If you have $2700 lying around, an hour or so to spare and a visceral need to do something, anything other than eat turkey and – gasp – talk to your family this weekend, you could pop to your local camera store and grab the hot new Canon 5D MkII.
The camera is now shipping, body only or in kit form (Amazon has it bundled with the EF 24-105mm ƒ4 L IS USM Lens for $4000), but we expect this first batch to sell out fast, given the anticipation we have seen for Canon’s first video-capable DSLR.
Photography Bay has a rundown of online dealers, but if you haven’t pre-ordered, you might try the brick and mortar stores instead. And if you think that your spousal unit might not be too happy, hey, it shoots home videos, right?
Me? Nope. First, here in Spain we don’t do Thanksgiving. Second, I’ll be taking my new Nikon D700 out for an extended run. But that video looks good…
Canon 5D Mark II - The Arrival [Photography Bay]
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After the fuss over the baked-in DRM of the new unibody MacBook, Apple has updated QuickTime to re-enable standard definition playback on many external monitors, including some of Apple’s own.
The new Mini DisplayPort connector on both the new MacBook and MacBook Pro supports HDCP, a "feature" which stops people playing tagged video content on non-compliant monitors or projectors. The heavy handed implementation meant that some people couldn’t watch certain (seemingly random) movies from the iTunes Store itself except on the notebook’s built in display.
An update to QuickTime (7.5.7) is now available to fix this. While HD content is often protected this way, standard-def usually isn’t, and that’s what the update corrects. You should be able to play any of your SD movies and TV shows on a regular VGA monitor and likely on DVI displays.
This is good news for teachers wanting to watch Hellboy 2 during the lunch break (advice: don’t bother — it’s terrible), but clearly shows that Apple has opened the "bag of hurt" that is movie copy protection. So, either get used to watching HD movies on a small screen, buy a brand new monitor or pay a visit to the Pirate Bay. Like most people, I expect you’ll be driven the the last option. The fix will show up in unibody Mac’s Software Update.
QuickTime 7.5.7 for DisplayPort Allows Standard Definition Playback [MacRumors]
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