Quoted! (sort of)…

• Posted: January 30, 2008
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• Author: Christina
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• Filed under: writing
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• Tags: ipod, mac, my stuff on the web, quoted, TUAW, wired, writing

Forgive me for being self-indulgent, it's not every day I see my name and something I wrote quoted in something owned by Conde Nast...

For­give me for being self-indulgent, it’s not every day I see my name and some­thing I wrote quoted in some­thing owned by Condé Nast. Espe­cially some­thing like Wired News. Please keep in mind, my “pro­fes­sional” writ­ing career is only a year old, and before late Octo­ber, was lim­ited to Amer­i­can Idol analy­sis, which by the very nature of what it was and who it was for was not going to be quoted by another pub­li­ca­tion. Blog­ging for TUAW and Down­load Squad has truly been a dream come true — hon­estly, all my pro­fes­sional endeav­ors in 2007 still don’t feel real — that I’m still pinch­ing myself that words that I write can have any reach.

So right after the Mac­world keynote, I posted an entry on TUAW about how the 5G iPod’s are incom­pat­i­ble with the new iTunes rentals. To be hon­est, it was kind of a shock that it got as much trac­tion (mean­ing traf­fic, com­ments, etc.) as it did, because I really wasn’t expect­ing it to go any­where. But I learned early on that it is impos­si­ble to pre­dict what kind of post will take off and for what­ever rea­son, that one ended up being pretty big.

Cut to last night (well, ear­lier this morn­ing), I get a link to an entry on Boing Boing about the whole 5G iPod thing and that was a link to a story on Wired about the lack on 5G rental sup­port. Well, I clicked on the link, hon­estly not expect­ing to see any ref­er­ence to TUAW or what I wrote. So imag­ine my shock, when towards the end of the arti­cle, I find this:

In the most recent iPod clas­sic and iPods nano mod­els, the TV-out port no longer works with older, third-party video cables and docks — most likely in order to close the ana­log hole, accord­ing to The Unof­fi­cial Apple Weblog’s Christina War­ren. “I guess it would just be too much of a risk for Apple (and the movie stu­dios) to allow 5-G cus­tomers (to) con­nect their iPods to a TV via an open TV-out cable so that the (standard-definition) con­tent could then be cap­tured using the ana­log hole,” War­ren con­cludes in a recent post.

Holy crap! Now, I got some shit in the com­ments for the so-called ana­log hole state­ment — which was actu­ally part of a larger sar­cas­tic com­ment about the stu­pid­ity of Apple lock­ing out 5G sup­port, but I stand by my feel­ing that the lack of com­pat­i­bil­ity has SOMETHING to do with the change in video-out cable com­pat­i­bil­ity. I also think that movie stu­dios would be naive enough to worry about a poten­tial ana­log hole method to cir­cum­vent copy-protection. That or it’s some sort of HDCP thing (which I feel cer­tain is what the new cables offer that the old ones didn’t — the pur­chased con­tent might not be HDCP flagged right now, but some­thing tells me the rental con­tent is), which amounts to the same basic the­ory — ana­log hole aside.

Really though, I was kind of floored to myself quoted in Wired — a site/magazine I have read reli­giously for years and years. So again, excuse the self-indulgence, but w00t!

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