touché.

i reckon i'll just stop reading them.

how many times can TUAW et al. keep writing this same article?

i think everybody gets it. apple isn't open with their process for approving/rejecting apps and that is frustrating to some app developers.

how unfortunate.

now can we move on?

wanky, wanky, wanky.

WOOT! is also where I got my Dyson. It's been going strong for 2 years and was less than $250 :) Respiffied is certainly the way to go with these babies

True true. It seems like Apple is pretty bottom-line savvy, so I'm sure they'll make phones for whomever it makes sense to do so.

But I suppose that's the whole point of providing a speculative post, so that commenters can provide speculative comments. And, obviously, it's working, so jokes on us, I guess.

I hate it when the forum posters know significantly more tech specs than the post author does.

I don't know shit about how phones work, but I feel significantly more comfortable with the explanations of the first few posters than I do with the vague predictions/reporting of the story.

Thanks knowledgeable posters!!!!!

@mark. So the truth comes out. You just don't know what you're talking about. Do you think the iPhone does something magical to the video file before it displays on the screen to make it smaller or something? Because it does not. The phone processes the video exactly the same as your computer would then scales it to match its native resolution.

Being able to decode and play the file smoothly on its screen = being able to stream that video out if the correct tools were unlocked by Apple. It's no more difficult to display externally than it is internally.

@Aaron. You are absolutely correct :) Though line from the article about Apple needing to unlock this capability obviously addresses this requirement. Again, though, the purpose of the article/video seems to just be proof of concept.

@ifalldownstairs. I'm confused by this. The article is obviously just showing something that is somewhat unknown to most iPhone users. Having a single 1080p video file play well, as the GIJoe clip does, is plenty enough proof to me that the iPhone is capable of playing it. I don't think the article was saying that we can all transfer our BluRay rips to the device and throw away our PS3s. Just that, even though the specs say it maxes out at VGA resolution, the guts of the phone are capable of much more. But you're probably correct. Nilay is obviously a zealot, secretly on the payroll of the boys in Cupertino. Tinfoil at and all.

@Mark. I don't think I'm the one missing the point. The point of the article isn't that the phone can display 1080 horizontal lines of resolution. The point of the article is that the processing power of the iPhone is enough to decode a video file encoded in 1080p within certain bit-rate constraints.

@Brian. What?!

I'm not sure why I feel compelled to comment whenever somebody on the internet is wrong, but I do.

All of you negative commenters are missing a few main points:

1- If nothing else, this shows that the iPhone is powerful enough to do something other than what the specs say it will. This is neat to some people, and worth a post alone.

2- Yes, the iPhone's screen is small. But it also has video out, doesn't it. So if it can play 1080p video, then (with more polishing) you could use it as a portable HD media player.

3- Some of you are confused about 1080p/720p and which is better. As the video CLEARLY POINTS OUT, bit rate is where the limitation is. The video post also clearly states that the 1080p G.I.Joe trailer is about 10Mb/s. What's more, is that it's the exact trailer from Apple. While this certainly won't look as good as a 35Mb/s BluRay disk, it it more than adequate for most considering the increased convenience of the ultra portable player.

So whahoo. I corrected somebody on the internet. Again. I'm lame.

it seems to me that the question would be, "why wait?"

if the discs are pressed, then waiting just because you said it would take longer than it did seems like a dumb idea to me.