Jeff Campbell
10-01-2010, 08:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.cultofmac.com/appletv-can-play-but-not-output-1080p-content/61411?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+cultofmac/bFow+(Cult+of+Mac)' target='_blank'>http://www.cultofmac.com/appletv-ca...w+(Cult+of+Mac)</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"One rather mystifying omission from the new AppleTV's feature set is the fact that it does not seemingly have the ability to play 1080p video. That's a crock: hardwarewise, the new AppleTV is more than capable of 1080p, because the iPhone 3GS was capable of it, and it didn't even have an A4 CPU to draw upon. The second-gen ATV should be more than up for the task if that lesser platform could manage it."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1285958533.usr105634.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>And it apparently can play 1080p, but it downsamples the movie so the output is 720p. Any thoughts as to why they would do this? </p>