F!ack that apple universe and other non prorpiratary standards

I've always considered data just that data when it comes to information and that includes media.

The latest toys in a big way force you to choose. the Apple universe only supports so much and they are very rigid about it. I guess it's for the user experience but it's a painful leap when common standards aren't supported and of course interopability with other system is the last thing on there mind. Only the open source people will rejoice but they don't work on platforms such as Ipad or the lastest android idea.

The basic idea that a lot of people will need to have duplicate libraries or redo them to insure that both standars can read them. http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=92346 for reference.

mac PC universe

Macs are the propritary ones aside from the windows users who unknowingly used  wma that would be your fault.

To sync to the Touch, iTunes needs to see the files. The touch supports the following audio formats:

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AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

and the following video formats:

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H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

furthing that, if yo uget into the ipad world the video seems (again another issue)

AirPlay Mirroring to Apple TV (2nd and 3rd generation) at 720p

AirPlay video streaming to Apple TV (3rd generation) at up to 1080p and Apple TV (2nd generation) at up to 720p

Video mirroring and video out support: Up to 1080p with Apple Digital AV Adapter or Apple VGA Adapter (adapters sold separately)

Video out support at 576i and 480i with Apple Composite AV Cable (cable sold separately)

Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 1080p, 30 frames per second, High Profile level 4.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

Retina display, it's just 4x the resolution of the older ipads ( 2048 x 1536 ) your videos at 1:1 are now smaller, sure scale up but it will just use 4 pixels to represent 1. bfd.

Ebooks? I guess that's worth another post.