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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