PC). Not every video codec comes pre-installed on a Mac (just like on a Windows PC) but you can easily download and install them (just like on a Windows PC).

I never said I paid thousands for my ipad ding head - I'm referring to the Imac!

This is a post about the iPad, and you were originally whinging that you couldn't import video from your trial camera to the iPad via the iPad Camera Connection Kit from an SD card. Where does your iMac come into it? Regarding your iMac and your problem you actually said "I put the card in my imac, video read through either real player or quicktime, no problems.".

You do know the difference, right?

Julian

I surrender!

You are the Grand Master Jeddhi of Apple.

You know all what there is to know about video, codecs, Windows, Lion and anything else they've brought at.

I mean, who am I? Just a merely mortal who expected an Apple to do what the publicity claimed, without ttrawling the internet looking for this and that to make it work! Silly me!

I bow before you and your god!

Now take a pill and go lie down!

> Just a merely mortal who expected an Apple to do what the publicity claimed, without ttrawling the internet looking for this and that to make it work!

Show me where any Apple publicity claimed to support every single video codec out there without installing anything...

No computers or modern mobile devices come with absolutely everything that they can possibly do pre-installed.