October 30, 2005

Front Row

Front Row is really, really good.

Thanks to Marcus I got it running on my machine today. It's a little slow in places: it struggles to play full-screen H.264, it's sluggish to scroll through a full list of iTunes artists. The video quality of podcasts when you see them full-screen on a laptop is rough (probably ok on a TV though). And it doesn't work with the DVD player. But it does go whoosh! and zoom! and click! and ding! so I'm happy.

Now I'm just trying to work out how to afford a quad G5 server farm and terabyte array, so I can encode my DVD collection.

I really hope Apple make it generally available soon.

Posted by savs at October 30, 2005 11:55 PM