News for Tuesday, 21 March 2006

Without a big surprise, and confirming what we have already published about this project the DADVSI bill has been voted, and will now go the high chamber in May.
some articles in this law, have such broad claims and impacts that the French Internet market face might be dramatically changed. Congratulation to our lawmakers for having successfully displeased all actors of this important subject, from artists to consumers.
Forbes has published an analysis only related to the "interpolarity article" that will force online music providers to make their DRM compatibles. As we were already mentioning it, Forbes expect that if such law is applied in France, Apple might simply decide to close the French iTMS. It will of course not only impact Apple iTMS, but also other players. iTMS is not the first French online music providers, Virgin music is still leading the race in France (DRM-enable WMA music format). In addition, Apple France is probably tired of negotiating with our government regarding taxes applied on devices and storage media (CD, DVD, HD- and Flash memory-based Music players) that have originally delayed iPods success.

Elgato has released couple of days ago a new version of one of its flagships: EyeTV version 2.1. This version brings native support for Intel processor Core Duo.
As reported by Giuseppe, it seems to be fast:

I have installed EyeTV 2.1 on my new Mac Mini Core Duo. I could not compare with the previous version, but it seems to be fast.
The version 2.1 seems to bring new features, such as HD support for Core Duo.

Couple of weeks ago we have published a test of Test EyeTV 2.0
Update to EyeTV 2.1:
http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=support_updates_eyetv2

The European Refurb Stores are proposing many products.
One can find iPod, but also PMG5 current and previous revision models with up to 30% discount.
This morning it was possible to buy a PMG5 Quad 2.7GHz for 2379 €TTC!!
So the shortest way to European RefurbStore:
- UK Refurb Store
- German Refurb Store
- French Refurb Store

Thanks to Charles-Antoine for reporting this news published on Jaron Brass.
One can see how the Miramar High School has organized the setting up of 3000 iBooks in 3 days before distributing them to students.


Even the biggest Apple's fan would reconsider their passion if they had to carry out this task, a real big challenge.

Thanks to Thibaud for his report and photo.

Hereafter are some photos taken at the MIPS show(multimedia image photo show) taking place last week-end in Paris.
Apple's hardware was highly represented at the show, as I was expecting it, I could also see 2 MBPro, one of them being plugged to a Apple Cinema Display 30"

If the last Mac models were strongly advertised, a good old G4 was still used but hidden behind the desk :)