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Former “Mac Genius” Tony Edwards has taken the sometimes fanatical love of the Apple Inc. to it’s logical conclusion by creating “The Church of Mac”. Edwards portrays the fictional character, “The Reverend Doctor Bobby Newton”, whom he describes as “a mash-up of Stephen Colbert, Dr. Michael Beckwith (of Oprah fame) and The Onion.”

Edwards’ website, features a series of video iPodcasts, in which “Dr. Bobby” gives computer advice to “brothers and sisters in Apple”, leads them in the recitation of “Steve’s Prayer” and invites Mac users worldwide to sing Apple hymns with “The Church of Mac Gospel Karaoke”. Although Edwards is no longer associated with Apple, the podcasts have been approved by the company and are freely available at the iTunes Store. (more…)

HungryFlix, the Internet’s first distributor of premium, independent video content specifically formatted for portable devices, is continuing to drive innovation in the movie download space by announcing that content providers can now upload movies of up to 1GB in size. This increased storage capacity will allow for high quality movies to be delivered to Macs, PCs and especially, Apple TV.

HungryFlix was the pioneer in providing indie films for portable media players such as the Apple iPod, iPhone and Sony PSP. The web startup is also offering support for the new class of home media servers such as Apple TV and slingmedia’s slingbox. In order to support growing demands for high definition video, HungryFlix has deployed Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), a component of Amazon Web Services. (more…)

Why Internet TV will win

Most people don’t know it yet, but there’s a war going on. It’s a silent war, but the battles are raging. On the morning of Feb. 18, 2009, cable households that haven’t switched to digital cable might—just might—find that their local stations have vanished.

The issue, which has attracted surprisingly little attention, is this: Under the 2005 digital TV transition law, cable companies will not be authorized to down convert local channels before sending the signal to the customer’s home.

The FCC, through a series of policy decisions, is encouraging cable companies to also make the move to an all-digital future. That’s one solution: Get rid of analog cable, and you get rid of any problem facing analog cable subscribers in 2009. (more…)