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"verified": false, "flickr": "", "twitter": "", "remote_domain_name": ""}}, "forum": {"use_media": true, "name": "Scobleizer", "streaming_realtime": true, "url": "scobleizer", "allow_anon_post": true, "reactions_enabled": true, "reply_position": 1, "show_avatar": true, "allow_anon_votes": false, "disqus_auth_disabled": false}, "realtime_enabled": true, "request": {"username": "", "is_global_moderator": false, "sharing": {}, "sort": 4, "forum": "scobleizer", "is_initial_load": true, "is_authenticated": false, "timestamp": "2009-12-17_07:59:38", "remote_domain": "", "page": 1, "is_moderator": false, "display_username": "", "points": null, "subscribe_on_post": 2, "moderator_can_edit": false, "is_remote": false, "is_verified": false, "missing_perm": "locked"}, "realtime_paused": false, "posts": {"9653376": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not to mention that Steve Jobs OWN PRESENTATION YESTERDAY is up in widescreen format! So, Apple certainly understands how to get widescreen out to you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_20:20:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653377": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Apple can get HD content online - you see the Quicktime movie trailers all over the place - but, for now, you'll never get the movie downloaded.<br><br>Set the model, work the licenses/rights, push the technology along.<br>Improvements will come.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_20:09:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "c2722dc7d0af3bf77654b5332ce0e119", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653378": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "PS - And oh, have a supply chain management logisitical nightmares unheard of in history, and have overheating problems galore, stick to the 3-5% line as if your life depended on it. If any problems or recalls, it's the chords fault, really, honest.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:20:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "cab1041ab2de14f71e070c15f8ae968e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653379": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Totoro: but how did Apple get to this position (you too John)? By always waiting for the market to show up before trying something? Really? Was the market really ready for a GUI computer in 1984? A Laser Printer in 1985? A Newton in 2004?<br><br>So, you're saying that it's a smart business move to wait until someone else does it first (Archos) and proves there's a market before acting?<br><br>Excellent! Now we can start the stories about \"Apple is the new Microsoft.\" And they won't be complimentary, let me tell you.<br><br>Steve Jobs didn't get to where he was by waiting for the market to be ready. He got to where he is by catering to edge cases like, yes, me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:18:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653380": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Now, Allard is trying to transfer some of the lessons learned creating Xbox to the music field.</i><br><br>The only real lesson: Spend Microsoft's money like a richie vapidly-vain drunk on a Platinum Card Strip Club tour...<br><br>Get a blank check from Microsoft. Insert billions, buy way into the hip club, woo and strong-arm content developers with pictures of Ben Franklin, jazz up a small army of blue-eyed 'Village of the Damned' Evangelists and MVPs, hold Mobius-like junkets all the live long day, suck-face with bloggers that will spill gallons of text for free product, make smack talk the order of the day, 'iPod as Pong', spin doctor and pitch yourself as David, when you are really just a brain-dead Goliath, with no success in the CE space, that doesn't deal in serious debt. Tout the Wifi and Collaborationish features...hand them out like candy to A-List celebrities...more junkets, parties, viral marketing spurts (with creepy cartoon figures), more parties, start and fund some existing Web site fan-bases, hand out MVPs to others, and yet more parties. Lather, rinse, repeat. Did I mention, party?<br><br>It's always the same prescription, no matter who the front-man is, Bozo the Clown could follow that recipe.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:09:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "cab1041ab2de14f71e070c15f8ae968e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653381": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "About Microsoft's Zune...<br><br>Apple needs only to add incremental improvements to iPod to continue to dominate the market for now.<br><br>Being five years late, Microsoft must disrupt the market to be successful.<br><br>Of all the attributes of Zune, the wireless song-sharing function is the only possible game-changer. If you watch what people do, they seem to like to share digital things: pictures, emails and songs.<br><br>How easily the Zune (and copyright restrictions) allow for sharing will determine whether it is a standout product or an iPod clone.<br><br>More:<br><a href=\"http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2006/09/microsofts_zune.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2006/09/m...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:22:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "24a00840e05f1423285ca507aa74761a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653382": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, what's the cheapest HDTV you can get?<br><br>something like $600/700 for a dirt cheap one. probably not highest resolution at that price.<br><br>So for a decent HDTV, it's a grand or more.<br><br>Yeah, HD is just going to FLOOD the non-geek homeland at that price point. Um..no, no it isn't.<br><br>But you just keep thinking that your geek bubble is indicative of most of the country.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_21:58:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653383": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I really loved the screen of the Sony PSP. Nicely bright with lots of color.  It's a pity that to get full native resolution with avi files you need a hack and a 3rd party application.<br><br>It's also a pity those stupid memory stick pro duo cards are so proprietary and expensive.  But, I still prefer to use a PSP for watching movies than any portable DVD player out there.<br><br>A more interesting unit is the Cowan A2.  It only has a 30 GB 1.8\" hard drive, but, it has a similar screen to the PSP.  If only it could transfer images from my digital camera a lot faster and had a larger hard drive, it would be the perfect AVI playing and digital image display/storage device for me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:24:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "17bc907a266b286080941f5bd04ed625", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653384": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Archos 404, by the way, plays full DVD quality video. Not widescreen, but that's still better than the iPod. <a href=\"http://www.archos.com/products/video/archos_404/index.html?country=us&amp;lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.archos.com/products/video/archos_404...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_20:49:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653385": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think its simple; Apple doesn't need to go widescreen yet, because they haven't saturated their market with 4:3 screens yet. The minute a viable widescreen candidate (and no, the PSP isn't viable) shows up, Apple can switch, and they will get their huge market fan base to buy new iPods with this feature. Obviously they believe they can go another couple quarters with 4:3 screens, and given their market dominance, do you really think you can second guess them?<br><br>Remember Robert, you are a \"edge case\" :p<br><br>(I am baffled by Microsoft's Zune though-you'd think they would realize they can't just match the iPod, they have to go several steps beyond it...and wifi and \"bigger screen\" isn't going to cause the buzz they need. Notice too how Jobs lowball priced the 30G iPod 2 days before the Zune launch-he must be paying SOME attention :P )", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:01:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "62df2ce940b84b60f8eef26d8e615c13", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653386": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, your bad. Remove all references to HD from this post. Then remove all references to it being impossible to watch video with aspect ratios greater than 4:3 on the iPod. Then, since you've eliminated everything you said, start a new post that says: I'm one of those weird people who thinks the aspect ratio of the video must match the aspect ratio of the screen; does anyone else feel the same?<br><br>Then, you'd be accurate. Your point would still be stupid, but at least you'd have a modicum of accuracy and, hence, maybe some credibility would follow.<br><br>Of course, then the post would just be about those \"black strips\", and you'd find some that agree and plenty that disagree.<br><br>It's rather silly. My mom actually believes the same silly thing as you do. She will actually only rent panned-and-scanned movies because she thinks she can't and/or shouldn't watch widescreen on a standard TV, even if the TV screen is 42+ inches.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_21:53:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653387": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "HDTV on portable devices? Overkill, with zero demand, and really if you want HD, should waltz over to the PSP, but then over there, the storage options are quite narrow. But really, iPod and Zune are not the all, haven't you even poked around with the Archos devices? Or the Samsung YM-P1 or all the like? Expand your vision here. The iPod is not really a good portable video player (it's audio first, video half as an afterthought), and the Zune is just a me-too Microsoft trainwrecked joke.<br><br>But in industry terms, HD is meant for Home Theatre and HD content is saved for BluRay and HD-DVD next gen. formats. Torrents are all about compressional formats, and that's not ever going to mainstream, not legally or economically.<br><br>Rocketbloom over LOST? Nuts? That's near clinically insane. ;) LOST Season 3, so so far away, sigh. But 4400 upped for a 4th, and Battlestar and Veronica Mars beating down on Oct. and a new Season of Rome and Kyle XY hitting, with Prison Break on fire, heading towards Utah. And much much more. :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_21:32:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "cab1041ab2de14f71e070c15f8ae968e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653388": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh, back to the Tablet.<br><br>2 years from now you will be still pointing to small anecdotal claims about how important and successful HDTV is, and the rest of the market will be unimpressed or take it for granted... meanwhile they'll still wonder what you were raving about with Tablets.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_20:24:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653389": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh, and more related to the Tablet: you will act like an aficionado, pro, and snob while still not knowing much. For example, I don't know if you want HD or widescreen content. The two are not interchangeable. Apple does offer widescreen content. But 90+% of the video content is not widescreen (TV programming). Yes, Apple streams in widescreen... So? They offer STREAMS of content in VARIOUS resolutions based on your INTERNET CONNECTION. That does not mean that all devices and content they sell should be widescreen. It means they understand this better than you. A quality that frequently bubbles to the service whenever you fall in love with something.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_20:28:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653390": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Christian: Patrick, my son, has one and I agree that it's stunning. All it needs is an 80GB drive and it'd be awesome!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_19:55:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653391": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Anything available in HD (which is more and more) is ALWAYS widescreen and almost every major program like Lost, 24, American Idol, etc is available in HD.\"<br><br>What? I never said that HD is not widescreen. I said throwing around the two terms as if they are the same is not. What do you want: widescreen or HD? Which of the two qualities (high resolution or aspect ratio) are you whining about.<br><br>\"Every\" major show is a bit suspect. You only name three of the highest budgeted shows ever. As I said, I'm willing to allow about 10% of the content is available in HD.<br><br>\"What\u2019s ironic is that Steve Jobs own presentation yesterday is available in widescreen (albeit not HD) but you can\u2019t watch that widescreen video on your iPod in the aspect ratio it was filmed at.\"<br><br>Wrong! As I said, you don't know what you are talking about. I can watch widescreen video on my iPod in the aspect ratio it was filmed at. The screen is not in that aspect ratio. Just as any standard tv can also view widescreen/letterbox movies.<br><br>Again, you are wrong to proclaim this a major problem. And, two, you have little idea what you are talking about.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_21:28:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653392": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Can we have other examples of you visiting \"normal people\" besides Montana? What, do you go around like that guy selling Campbell's Soup and knocking on people's door saying \"HI, I'm Robert Scoble and would like to visit you to see what type of TV you have\".<br><br>So, please, give us examples of \"normal people\" you visit when you travel.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_01:51:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "26493d7270fb206c1e08599674e51e5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653393": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "mttsmnw: well, you can get lots of widescreen stuff on Bittorrent. ;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_20:19:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653394": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My 2 Cents:<br><br>- wait for the iTV to come out. Q1 of 2007, thats nearly half a year ... perhaps they'll get higher resolution or widescreen or both then. For now the movies are for iPods and perhaps some iMac users ... so: 4:3 and low res.<br><br>- I guess it sucks to download a full length movie in HDTV ... apple has to wait for even broader broadband to come ...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_20:18:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "d9f5ff17f47ad555d35fa1cbb44bcfcc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653396": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes Robert, looks like Apple will have improvements to announce for years to come.<br><br>I am shooting everything in HD, and formatting it that way.  I format the videos for iTunes to 320 x180, effectively letterboxing it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_19:44:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "b6c1028fc3f24edb78ebcd4255940f16", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653397": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "&gt;Secondly, I believe 4:3 is still dominant over 16:9.<br><br>When I first bought my first CD player there were only 40 CDs out on the market. Back then I was telling everyone that they should get rid of their record collections and buy CDs too. They eventually did. Just like if we come back in 10 years everything will be widescreen. No biggie. So I have to wait another year to get a widescreen iPod. In the meantime I'll whine about it. And you'll poke me for whining.<br><br>&gt; I think it\u2019s pretty pathetic that you will criticize Apple for not jumping on your bad ideas at the same time you insist that you should remain ignorant and incoherent.<br><br>I love how you put words in my mouth. But, whatever. I just am not so freaking pedantic as you are.<br><br>&gt;Are you suggesting that all of these are successes of just being first?<br><br>No. But they were evidence that Steve Jobs would buck conventional wisdom and try something new, even though there didn't seem to be a market there.<br><br>You seem to be wanting Apple to become Microsoft. Boring. Wait until the market is ready for 16:9. I'd rather be more aggressive. Get out ahead of the wave one more time and try something new.<br><br>&gt;Very little, if any, of Jobs success is due to catering to edge cases.<br><br>That's bullshit. Apple's whole business model is based on catering to edge cases. Remember 1977 when Apple started? How many people needed a personal computer back then. Only some weirdo edge cases in Silicon Valley.<br><br>You would have been making fun of them back then, that's how edge case they were.<br><br>&gt;And why would you need to be compatible with your son\u2019s songs?<br><br>Maybe I want to listen to his music? In the old days I could have let him borrow my CD's. But today his music is locked up in his iTunes (cause he buys a lot of music off of iTunes) thanks to Apple's DRM.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_23:39:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653398": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert:<br><br>I am not sure that the small screen or other quality-related issues matter to customers at the start of a disruptive innovation. Most disruptive innovations suffer tremendous deficiencies early on which causes competitors to underestimate the disruptive product's strengths.<br><br>*Blackberry had no phone or SMS capabilities when it launched<br>*iPod was Mac only when it launched<br>*iPod had few record company agreements when it launched<br>*Mac had little software when it launched<br>*ING direct has no bank branches<br>*Swatch watches were made of cheap plastic<br><br>But in each case, the disruptor had some unique quality that was so highly valued it overcame the product limitations.<br><br>As the broadcast industry and device companies ponder their video strategy, they may consider what some of iPod/iTune's attributes are, in the eyes of consumers and in the business model:<br><br>    * Simple: Single-function device; Not a PC/phone/swiss-army knife etc<br>    * Easy to use<br>    * Users pay for content<br>    * Apple had nothing to lose and the most to gain by cannabilizing the music business.<br><br>More details:<br><a href=\"http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2006/09/disrupting_tv.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2006/09/d...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_20:28:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "24a00840e05f1423285ca507aa74761a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653399": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, you are nuts. This is your new Tablet. Yes, people are buying more widescreen TVs (not necessarily HD), but they are doing so because they are cheap, more portable, and trendy. Most people don't care.<br><br>Most of the people bitching about HD are the same people who still claim Apple is stupid and failing for having 128K music (despite having sold more than a billion).<br><br>The adoption of HDTVs is still limited. Even as it does increase the average consumer doesn't care about the differences. And they do not want to undergo the task of downloading HGD content (people are complaining about the download time of this content).<br><br>Apple will set the market (by doing it well after early starters), make it a success, and improve the service when the technology and consumers are both there. Right now, neither the consumer or the technology is there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_20:22:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653400": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As you can see, the utter failure of the iPod is a tribute to your business acumen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:00:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653401": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just wait until the all-touchscreen iPod comes out... an iPod where the entire face of the device is a viewable touchscreen.  There have been rumors about this for months.  I think that would make a pretty nice widescreen display.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_21:42:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "9a7b376b39e08e464d13cb9bf9f939b0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653402": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Christopher: I'm NOT asking for HDTV on my iPod. I'm asking for Widescreen.<br><br>Goebbels: &gt;Which of the two qualities (high resolution or aspect ratio) are you whining about.<br><br>In this post? Aspect ratio.<br><br>In other posts where I've complained about the resolution of Apple's screens on laptops (they can't display HD pixel-for-pixel like some of Dell's screens can, for instance)? HD.<br><br>&gt;&gt;Wrong! As I said, you don\u2019t know what you are talking about. I can watch widescreen video on my iPod in the aspect ratio it was filmed at.<br><br>Obviously we have a failure to communicate here. My bad.<br><br>I want to watch a widescreen movie (like Steve Jobs' keynote) WITHOUT letterboxing! See the Archos or the Sony Play Station portable for an example (thanks Chris again).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_21:36:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653403": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Agreed 100%. As I keep saying in case of audio the difference cannot be made out, but in case of HD..yes its there to see.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_20:12:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "f2b0f4021c5db7f3465cb67c318a61ee", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653404": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The PSP would be the best mobile device around if it had an 80GB hard drive instead of a memory stick. Even a 2GB memory stick can't hold many movies.<br><br>The PSP has a beautiful 16:9 screen and it's also a great mobile web appliance. Unfortunately it's very picky about video formats (although the latest firmware improves that) and it won't play videos purchased in iTunes Music Store. Sony's new MYLO (is that what they call it?) looks like it's going to be interesting. It can play movies &amp; do most of what a PSP does except play games plus it has a keyboard, which will make it even better for web browsing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_21:41:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "052b51c329476fd3f72463cbea5fec53", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653405": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hi Robert,<br><br>if you want to see widescreen video on a portable device, there's only one choice: the Sony Playstation Portable.<br><br>Besides its gaming core, it's the best portable device so far on which I have watched a movie. That screen is fantastic!<br>You really should get one and make your own mind. You will not put it out of your hands. Promised.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_19:50:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "79d7f934159ce4b9d79d80873df282e9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653406": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There are multiple problems that Apple faces with HD, most of which boil down to cost. The majority of films haven't been filmed as HD-digital (for the obvious reason that it didn't exist!) and transferring 35mm film prints to HD through telecine is ferociously expensive. Secondly, boosting to HD or close to HD quality would triple Apple's already vast bandwidth bill.<br><br>But more importantly, demanding HD quality is a classic case of jumping AHEAD of the technology curve. You forget, Robert, that you're not a typical family in the US, let alone worldwide. When you say \"Do you have any clue how bad that looks on a good 60-inch 16:9 widescreen HDTV?\" you're betraying that - what do you think the market penetration of 60in HDTV's actually is?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_07:13:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "c29fe2f7103bf0af158bad23a66acb15", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653407": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow, Robert, I never thought of it that way. Good point! <strong>For once</strong>, I don't think you're nuts.<br><br>(Kidding!)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_19:51:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "ceccfa036290734e5e78a40c7cd70861", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653408": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "zune... the small screen is exactly why aspect ratio does matter. Most of what I watch, either from DVD or my own videos, is widescreen. Playing a 16:9 video on a 4:3 screen, I'm blacking out 25% of the pixels I paid for. Given the already-too-small/lowres screens out there on the pocket players, this is unacceptable. Add just the extra pixels necessary to extend your 4:3 to 16:9, and you get full use on widescreen material, and just what you have today on 4:3 (most existing 16:9 PMPs have higher resolutions screens, but also in the 4\"-4.25\" range or better).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-10-05_03:59:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "3b2e06b3d99d9fcad0ca2e7df6e04535", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653409": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dan G is confused about DVD widescreen: DVD is always 720x480 (720x576 PAL), and by \"widescreen\" we mean 16:9 vs. 4:3... those are the only two actual resolutions. And it's really just a matter of interpretation; a flag in file indicated 16:9 vs. 4:3 to the player.<br><br>DV camcorders generally offer the same option: you can set the camera to 16:9 or 4:3... different cameras deliver the video in different ways, but what goes on tape is always 720x480 NTSC.<br><br>Obviously, one you have digital screens at lower resolutions, it's not such a great idea to have non-square pixels on-screen; the resizing can be pretty obvious. Apple's new videos go all the way to 640 pixels, which of course is an easy bilinear scaling to deliver 320 pixels across (well, sure, it it's widescreen, in this case you'd resize in both dimensions). A larger screen will need more pixels, and a better resizing algorithm.<br><br>My iPod was stolen last July, and I haven't replaced it yet. I am absolutely waiting for a player that can handle widescreen. I may wait to see an Apple offering; if not, there are numerous others out there. Nothing quite as slick as the online mockups of the \"screen-only\" iPod. Then again, Apple doesn't make anything that slick, either... yet.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-10-05_03:54:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "3b2e06b3d99d9fcad0ca2e7df6e04535", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653410": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why not check out some of Archos' products? Not very many people have mentioned them. Their PVPs have 4 to 4.3\" screens, 16:9 screen, excellant video quality, a removable battery, one has a kickstand(604), you can record music and video with their dock, and they are releasing a wi-fi touchscreen version soon. <a href=\"http://www.archos.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.archos.com</a><br><br>I would like to see the ipod catch up to some of their competitors by releasing a \"true video\" player, but their are much better options out right now than the ipod. The ipod is a great MP3 player but it has a long way to go before it dominates the market in anything else.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-10-09_16:41:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "92691f26562a6930ccc10606960a8893", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653411": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why not check out some of Archos' products? Not very many people have mentioned them. Their PVPs have 4 to 4.3\" screens, 16:9 screen, excellant video quality, a removable battery, one has a kickstand(604), you can record music and video with their dock, and they are releasing a wi-fi touchscreen version soon.<br><br>I would like to see the ipod catch up to some of their competitors by releasing a \"true video\" player, but their are much better options out right now than the ipod. The ipod is a great MP3 player but it has a long way to go before it dominates the market in anything else.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-10-09_16:40:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "92691f26562a6930ccc10606960a8893", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653412": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I argee with Mike, I just bought the 504 16:9 version of the Archos player. The screen is killer, scanning through pics is very fast, it basically is a PVR on the go, docking station allows you to output via componet video so you can at least have DVD quality playback when your on the road etc... I wish I would have gotten the 160 gig version.  Great device but a tad expensive, but it is very versitile!!  I love iPods but went this route because of the flexiblity of the device.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-11-13_03:07:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "fa59b873dd89fcc91914179797c63251", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653336": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>did I miss something? I didn't see anywhere a mention that the Zune will allow you to subscribe to podcasts (audio or video).<br><br>Consuming podcasts is all I use my iPod for.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-15_05:21:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "4014faa76f94764aeb84e70bf39bf22f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653337": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"No. I won\u2019t. My HDTV camera shoots in widescreen. Look at my viewfinder. Now, why isn\u2019t the display the same shape on an iPod as it is on a Sony camcorder.\"<br><br>Why are you continuing to tell me to do silly things (that I've already done)? I know what you are saying, disagree with, and am trying to correct you. Yes, you are saying: viewing windows and screens should match the aspect ratio, and (more significantly), despite a variety of aspect ratios for our current media offerings, that aspect ratio should be 16:9. (Of course, since you think every viewing area should now be 16:9, you are not saying and/or contradicting that the point that the viewing area should match the content with respect to aspect ratio.<br><br>\"These concepts are all interlaced.\"<br><br>Yes, and I disagree with you on most or believe you are wrong on most of the issues. Viewing area aspect ratio does not have to match content ratio. (I'd much more simply prefer higher pixel densities to match a broad range of resolutions no matter the aspect ratio.<br><br>Secondly, I believe 4:3 is still dominant over 16:9.<br><br>I believe HD is not mainstream enough yet and it's not worth pursuing in either a mainstream or a developing market. (And the markets we are talking about are best viewed as both, strategically.)<br><br>I believe other factors like portability, cost, internet connection speeds, storage capacities, and simple acceptance weigh heavily against the directions that you suggest.<br><br>Another concept interlaced in our dialogue is that you are misinformed, trying to pass yourself as the vanguard or possibly knowledgeable about the market, and I am demonstrating the concept that you should be mocked as a fraud who is wrong.<br><br>\"But, the point is there.\"<br><br>Yes, I know. I was aware of it before you could clearly express it in your convoluted, misspoken, misinformed manner. I said I disagree with it, and I'm still saying it. I'm also saying you are wrong.<br><br>\"I understand you\u2019re trying to be pedantic and perfect in your messaging.\"<br><br>I thought I was trying to educate you to speak about these topics correctly so you could be comprehensible to your audience.<br><br><br>\"And, if it\u2019s not, most of my readers read my comments and can see your correction.\"<br><br>Again, you insist that you enjoy wallowing in your own ignorance and do not want to improve your knowledge. Fine. You don't have to keep telling me. I think it's pretty pathetic that you will criticize Apple for not jumping on your bad ideas at the same time you insist that you should remain ignorant and incoherent.<br><br>\"but how did Apple get to this position (you too John)? By always waiting for the market to show up before trying something? Really? Was the market really ready for a GUI computer in 1984? A Laser Printer in 1985? A Newton in 2004?\"<br><br>Are you suggesting that all of these are successes of just being first? Is that what you are reducing it too? There are numerous \"interlaced\" factors in each of those success as well, none of them concerned allowing you to be happy with your multi-thousand dollar tv and camera and nonexistent portable device.<br><br>\"So, you\u2019re saying that it\u2019s a smart business move to wait until someone else does it first (Archos) and proves there\u2019s a market before acting?\"<br><br>No, we are saying your simplistic notion that jumping ahead with respect to one aspect (aspect ratio) and maybe another (HD) are critical and pivotal and timely right now for Apple (or any other company but for some reason (hmm... hit-whoring?) mostly Apple) to succeed and/or continue succeeding is wrong because there are more important issues.<br><br>Are you suggesting that being first is the only way to succeed, or that it guarantees success, or... what?<br><br>\"Steve Jobs didn\u2019t get to where he was by waiting for the market to be ready. He got to where he is by catering to edge cases like, yes, me.\"<br><br>Very little, if any, of Jobs success is due to catering to edge cases. He does things that are fun and creative and profitable... new things that become whole industries and lifestyles: personal computing, educational computing, creative computing with DTP and graphic arts, advanced digital effects and animation, sophisticated (Pixar), personal developments tools and hardware (NeXT), back to his roots, quality family entertainment/media (Pixar/Disney)... I don't think he ever said: there's an edge case geek that will spend thousands, I want to sell him stuff.<br><br>\"Because Apple has the best choice of podcasts of any of these things and because my son has spent about $400 on iTunes music and I wanna remain compatible with that investment.\"<br><br>See: more insanity. Alleged blog/podcast guru buys iPod because he can't get content onto another device without the iTunes Store podcast aggregator despite the ability of most any device to consume the majority audio and video podcasts? Weirdness. Scoble you need neither an iPod or iTunes to access these podcasts. And why would you need to be compatible with your son's songs? Even when you make a good decision, it's for misinformed, ill-conceived, bad reasons.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_23:25:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653338": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I disagree scoobie doo.  The screens are so small it makes no difference what the aspect ratio is.  If you want a wider aspect ratio put some black tape on the top and bottom of the screen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_21:25:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "5ea0101f17a26d0748d00be3ca0551e9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653339": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Starting from November 14, those lame apple fanboys will gradually become an extinct species. And their lame whitey ipod thing (an abomination) will be used as an expensive paperweight. 'nuff said.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_19:46:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "227c853def02630b56531e6fef94cab8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653340": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michael, 50% of TVs sold is no where near 50% of all TVs though. And the TVs have upped the anti because the market had essentially gone stagnant and offering HD is easy, obvious, and relatively cheap. It's similar to cellphones having video cameras and disc storage and more application features. It has less to do with demand and more to do with the fact that these features can be thrown in for little cost to boost demand where little exists. A portable device is a whole different story: tons of demand in a nascent market, other areas which will also advance with technology (memory size, connectivity, screens, size, add-ons), the needs of a new and fickle market, etc...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_18:27:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653341": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I love how scoble thinks he's Apple's primary target consumer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-15_21:40:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "98583d556bf0b5c55f7a62217ceeafcc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653342": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Totally agree with you on this one Robert. I just read an article that said more than 50% of all TVs sold last year were High Def. Why the portables arent doing a wide screen format makes no sense to me either", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_17:03:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "7a94ab3bcd3cdb8395728b8b1cd60672", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653343": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As Adam aais in #62 there seems to be a huge amount of confusion over HDTV, widescreen etc.<br><br>Widescreen TV is in a 16:9 format, rather than the old 4:3. However, it still uses the same number of \"lines\" as the old system, 500 for NTSC and 600 for PAL iirc.<br><br>Films are usually filmed in super-widescreen (2.35:1); any major US tv show is filmed in 16:9. In Europe, 16:9 is now standard for broadcast (and there are very few 4:3 TVs left, either for sale or in people's homes).<br><br>HDTV refers to upping the number of \"lines\", either to 720 or, in the highest standard, 1080. Very little is broadcast in this format, a few satellite and cable channles I believe (either side of the pond). You'll be able to buy HD content on Blu Ray or HD-DVD soon, but afaik there's few players and fewer discs available at the moment.<br><br>DVDs are 720x480. If the content on the DVD is widescreen, e.g. a film, the 720 remains the same but the 480 gets cut down to whatever is required. It still looks just fine on a large screen though, as you've all no doubt witnessed.<br><br>Job's 640x480 looks good on TVs. It will remain 640 in width but will get cut down in height for widescreen content, which all their content on iTunes 7 will be delivered in (I think someone above worked out to be 640x275). You'd be hard-pressed to tell this apart from a DVD.<br><br>Finally, I expect the iTV will be fully capable of supporting HDTV (i.e. 720+ lines), but as stated HDTV content has monster storage requirements. You won't be able to stream it wirelessly whatever the standard used (MCEs struggle unless their practically in line-of-sight with the wireless router; Apple's kit will be no different). If they're wired via Ethernet though, it won't be a problem. It'll take a night to download the movies though ;-).<br><br>Make no mistake though, HDTV will become standard, just as colour did over BW, and 16:9 and digital have replaced analouge 4:3 transmission in Europe.<br>Things progress!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_15:00:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "a0b649256a4d44f0fff6434b1c2dafbc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653344": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Police - Ghost in the Machine<br>Record album - I paid $7<br>Tape - I paid $9<br>CD - I paid $15<br>MP3 - $1 per song<br><br>Why do we have to pay over and over for the exact same content? I'm sure they want us to do the same thing with movies. You pay for the theather, the VHS, the DVD, the MP4, and whatever else they can come up with.<br><br>I'm sure they love all the money, but sorry, I'm not playing.<br><br>As for how it will play out in the future, would you rather own iTunes with a crappy 640x480 platform with crappy little ipod screens or the Xbox Live platform with high definition devices that can play high definition movies, a broadband infrastructure, and a possible portable device coming later?\"<br><br>I'd take Xbox Live.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_11:06:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "fc6c68a33069cab762981409b4e160d2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653345": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's worth noting that widescreen and HD really aren't the same thing. In the UK, I've had a widescreen TV for over ten years now, and HD was only launched this year. I'd say that for at least five years now, all major TV purchases have been widescreen here, and it's a similar picture across the rest of Europe. And before I even got a DVD player, I was only buying VHS movies in widescreen format.<br><br>As a result, I would never buy a device at the moment that didn't offer widescreen. It's just not future-proof. For me it'd be like buying a VCR.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_09:15:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "26902f7564ac50f940e2ab2b4f947f26", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653346": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I had to write something because I can't believe everyone takes Steve's words in a press release as fact. The music videos on the store have been upsized to 640x480. That is what he demoed. If you look at the movies most (if not all.. I couldn't find one that wasn't) are widescreen. I even bought Hitchiker's to check it out. It's 640x272. Which yes is a lower than DVD resolution. But it is a 1:2.35 aspect ratio. That's widescreen. That's most likely the ratio the store bought DVD is in even.<br><br>As for HD content, yes it's the new thing, and yes I have an HD tv, but we're not going to see a large amount of content for it until the market is much more penetrated than it is right now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_07:49:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "76e01cd8fcc2782817b071374eccfbac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653347": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Product design is always about trade-offs. I love the IKEA motto--the first thing we design is the price. Lots of testimony above to why going HD end-to-end for downloadable content would price a product out of the sweet spot in the market.<br><br>True, things are tipping to HD for new TVs. But not everybody is buying new TVs this year.<br><br>I recently visited some friends and their neigbors in North Hollywood. They work in the film &amp; TV business. They have old, old TVs. And upgrading the TV is not very high on their priorities. Shocking. Statistically useless sample, but I was, nevertheless, surprised to see it.<br><br>BTW, Robert... what's the path in your house to get HD video from a computer drive to your big Sony? Are you seeing any QoS issues? audio or video glitches?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_07:50:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "c2ec17b9df58d5843b147cf69deef262", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653348": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hm... no one talking about Zune.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-15_16:44:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "ad6b3ed70e18b565dca6c4f179f098f2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653349": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How about the simplest reason as to no widescreen is this way in 2008 they can have a big to do about offering the 160 gb widescreen ipod that is as thin as the nano.  Technology today is like an underclocked processor it can go faster, but than how can u slowly churn out slightly faster ones at higher prices.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_02:25:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "17eb407ed9758f40f2f61ad3a1ed1fea", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653350": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LayZ: no. Why don't you follow me around on a trip?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_01:54:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653351": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Back then I was telling everyone that they should get rid of their record collections and buy CDs too. They eventually did. Just like if we come back in 10 years everything will be widescreen.\"<br><br>Yes, the transition took ten years, and yes, this one will take just as long, if not longer. So why is your point that wr should be disappointed today because it's not ten years from now?<br><br>\"I love how you put words in my mouth. But, whatever. I just am not so freaking pedantic as you are.\"<br><br>You won't acknowledge the numerous corrections: you are wallowing in your own ignorance.<br><br>And I'm not being pedantic, I'm being accurate. I \"understand\" your argument however badly you express it, and you can continue to express it poorly if you like. I'll choose accuracy and intelligence over vague, misinformed arguments.<br><br>\"No. But they were evidence that Steve Jobs would buck conventional wisdom and try something new, even though there didn\u2019t seem to be a market there.\"<br><br>Part of my point is this is YOUR perspective. You think it was unconventional wisdom, you think there wasn't a market. Jobs and others didn't. You think there is a need NOW for this. I don't. Vaguely extrapolating your perspective on Jobs' past does nothing to convince me of your perspective.<br><br>\"You seem to be wanting Apple to become Microsoft. Boring. Wait until the market is ready for 16:9. I\u2019d rather be more aggressive. Get out ahead of the wave one more time and try something new.\"<br><br>Not in the least. Agrressive isn't necessarily interesting, often it's obvious. Often it's what Microsoft does: throw everything in the XBox, make Tablets everyone wants one, make Origamis, everyone wants one, make phones, everyone wants one, make an iPod ripoff and throw everything at it, everyone wants one. That's boring, unimaginative, and uninteresting. It's \"Bigger is better\" writ large. It's stupid. I want Apple to be smart, considered, focused on the consumer, the competition, its core... I want a lot of things. None of which has to do with them delivering a large aspect ratio in a portable device NOW.<br><br>I also have full confidence that Apple is ahead of the wave right now, but the marketplace isn't ready.<br><br>\"That\u2019s bullshit. Apple\u2019s whole business model is based on catering to edge cases. Remember 1977 when Apple started? How many people needed a personal computer back then. Only some weirdo edge cases in Silicon Valley. \"<br><br>So? Again, your perspective. Woz and Jobs thought: enough people want this to make us happy. It makes us happy.<br><br>Nothing in their motivation said to them: whatever edge cases want to do, we want to do.<br><br>\"You would have been making fun of them back then, that\u2019s how edge case they were.\"<br><br>No, Scoble. You really don't get me. I wwould respect a guy to no end that could convince a company he could build a game in a weekend and get his friend to do it for him while he slacked off, build a multi-million dollar company that revolutionized how employees behave in the workplace/space from a garage with a few circuits strapped to plywood.<br><br>It's people like you who think they are edge cases because they whine at the fringes about things they have no clue about... their knowledge is limited to what they are able to buy, and they buy the silly toys so they can feel ahead of people. Those are the people I make fun of.<br><br>\"Maybe I want to listen to his music? In the old days I could have let him borrow my CD\u2019s. But today his music is locked up in his iTunes (cause he buys a lot of music off of iTunes) thanks to Apple\u2019s DRM.\"<br><br>And you can share over the network, burn disks, or simply circumvent the DRM... but that wasn't my major point: whether or not you want to sample your son's music with him (once or twice or when you are with him), can't he use the iPod or lone it to you? Moreover, I was questioning how much of an investment this truly was: do you really want to listen to his music repeatedly as if it was your own? If so, how much of it? And how does a hundred bucks or so rate to someone who has a several thousand dollar camera, a several thousand dollar TV, a new house in Half Moon Bay, and wants a luxury nonexistent HD-enable widescreen personal media device as a major investment pinning him down? I mean, come on, seriously... is it the DRM or your silly notions that \"lock\" you into the iPod.<br><br>I also note you completely avoided my point about the podcasts: are you acknowledging you need iTunes to help you get podcasts on your iPod? Sad.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_00:12:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653352": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Couldn't agree more - I blogged <a href=\"http://www.marius.org/2006/09/12/apple_what_are_they_thinking.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">very similar thoughts</a> yesterday.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_02:44:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "fa78be7a012416275cb1271cf889beaf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653353": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Archos AV500 and AV700 are both widescreen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_00:16:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "109bf9f640e64e8e7de189e7eb6dd201", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653354": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Apple's gotta leave some candy for Christmas.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_23:06:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "198ae0800b22b166e9f1cdf91d7683de", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653355": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "&gt;I also note you completely avoided my point about the podcasts: are you acknowledging you need iTunes to help you get podcasts on your iPod?<br><br>No, again, you are being pedantic with my words. I said iTunes handled Podcasts a lot better than any other service I've used. We'll see tomorrow if Zune makes that better.<br><br>&gt;I wwould respect a guy to no end that could convince a company he could build a game in a weekend and get his friend to do it for him while he slacked off, build a multi-million dollar company that revolutionized how employees behave in the workplace/space from a garage with a few circuits strapped to plywood.<br><br>Steve Jobs did all that in 1977? Really? Damn, now you're rewritting Silicon Valley history.<br><br>My point was that they were edge cases. You just proved that you would have treated them as such until they got rich. Fine. I understand. You really don't care about new ideas, you just care about kissing the feet of people who made a big business. Got it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_00:22:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653356": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I would like to buy a video ipod with a bigger 16.9 ratio screen. Even to show people the HD video i shoot while paragliding. Portablility and ease of use are important but the screen size also makes a big difference. After living with a big widescreen HD TV watching regular TV on a 4-3 19 inch screen is disappointing. As the living room screen size improves the portable screen size should improve  also... how baout the new games on the IPOD ? any comments .. according to Seattle Weekly MSFT will make a Zune announcement tomorrow..", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:59:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "a3cea718797c4164dc59f19386dd87d0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653357": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Majority of the videos out now are in 4:3 format, not 16:9. Most music videos and tv shows are displayed in 4:3. My brother has a very nice Widecreen HDTV like 42\". I think it's a shitty experience searching for channels with HD then having the TV display standard def. Looks like shit. The iPod will go 16:9 when the majority of it's users go 16:9.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_23:22:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "b4c15007f7d16c7c6db1c9e1cd7ef381", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653358": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John: when I travel I visit normal people's homes. Even in \"poor\" Montana where I saw quite a few wide-screen TVs.<br><br>But, let's go over it again, shall we? My $4,000 TV comes out to about $120 a month. You think people actually buy these things? Nah, Best Buy signs you up for credit on the spot.<br><br>That comes to $120 a month.<br><br>So, let's say you have a family of four. And you go to a movie theater. In Montana movies cost $7. In New York, they are $10 to $12. So, that's $28 in tickets (actually $26 cause kids are $6). Add four hot dogs. $4x4=$16. Four Cokes. $4x4=$16. And two bags of popcorn: $3.50x2=$7. That's $65.<br><br>So, go to movies twice a month and you can have an HDTV too!<br><br>And as prices come down it pulls in a lot more people (not just geeks, either, Best Buy is seeing strong sales at its oldest stores that aren't in Silicon Valley).<br><br>Here's a quote from an article about Best Buy in Bloomberg at <a href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=aF768Urn4TD4&amp;refer=us:\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103...</a><br><br>``Advanced TVs continue to grow triple digits and that's the third quarter in a row,'' said Mlynek. ``I think that'll be reassuring to investors.''", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:14:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653359": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree - Apple can post the content in HD. But the model is not quite there.<br><br>TiVo announced their Series 3. 300 hours of SD. 32 hours of HD. Big difference.<br><br>HDTV is here today. The devices are going into homes (a side effect of the real estate boom over the last few years has been the upgrade of appliances including widescreen, HD ready TVs). Broadcast HDTV is available from the networks. The cable companies all have HD channels and the triple play packages are all HD. The content producers - particularly sports which are a huge business - are pushing HD content.<br><br>And, yes, as noted, the BitTorrent Channels seem to be the HD stuff as well.<br><br>The model of getting that distributed point to point, sized on handhelds, and for the right dollars still needs time.<br><br>Remember, yesterday was day 1.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_20:33:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "c2722dc7d0af3bf77654b5332ce0e119", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653360": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, that just shows HOW much an edge case you are-you are even ahead of Apple's schedule :p<br><br>Seriously though, don't you already see that in Apple's other offerings? The entire switch to Intel used the same ID for every platform. The new Nano is actually a play on the old (very successful) Mini. Only the Shuffle is a completely new design. Apple may indeed be changing their approach.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:50:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "62df2ce940b84b60f8eef26d8e615c13", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653361": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jobs in one of the post announcement press interviews said that iTV will support true HDTV resolutions but that they are currently contrained by bandwidth.  Both broadband, ie to have a 90 minutes show download in 30 minutes (assuming as Steve did 5 MB/s) and and wireless.  Apple only said that iTV will have 802.11 wireless.  He explicitly did not mention if it will be a,b,g or n.  By the end of 1Q 07, n may be far enough along for Apple to support it.  n will provide up to 200 MB/s local wireless bandwidth.  That bandwidth, by the way, is still too small to stream true HDTV, but it is a lot closer.  As the bandwidth increases the iTV will provide video as high rez as provided to the connected TV.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:52:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "14ffdddd3766fce091d0d4b9ee4aeb46", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653362": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert: Ironically, I blogged on this yesterday - and came to the same conclusion you did. What I'm wondering is why they didn't do a full-screen thing, and put in a virtual navigation wheel, with a touchscreen. It would make perfect sense, with the wheel disappearing when not needed, and appearing as a semi-transparent overlay when it is. And why not add Bluetooth for headphones and wireless syncing?<br><br>Looks like this time around, Apple's content with being one of the crowd, instead of leading from out in front.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:35:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "d8c7eb54fdcd7ecfd31d9ef3c186b0c3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653363": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Next year it's showtime 16:9.<br><br>And Apple, Ebay and many more could have earned millions.<br><br>Anyway, the HDTV in Europe is not ready yet, although Germany had the world championships and flat screens were promoted like crazy, a lot people did not realize that there might be also a HDTV receiver nessary to receiver it's content. A lot are still plugging in there old VHS Recorders to the new screen.<br><br>It take another year or so to get HDTV to the masses. And again another year until those also by an Ipod.<br><br>You (and most of the guys here arround including me ;-)) are ahead  schedule... hehehehe<br><br>Although I do not even have a TV because the content is so bad, I do prefer my selected shows from the Internet and a 19\" TFT (widescreen). ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:38:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "1af2d716a1d91def61e5294b42acd26b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653364": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"No, again, you are being pedantic with my words. I said iTunes handled Podcasts a lot better than any other service I\u2019ve used. We\u2019ll see tomorrow if Zune makes that better.\"<br><br>I was being sarcastic, not pedantic. Being pedantic would be saying: \"No, you didn't say it handled Podcasts best, you said it had the best choice of podcasts suggesting that you were referring to the quanity and quality of content and the inability to get it otherwise.<br><br>\"Steve Jobs did all that in 1977? Really? Damn, now you\u2019re rewritting Silicon Valley history.\"<br><br>Now, you are being pedantic: I can't bring a brief and hperbolistic overview of some of Jobs' successes and exploits because you specifically referred to 1977? Get a life. You can whip out the lame \"pedantic\" card all you want, but try not to be a hypocrite about it.<br><br>\"My point was that they were edge cases.\"<br><br>No, your point was that serving edge cases was a way to succeed. I have no qualms with the notion that edge cases can be successful, I do have a problem with the notion that not appealling to edge cases is a problem for a business.<br><br>\"You just proved that you would have treated them as such until they got rich.\"<br><br>Again, you don't get me. I'm quite certain I would have liked them much better before they were rich. Woz is a tool in his own world and Jobs is unapproachable. I treat people in many different ways, but money is not a factor: I treat both rich and poor people well and like shit.<br><br>\"You really don\u2019t care about new ideas, you just care about kissing the feet of people who made a big business. Got it.\"<br><br>\"Your\" idea is NOT new. That's part of my point. It's not significant is another part of my point. Another part is that there are many more significant and interesting factors than aspect ratio.<br><br>Get it? Doubt it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_00:41:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653365": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, you're not nuts. But you are impatient. We're in the middle of a transition from 4:3 to 16:9 for TV (probably at the tipping point or close to it). Two points: 1) The ATSC standards for HDTV were published ten years ago. It's taken that long to get as far as we have. Maybe 10% of US TVs will be HD at the end of this year.  But suddenly, as soon as any of us crosses over and buys a wide screen TV we demand widescreen content. period. 2) the iPod screen is not just for videos and movies. What about photos? Most digital cameras shoot in 4:3. Film cameras vary, but rarely go widescreen. The majority of the world's graphics are not widescreen. Back in July, you posted about GalleryPlayer's service which provided art for HDTVs. Most of that art gets <a href=\"http://mickeleh.blogspot.com/2006/07/art-on-tv-not-what-artist-had-in-mind.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">cropped badly</a> because it wasn't created in the widescreen format. 4:3 screens are not evil. They're just an endangered species. By all means keep pressing for wide. And do your part to produce in HDTV 16:9. We'll get there--even Apple.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-14_00:49:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "e8f12c9da0b77775525922347c7d4fa6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653366": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chris: just because you don't have your channels in HD, doesn't mean they aren't being done.<br><br>When I lived in Seattle I had a large number of good channels on HD (ABC, CBS, NBC, even PBS was all in HD). But, I just moved down to Half Moon Bay and Comcast hasn't yet brought in HD, so I have to get satellite.<br><br>I agree that it sucks when a show is in 4:3, by the way. I find it very hard to watch.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_23:24:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653367": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michael,<br><br>&gt;&gt;How easily the Zune (and copyright restrictions) allow for sharing will determine whether it is a standout product or an iPod clone.<br><br>I agree there and with your other points.<br><br>Christopher,<br><br>Yeah, my hopes aren't very high for Microsoft getting much market share here. To tell the truth, I'm probably going to buy an iPod. Why? Because Apple has the best choice of podcasts of any of these things and because my son has spent about $400 on iTunes music and I wanna remain compatible with that investment.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:25:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653369": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think long-term, HDTV is one thing that will survive the Scoble Kiss of Death (SKD), but price points will have to be in order, and it will take years to commodity out. Anyways, end prog. Recusing myself from the pending 'black strip' wars. :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:25:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "cab1041ab2de14f71e070c15f8ae968e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653370": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I bought \"The Life Aquatic\" from iTunes and played it on my TV. It is widescreen and it looks terrific! Here is how I did it: <a href=\"http://podslug.com/blog/?p=59\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://podslug.com/blog/?p=59</a><br><br>Has anyone else here actually bought a movie and tried it out?<br><br>Erik", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_22:25:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae0d6164f8fe6e21e33d6b902b075306", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653371": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michael: I agree.<br><br>It just gives Steve Jobs something to announce next year. Heheh.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_20:37:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653372": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Goebbels: you don't watch the same TV I do. Anything available in HD (which is more and more) is ALWAYS widescreen and almost every major program like Lost, 24, American Idol, etc is available in HD.<br><br>What's ironic is that Steve Jobs own presentation yesterday is available in widescreen (albeit not HD) but you can't watch that widescreen video on your iPod in the aspect ratio it was filmed at.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_20:34:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653373": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Which of the two qualities (high resolution or aspect ratio) are you whining about.</i><br><br>Yeah, I was trying to make sense of that too...someone hand me the Scoble to English dictionary. ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_21:36:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "cab1041ab2de14f71e070c15f8ae968e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653374": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, at least there's the Creative Zen W: <a href=\"http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/one-second-update-creative-zen-w-porno-shot-198556.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/o...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_21:06:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "37acfa32b1e90ad742e7bdd28905ea95", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9653375": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Goebbels: No. I won't. My HDTV camera shoots in widescreen. Look at my viewfinder. Now, why isn't the display the same shape on an iPod as it is on a Sony camcorder.<br><br>These concepts are all interlaced. I understand you're trying to be pedantic and perfect in your messaging. But, the point is there. And, if it's not, most of my readers read my comments and can see your correction.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-13_21:58:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "18460614", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "125200", "hash": -3892256625209975509}, "thread": {"total_posts": 0, "paginate": false, "per_page": 0, "slug": "why_i8217m_disappointed_with_zune_and_latest_ipods", "num_pages": 1, "days_alive": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 18460614, "num_posts": 75, "closed": true, "queued": false, "killed": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": false, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "faaf467d0f47abde553c3b8e0e1b3570", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
  this.MODERATE_OPTIONS = "Moderate Options";

  // Thread moderator actions
  this.CLOSE_THREAD = "Close thread";
  this.OPEN_THREAD = "Open thread";
  this.REMOVE_THREAD = "Remove thread";
  this.RESTORE_THREAD = "Restore thread";
  this.ACTIONS = "Actions";
};
// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
	// Seems we have to use named interpolation for Django to translate. Investigate more.
	this.LOGGED_IN_AS = function(username) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logged in as %(username)s', {username:username});
	};

	this.LOGOUT_FROM = function(disqus) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logout from %(disqus)s', {disqus:disqus});
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comment", {num:num, total:total});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comments", {num:num, total:total});
		}
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
	};
};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = 'a2d140c59df8cd4ce27a20e0829cacd8';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



var FragmentPacket = function(reader, writer, writer_url, is_child, receiveCallback) {
	var that = this;
	this.reader = reader;
	this.writer = writer;
	this.writer_url = writer_url;

	this.is_child = is_child || false;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

	this.READY		= 0x1;
	this.WRITING	= 0x2;
	this.FIN		= 0x4;
	this.ACK		= 0x8;

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
		that.recv();
	};
	return window.setInterval(listener, 10);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
	var hash;
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
		if (hashIndex == -1) {
			return;
		}
		hash = this.reader.location.href.substring(hashIndex+1);
	}
	var flags = parseInt(hash.substring(0, 4), 10);
	var seqno = parseInt(hash.substring(4, 24), 10);
	var data  = hash.substring(24);

	if (this._lastHash !== hash) {
		this._lastHash = hash;
		this.log('recv: ' + hash);

		this.log(' flags: ' + flags);
		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

		if (flags & this.WRITING) {
			this._accumMsg += data;
			this.sendFlag(this.ACK, seqno);
			if (flags & this.FIN) {
				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

				this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
			}
		}
	}

	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
	};
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
		this.writer.name = packet;
	} else {

		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
	}

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
	this.sendRawPacket(this._zerofill(flag, 4) + this._zerofill(seqno, 20));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
	this._send(0, encodeURIComponent(msg));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._send = function(packetNum, msg) {
	var that = this;
	var recvBuf = this.recv();

	if (packetNum === 0) {

		if (!(recvBuf.flags & this.READY)) {
			this.log('client is not ready, waiting...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		}
	} else {

		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		} else {
			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
	}

	var flags = this.WRITING;
	var num_packets = Math.ceil(msg.length / this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	this.log('num_packets: ' + num_packets);

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

		this.log('message successfully sent!');
		this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
		return true;
	}

	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
		flags |= this.FIN;
	}

	var data = msg.substring(packetNum * this.MAX_DATA_LEN, (packetNum+1) * this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	var packet = this._zerofill(flags, 4) + this._zerofill(this._lastSeqno, 20) + data;

	this.log('sending raw packet: ' + packet);
	this.sendRawPacket(packet);

	return this._send(packetNum + 1, msg);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
	var retval = num.toString();
	var retval_len = retval.length;
	for (var i = 0; i < width - retval_len; i++) {
		retval = '0' + retval;
	}
	return retval;
};

var PostMessagePacket = function(receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId) {
	var that = this;
	this.receiver = receiver;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;
	this.id = id;


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;

	var listener = function(e) {

		if (!that.id) {
			that.id = e.data;
			return;
		}


		var id = e.data.split(';')[0];
		if (id !== that.id) {
			return;
		}
		var data = e.data.substring(e.data.indexOf(';') + 1);

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

	if (typeof window.attachEvent == 'function') {
		window.attachEvent('onmessage', listener);
	} else if (typeof window.addEventListener == 'function') {
		window.addEventListener('message', listener, false);
	} else {
		throw new Error('No method found to create event listener for PostMessagePacket.');
	}
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



	var needs_reget = false;
	try {
		if (typeof this.receiver.id == 'undefined' || typeof this.receiver.postMessage == 'undefined') {
			needs_reget = true;
		}
	} catch(e) {


	}
	if (needs_reget && typeof this.receiverId != 'undefined') {
		this.receiver = document.getElementById(this.receiverId).contentWindow;
	}

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

		packet = this.id;
	} else {
		packet = this.id + ';' + msg;
	}
	this.receiver.postMessage(packet, '*');
};

PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = null;
PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id = function() {
	var id = (new Date()).getTime();
	if (id == PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id) {
		id++;
	}
	PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = id;
	return id.toString();
};

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

	this.objectToJSON = function(obj) {
		var json = '';
		var results = [];

		if (obj === undefined || obj === null) {
			return 'null';
		}

		switch (obj.constructor) {
			case Object:
				for (var property in obj) {
					if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
						results.push(this.objectToJSON(property) + ': ' + this.objectToJSON(obj[property]));
					}
				}
				json = '{' + results.join(', ') + '}';
				break;
			case Array:
				for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
					results.push(this.objectToJSON(obj[i]));
				}
				json = '[' + results.join(', ') + ']';
				break;
			case Number:
			case Boolean:
				json = obj.toString();
				break;
			case String:

				var specialChars = {'\b': '\\b', '\t': '\\t', '\n': '\\n', '\f': '\\f', '\r': '\\r', '\\': '\\\\'};

				json = obj.replace(/[\x00-\x1f\\]/g, function(match) {
					var ch = specialChars[match];
					return ch ? ch : '\\u00' + match.charCodeAt().toPaddedString(2, 16);
				});

				json = '"' + json.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';
				break;
			default:

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

	this.createHandler = function(send_func, registered_funcs) {
		var that = this;
		var handler = function(message) {

			try {
				var rpc = eval('(' + message + ')');
			} catch(e) {
				alert('bad JSON: ' + message);
				return;
			}
			if (rpc.method) {

				if (!registered_funcs[rpc.method]) {
					return;
				}

				var retval = registered_funcs[rpc.method].apply(null, rpc.params);
				if (rpc.id) {
					var response = {
						result: retval,
						error: null,	// TODO
						id: rpc.id
					};
					send_func(that.objectToJSON(response));
				}
			} else if(rpc.result) {

				if (!that.ids[rpc.id]) {
					return;
				}

				that.ids[rpc.id](rpc.result);
				delete that.ids[rpc.id];
			}
		};
		return handler;
	};

	this.execute = function(send_func, method, params, response_callback) {
		response_callback = response_callback || null;
		var id = (response_callback) ? (new Date()).getTime() : null;

		var request = {
			method: method,
			params: params,
			id: id
		};

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

		if (id) {
			this.ids[id] = response_callback;
		}
	};
};
JsonRpc = new JsonRpc();

var ParentMessenger = function(childUrl, receiverUrl, container, receiveCallback) {


	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0 && parseInt(navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Version/') + 8), 10) == 3) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	} else if (window.opera) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}



	if (!receiverUrl &&
		navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') >= 0 &&
		parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.slice(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 3, navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 6)) < 1.9) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}


	if (/msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {


		if (document.domain == window.location.hostname) {
			receiverUrl = '';
		}
	}

	var that = this;
	this.childUrl = childUrl;
	this.receiverUrl = receiverUrl;
	this.container = container || document.body;

	this.packetHandler = null;


	this._ready = false;
	this._error = false;


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

		that.receiver = document.createElement('iframe');
		that.receiver.src = receiverUrl;
		that.receiver.id = 'receiver_' + (new Date()).getTime();
		that.receiver.name = that.receiver.id;

		that.receiver.frameBorder = '0';
		that.receiver.frameSpacing = '0';
		that.receiver.style.borderStyle = 'none';

		var receiver_onload = function() {
			var receiver = document.getElementById(that.receiver.id).contentWindow;

			try {
				receiver.document.body.innerHTML = '';
			} catch(e) {

				that._error = true;
			}
			receiver.document.body.style.padding = '0px';
			receiver.document.body.style.margin = '0px';

			var child = receiver.document.createElement('iframe');
			child.id = 'child';
			child.name = 'child';
			child.src = that.childUrl;

			child.frameBorder = '0';
			child.frameSpacing = '0';
			child.style.borderStyle = 'none';
			child.style.width = '100%';
			child.style.height = '100%';
			receiver.document.body.appendChild(child);

			that.child = receiver.document.getElementById('child').contentWindow;
			that.receiver = receiver;

			that.packetHandler = new FragmentPacket(that.receiver, that.child, that.childUrl, false, receiveCallback);

			that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();

			that.packetHandler.sendFlag(that.packetHandler.READY, 0);

			that._ready = true;
		};

		that.receiver.onreadystatechange = function() {
			if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
				receiver_onload();
			}
		};

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







		if (Dsq.Utils.ie) {
			if (that.container.clientWidth === 0) {

				var _waitForWidth = function() {
					if (that.container.clientWidth > 0) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					} else {
						window.setTimeout(_waitForWidth, 100);
					}
				};
				_waitForWidth();

				that._once = false;
				that.receiver.onresize = function() {
					if (!that._once) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					}
					that._once = true;
				};
			}
		}

		that.container.appendChild(that.receiver);
	};


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

			that.packetHandler.send();
			that._ready = true;
		};

		var id = PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id();
		var receiverId = 'child_' + id;


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

		that.container.innerHTML += '<iframe ' +
			'src="' + childUrl + '" ' +
			'id="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'name="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'onload="ParentMessenger._receiver_onload_' + receiverId +'();" ' +
			'></iframe>';

		that.receiver = document.getElementById(receiverId).contentWindow;
		that.packetHandler = new PostMessagePacket(that.receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId);
		that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();
	};

	if (typeof window.postMessage == 'function') {
		_createReceiverForPostMessage();
	} else {
		_createReceiverForFragmentPacket();
	}

};

ParentMessenger.prototype.sendMessage = function(message) {
	var that = this;
	if (!this._ready) {

		window.setTimeout(function() { that.sendMessage(message); }, 10);
		return;
	}
	this.packetHandler.send(message);
	return true;
};

Dsq.NewFrames = function(url) {
	this.url = url;
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype.init = function(onFailure) {
	var that = this;

	try {
		this.messenger = new ParentMessenger(this.url, Dsq.jsonData.integration.receiver_url, this.container, this.receive_callback);
	} catch(e) {
		if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
			onFailure();
		}
	}

	if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
		var iId = window.setInterval(function() {
			if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				return;
			}
			if (that.messenger._ready) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
			} else if (that.messenger._error) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				onFailure();
			}
		}, 10);
	}
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype._execute = function(method, args, callback) {
	var that = this;
	if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
		return false;
	}
	JsonRpc.execute(
		function(msg) { that.messenger.sendMessage(msg); },
		method,
		args || [],
		callback);
	return true;
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame = function(container, parent_post_id) {
	var that = this;
	this.container = container;
	this.parent_post_id = parent_post_id;

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

		Dsq.Debug.log('Dsq.ReplyFrame.sendFunc');
		that.messenger.sendMessage(msg);
	};


	var postComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		Dsq.jsonData.posts[response.message.id] = response.message.post_meta;
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key]) {
			Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key] = response.message.user_meta;
		}


		var reply_position = (typeof(disqus_insert_wrt_sort) == 'undefined' 
			? (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reply_position ? -1 : null) 
			: (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? null : -1));
		
		if (response.message.post_meta.approved) {
			Dsq.Post.insert(response.message.post_meta.parent_post_id || reply_position, response.message.id, response.message.post_meta.message);
		}

		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var postComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(response.message, 'Error');
		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onFailure(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var editComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);
		
		message.innerHTML = response.message;
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
	
	var editComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('Sorry, there was an error editing this comment.', 'Edit Error');
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	var getUserByEmail_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var msg = response.message;
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(parent_post_id);

		if (msg.username) {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'login', {
				'username': msg.username,
				'display_name': msg.display_name,
				'avatar_url': msg.avatar_url,
				'verified': msg.verified,
				'email': fields.email.value
			});
		} else {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'register');
		}
	};

	var validateAuth_onSuccess = function(response, auth_choice) {
		Dsq.Templates.postComment(parent_post_id, null, true, auth_choice);
	};

	var validateAuth_onFailure = function(response, auth_choice) {
		var pid = parent_post_id ? '-' + parent_post_id : '';
		var msg = response.message;

		if (auth_choice == 'register') {
			var fields = ['email', 'username', 'password'];

			for (var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
				var field = fields[i];
				var errorDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-' + field + '-errors' + pid);

				if (msg[field]) {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = msg[field];
				} else {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = '';
				}
			}
		} else if (auth_choice == 'login') {
			Dsq.$('dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid).innerHTML = '<p>We couldn\'t log you in. Please verify your login.</p>';
		}
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.receive_callback = JsonRpc.createHandler(sendFunc, {
		'postComment.onSuccess': postComment_onSuccess,
		'postComment.onFailure': postComment_onFailure,
		'editComment.onSuccess': editComment_onSuccess,
		'editComment.onFailure': editComment_onFailure,		
		'getUserByEmail.onSuccess': getUserByEmail_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onSuccess': validateAuth_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onFailure': validateAuth_onFailure,
		'reload': function() { window.location.reload(); }
	});

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=scobleizer' +
		'&t=why_i8217m_disappointed_with_zune_and_latest_ipods' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_default_text) +
		'&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
	if (this.parent_post_id) {
		this.url += '&parent_post=' + this.parent_post_id;
	}
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype = new Dsq.NewFrames(Dsq.ReplyFrame.url);

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.post = function(author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe) {
	this._execute('postComment', [author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.edit = function(post_id, message) {
	this._execute('editComment', [post_id, message]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.setState = function(parent_post_id, depth) {
	this._execute('setState', [parent_post_id, depth]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.getUserByEmail = function(email) {
	this._execute('getUserByEmail', [email]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.validateAuth = function(auth_choice, email, username, password) {
	this._execute('validateAuth', [auth_choice, email, username, password]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.authenticateFacebook = function(session, forum_url) {
	this._execute('authenticateFacebook', [session, forum_url]);
};

	Dsq.Facebook = function() {
	var that = this;

	var handleSessionData = function(session) {

		var forum_url = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;




		if (typeof disqus_facebook_forum != 'undefined') {
			forum_url = disqus_facebook_forum;
		}
		Dsq.frames.reply_0.authenticateFacebook(session, forum_url);
	};

	var onLogin = function() {
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(handleSessionData);
	};

	this.login = function() {
		FB.Connect.requireSession(onLogin, true);
	};
};
Dsq.Facebook = new Dsq.Facebook();


	






Dsq.Themes = {};

Dsq.Themes.narcissus = new function() {
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-form-area';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-textarea-wrapper';



	
	this.header = function() {
		var comments_count, total_posts, num_posts;
		var html = '';
		var missing_perm_tmpl;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.missing_perm) {
			missing_perm_tmpl = Dsq.Templates.missingPermissions();
			if (missing_perm_tmpl) {
				html += '<div class="dsq-missing-permissions">' + missing_perm_tmpl + '</div>';
			}
		}

		total_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.total_posts;
		num_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_posts;

		if (total_posts) {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL(total_posts, num_posts);
		} else {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION(num_posts);
		}

		html += ' \
		<div id="dsq-comments-title"> \
			<h3>' + comments_count + '</h3> \
		</div> \
		';

		html += ' \
		<div class="dsq-options"> \
			<span class="dsq-item-sort">'
				+ Dsq.Strings.SORT_BY + ' \
				<select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);"> \
					<option value="hot" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 4 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.POPULAR_NOW + '</option> \
					<option value="best" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 3 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.BEST_RATING + '</option> \
					<option value="newest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.NEWEST_FIRST + '</option> \
					<option value="oldest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 1 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.OLDEST_FIRST + '</option> \
				</select> \
				&nbsp; \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<span id="dsq-subscribe">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.subscribed
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.UNSUBSCRIBE + '</a>'
						: '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL + '</a>')
				+ '</span> \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-rss" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png" alt="" /> \
				<a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/why_i8217m_disappointed_with_zune_and_latest_ipods/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showModeratorActions(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL + '</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS + '</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



	
	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';

			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>'
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> ' + Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'why_i8217m_disappointed_with_zune_and_latest_ipods'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};
	
	
	this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {


		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
			}
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
				+ '?post_id='    + id
				+ '&vote='        + vote);
		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login('To rate, please log in');
		}
	};

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {

		Dsq.$('dsq-like-pts-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.';

		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;';
		}
	};




	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {
		var approved = response.message.post_meta.approved;

		if (parent_post_id) {
			Dsq.Post.toggleReply(parent_post_id);
		}

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
		
		if (approved) {
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		} else {			
			var unapproved_msg = 'Thanks for posting!\
	 Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.\
			';
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(unapproved_msg, 'Comment awaiting approval', post_id);
		}

		var sharing_results = response.message.sharing_results;
		var sharing_errors = '';
		for (var service in sharing_results) {
			if (sharing_results.hasOwnProperty(service) === true) {
				if (sharing_results[service].error === true) {
					sharing_errors += service + ', ';
				}
			}
		}

		if (sharing_results.facebook && sharing_results.facebook.callback) {
			FB.ensureInit(function() {
				FB.Connect.streamPublish('', sharing_results.facebook.attachment);
			});
		}

		if (sharing_errors !== '') {
			var message = 'Your comment was posted, but there were errors sharing with the following connections: ';
			message += sharing_errors.replace(/,\s$/, '');
			message += '<p><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections" target="_blank">Configure your connections here</a></p>'
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sharing options');
		}

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.postComment_onFailure = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
};




// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/why_i8217m_disappointed_with_zune_and_latest_ipods/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			var retval = parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
			return !isNaN(retval) ? retval : null;
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">75</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/why_i8217m_disappointed_with_zune_and_latest_ipods/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/why_i8217m_disappointed_with_zune_and_latest_ipods/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/why_i8217m_disappointed_with_zune_and_latest_ipods/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on Scobleizer" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:18460614" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'scobleizer',
			't'				: 'why_i8217m_disappointed_with_zune_and_latest_ipods',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/why_i8217m_disappointed_with_zune_and_latest_ipods/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'why_i8217m_disappointed_with_zune_and_latest_ipods'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'why_i8217m_disappointed_with_zune_and_latest_ipods'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'why_i8217m_disappointed_with_zune_and_latest_ipods'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

  this.showModeratorActions = function() {
      if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
          return;
      }

      var html = '<div class="dsq-moderate-options"><table><tr>' +
                 '<td>' + Dsq.Strings.ACTIONS + '</td><td><ul>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleClosed(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.closed ? Dsq.Strings.OPEN_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.CLOSE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleKilled(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.killed ? Dsq.Strings.RESTORE_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.REMOVE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '</ul></td></tr></table></div>' +
              '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate-threads/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
      Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, Dsq.Strings.MODERATE_OPTIONS);
  };

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		  var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		  var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		  Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		  status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		  window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};

  this.toggleClosed = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_closed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };

  this.toggleKilled = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_killed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/18460614/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
		if (that._twitterWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Yahoo = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
		};

		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=500';
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/openid/begin/' + '?url=' + encodeURIComponent(openid_url) + '&username=' + encodeURIComponent(username);
		that._openidWindow = window.open(url, 'openidWindow', popupParams);
		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeConnect = function() {
		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
			return;
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.queued) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Your report has been received. The system will automatically search for new reactions; if any are found, they will be displayed on this comment thread.<br/><br/>Thank&nbsp;you.',
												 'Reported missing reactions');
			return;
		}

		Dsq.Utils.execScript(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/forums/scobleizer/queueurl.js');
	};
};

Dsq.CNN = function() {
	var obj = {};

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
	};

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}





	// TODO: Move Seesmic code outside of the main script.  Don't let this script clobber the global namespace.
	if(typeof seesmic == 'undefined') { var seesmic = {}; }
	seesmic.widget = new function () {
		this.callback = function (data) {
			playerVersion = data.disqusplayer;
		};
	};

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://seesmic.com/version.js?callback=seesmic.widget.callback');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://media.disqus.com/javascript/library/swfobject.js');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	function see_play_video(_videoUri, _add) {
		var swf = !!playerVersion ? playerVersion : 'http://seesmic.com/embeds/StandalonePlayer.swf';

		flashcontentDiv = Dsq.$(_videoUri + '_content');
		previewDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_preview');
		hideDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_hide');
		showDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_show');
		if(_add) {
			// push flash widget
			var so = new SWFObject(swf, 'sotester', '300', '270', '9', '#000000');
			so.addVariable('video', _videoUri);
			so.addParam('allowFullScreen', 'true');
			so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always');
			so.useExpressInstall('swfobject/expressinstall.swf');
			so.write(_videoUri + '_content');

			previewDiv.style.display = 'none';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'block';
			showDiv.style.display = 'none';
		}
		else {
			flashcontentDiv.innerHTML = '';
			previewDiv.style.display = 'block';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'none';
			showDiv.style.display = 'block';
		}
	};





(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postComment_onSuccess', Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess);

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9653396">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653396" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653396" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653396" href="http://www.mcvlog.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dan</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653396" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653396" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes Robert, looks like Apple will have improvements to announce for years to come.<br><br>I am shooting everything in HD, and formatting it that way.  I format the videos for iTunes to 320 x180, effectively letterboxing it.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9653405">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653405" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653405" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653405">Christian</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653405" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653405" class="dsq-comment-message">Hi Robert,<br><br>if you want to see widescreen video on a portable device, there\'s only one choice: the Sony Playstation Portable.<br><br>Besides its gaming core, it\'s the best portable device so far on which I have watched a movie. That screen is fantastic!<br>You really should get one and make your own mind. You will not put it out of your hands. Promised.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9653407">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653407" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653407" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653407" href="http://bryanvillarin.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bryan Villarin</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653407" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653407" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, Robert, I never thought of it that way. Good point! <strong>For once</strong>, I don\'t think you\'re nuts.<br><br>(Kidding!)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9653390">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653390" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653390" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653390" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653390" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653390" class="dsq-comment-message">Christian: Patrick, my son, has one and I agree that it\'s stunning. All it needs is an 80GB drive and it\'d be awesome!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9653377">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653377" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653377" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653377">Jake</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653377" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653377" class="dsq-comment-message">Apple can get HD content online - you see the Quicktime movie trailers all over the place - but, for now, you\'ll never get the movie downloaded.<br><br>Set the model, work the licenses/rights, push the technology along.<br>Improvements will come.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9653403">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653403" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653403" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653403" href="http://myclump.spaces.live.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rohit</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653403" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653403" class="dsq-comment-message">Agreed 100%. As I keep saying in case of audio the difference cannot be made out, but in case of HD..yes its there to see.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9653394">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653394" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653394" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653394">mttsmnw</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653394" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653394" class="dsq-comment-message">My 2 Cents:<br><br>- wait for the iTV to come out. Q1 of 2007, thats nearly half a year ... perhaps they\'ll get higher resolution or widescreen or both then. For now the movies are for iPods and perhaps some iMac users ... so: 4:3 and low res.<br><br>- I guess it sucks to download a full length movie in HDTV ... apple has to wait for even broader broadband to come ...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9653393">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653393" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653393" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653393" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653393" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653393" class="dsq-comment-message">mttsmnw: well, you can get lots of widescreen stuff on Bittorrent. ;-)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9653376">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653376" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653376" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653376" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653376" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653376" class="dsq-comment-message">Not to mention that Steve Jobs OWN PRESENTATION YESTERDAY is up in widescreen format! So, Apple certainly understands how to get widescreen out to you.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9653399">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653399" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653399" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653399">Goebbels</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653399" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653399" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, you are nuts. This is your new Tablet. Yes, people are buying more widescreen TVs (not necessarily HD), but they are doing so because they are cheap, more portable, and trendy. Most people don\'t care.<br><br>Most of the people bitching about HD are the same people who still claim Apple is stupid and failing for having 128K music (despite having sold more than a billion).<br><br>The adoption of HDTVs is still limited. Even as it does increase the average consumer doesn\'t care about the differences. And they do not want to undergo the task of downloading HGD content (people are complaining about the download time of this content).<br><br>Apple will set the market (by doing it well after early starters), make it a success, and improve the service when the technology and consumers are both there. Right now, neither the consumer or the technology is there.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9653388">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653388" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653388" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653388">Goebbels</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653388" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653388" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, back to the Tablet.<br><br>2 years from now you will be still pointing to small anecdotal claims about how important and successful HDTV is, and the rest of the market will be unimpressed or take it for granted... meanwhile they\'ll still wonder what you were raving about with Tablets.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9653389">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653389" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653389" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653389">Goebbels</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653389" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653389" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, and more related to the Tablet: you will act like an aficionado, pro, and snob while still not knowing much. For example, I don\'t know if you want HD or widescreen content. The two are not interchangeable. Apple does offer widescreen content. But 90+% of the video content is not widescreen (TV programming). Yes, Apple streams in widescreen... So? They offer STREAMS of content in VARIOUS resolutions based on your INTERNET CONNECTION. That does not mean that all devices and content they sell should be widescreen. It means they understand this better than you. A quality that frequently bubbles to the service whenever you fall in love with something.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9653398">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653398" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653398" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653398" href="http://www.OnDisruption.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Urlocker</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653398" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653398" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert:<br><br>I am not sure that the small screen or other quality-related issues matter to customers at the start of a disruptive innovation. Most disruptive innovations suffer tremendous deficiencies early on which causes competitors to underestimate the disruptive product\'s strengths.<br><br>*Blackberry had no phone or SMS capabilities when it launched<br>*iPod was Mac only when it launched<br>*iPod had few record company agreements when it launched<br>*Mac had little software when it launched<br>*ING direct has no bank branches<br>*Swatch watches were made of cheap plastic<br><br>But in each case, the disruptor had some unique quality that was so highly valued it overcame the product limitations.<br><br>As the broadcast industry and device companies ponder their video strategy, they may consider what some of iPod/iTune\'s attributes are, in the eyes of consumers and in the business model:<br><br>    * Simple: Single-function device; Not a PC/phone/swiss-army knife etc<br>    * Easy to use<br>    * Users pay for content<br>    * Apple had nothing to lose and the most to gain by cannabilizing the music business.<br><br>More details:<br><a href="http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2006/09/disrupting_tv.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2006/09/d...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653359">Jake</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653359" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree - Apple can post the content in HD. But the model is not quite there.<br><br>TiVo announced their Series 3. 300 hours of SD. 32 hours of HD. Big difference.<br><br>HDTV is here today. The devices are going into homes (a side effect of the real estate boom over the last few years has been the upgrade of appliances including widescreen, HD ready TVs). Broadcast HDTV is available from the networks. The cable companies all have HD channels and the triple play packages are all HD. The content producers - particularly sports which are a huge business - are pushing HD content.<br><br>And, yes, as noted, the BitTorrent Channels seem to be the HD stuff as well.<br><br>The model of getting that distributed point to point, sized on handhelds, and for the right dollars still needs time.<br><br>Remember, yesterday was day 1.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653372" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653372" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653372" class="dsq-comment-message">Goebbels: you don\'t watch the same TV I do. Anything available in HD (which is more and more) is ALWAYS widescreen and almost every major program like Lost, 24, American Idol, etc is available in HD.<br><br>What\'s ironic is that Steve Jobs own presentation yesterday is available in widescreen (albeit not HD) but you can\'t watch that widescreen video on your iPod in the aspect ratio it was filmed at.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653371" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653371" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653371" class="dsq-comment-message">Michael: I agree.<br><br>It just gives Steve Jobs something to announce next year. Heheh.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653384" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653384" class="dsq-comment-message">The Archos 404, by the way, plays full DVD quality video. Not widescreen, but that\'s still better than the iPod. <a href="http://www.archos.com/products/video/archos_404/index.html?country=us&amp;lang=en" rel="nofollow">http://www.archos.com/products/video/archos_404...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653374" href="http://www.tinling.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Aaron Tinling</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653374" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, at least there\'s the Creative Zen W: <a href="http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/one-second-update-creative-zen-w-porno-shot-198556.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/o...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653391">Goebbels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653391" class="dsq-comment-message">"Anything available in HD (which is more and more) is ALWAYS widescreen and almost every major program like Lost, 24, American Idol, etc is available in HD."<br><br>What? I never said that HD is not widescreen. I said throwing around the two terms as if they are the same is not. What do you want: widescreen or HD? Which of the two qualities (high resolution or aspect ratio) are you whining about.<br><br>"Every" major show is a bit suspect. You only name three of the highest budgeted shows ever. As I said, I\'m willing to allow about 10% of the content is available in HD.<br><br>"What’s ironic is that Steve Jobs own presentation yesterday is available in widescreen (albeit not HD) but you can’t watch that widescreen video on your iPod in the aspect ratio it was filmed at."<br><br>Wrong! As I said, you don\'t know what you are talking about. I can watch widescreen video on my iPod in the aspect ratio it was filmed at. The screen is not in that aspect ratio. Just as any standard tv can also view widescreen/letterbox movies.<br><br>Again, you are wrong to proclaim this a major problem. And, two, you have little idea what you are talking about.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653387">Christopher Coulter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653387" class="dsq-comment-message">HDTV on portable devices? Overkill, with zero demand, and really if you want HD, should waltz over to the PSP, but then over there, the storage options are quite narrow. But really, iPod and Zune are not the all, haven\'t you even poked around with the Archos devices? Or the Samsung YM-P1 or all the like? Expand your vision here. The iPod is not really a good portable video player (it\'s audio first, video half as an afterthought), and the Zune is just a me-too Microsoft trainwrecked joke.<br><br>But in industry terms, HD is meant for Home Theatre and HD content is saved for BluRay and HD-DVD next gen. formats. Torrents are all about compressional formats, and that\'s not ever going to mainstream, not legally or economically.<br><br>Rocketbloom over LOST? Nuts? That\'s near clinically insane. ;) LOST Season 3, so so far away, sigh. But 4400 upped for a 4th, and Battlestar and Veronica Mars beating down on Oct. and a new Season of Rome and Kyle XY hitting, with Prison Break on fire, heading towards Utah. And much much more. :)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653402" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653402" class="dsq-comment-message">Christopher: I\'m NOT asking for HDTV on my iPod. I\'m asking for Widescreen.<br><br>Goebbels: &gt;Which of the two qualities (high resolution or aspect ratio) are you whining about.<br><br>In this post? Aspect ratio.<br><br>In other posts where I\'ve complained about the resolution of Apple\'s screens on laptops (they can\'t display HD pixel-for-pixel like some of Dell\'s screens can, for instance)? HD.<br><br>&gt;&gt;Wrong! As I said, you don’t know what you are talking about. I can watch widescreen video on my iPod in the aspect ratio it was filmed at.<br><br>Obviously we have a failure to communicate here. My bad.<br><br>I want to watch a widescreen movie (like Steve Jobs\' keynote) WITHOUT letterboxing! See the Archos or the Sony Play Station portable for an example (thanks Chris again).</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653373">Christopher Coulter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653373" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Which of the two qualities (high resolution or aspect ratio) are you whining about.</i><br><br>Yeah, I was trying to make sense of that too...someone hand me the Scoble to English dictionary. ;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653404" href="http://www.mcdevzone.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mike</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653404" class="dsq-comment-message">The PSP would be the best mobile device around if it had an 80GB hard drive instead of a memory stick. Even a 2GB memory stick can\'t hold many movies.<br><br>The PSP has a beautiful 16:9 screen and it\'s also a great mobile web appliance. Unfortunately it\'s very picky about video formats (although the latest firmware improves that) and it won\'t play videos purchased in iTunes Music Store. Sony\'s new MYLO (is that what they call it?) looks like it\'s going to be interesting. It can play movies &amp; do most of what a PSP does except play games plus it has a keyboard, which will make it even better for web browsing.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653401">Oran</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653401" class="dsq-comment-message">Just wait until the all-touchscreen iPod comes out... an iPod where the entire face of the device is a viewable touchscreen.  There have been rumors about this for months.  I think that would make a pretty nice widescreen display.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653386">Goebbels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653386" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, your bad. Remove all references to HD from this post. Then remove all references to it being impossible to watch video with aspect ratios greater than 4:3 on the iPod. Then, since you\'ve eliminated everything you said, start a new post that says: I\'m one of those weird people who thinks the aspect ratio of the video must match the aspect ratio of the screen; does anyone else feel the same?<br><br>Then, you\'d be accurate. Your point would still be stupid, but at least you\'d have a modicum of accuracy and, hence, maybe some credibility would follow.<br><br>Of course, then the post would just be about those "black strips", and you\'d find some that agree and plenty that disagree.<br><br>It\'s rather silly. My mom actually believes the same silly thing as you do. She will actually only rent panned-and-scanned movies because she thinks she can\'t and/or shouldn\'t watch widescreen on a standard TV, even if the TV screen is 42+ inches.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653375" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653375" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653375" class="dsq-comment-message">Goebbels: No. I won\'t. My HDTV camera shoots in widescreen. Look at my viewfinder. Now, why isn\'t the display the same shape on an iPod as it is on a Sony camcorder.<br><br>These concepts are all interlaced. I understand you\'re trying to be pedantic and perfect in your messaging. But, the point is there. And, if it\'s not, most of my readers read my comments and can see your correction.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653382" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653382" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, what\'s the cheapest HDTV you can get?<br><br>something like $600/700 for a dirt cheap one. probably not highest resolution at that price.<br><br>So for a decent HDTV, it\'s a grand or more.<br><br>Yeah, HD is just going to FLOOD the non-geek homeland at that price point. Um..no, no it isn\'t.<br><br>But you just keep thinking that your geek bubble is indicative of most of the country.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653400" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653400" class="dsq-comment-message">As you can see, the utter failure of the iPod is a tribute to your business acumen.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653385">totoro</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653385" class="dsq-comment-message">I think its simple; Apple doesn\'t need to go widescreen yet, because they haven\'t saturated their market with 4:3 screens yet. The minute a viable widescreen candidate (and no, the PSP isn\'t viable) shows up, Apple can switch, and they will get their huge market fan base to buy new iPods with this feature. Obviously they believe they can go another couple quarters with 4:3 screens, and given their market dominance, do you really think you can second guess them?<br><br>Remember Robert, you are a "edge case" :p<br><br>(I am baffled by Microsoft\'s Zune though-you\'d think they would realize they can\'t just match the iPod, they have to go several steps beyond it...and wifi and "bigger screen" isn\'t going to cause the buzz they need. Notice too how Jobs lowball priced the 30G iPod 2 days before the Zune launch-he must be paying SOME attention :P )</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653380">Christopher Coulter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653380" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Now, Allard is trying to transfer some of the lessons learned creating Xbox to the music field.</i><br><br>The only real lesson: Spend Microsoft\'s money like a richie vapidly-vain drunk on a Platinum Card Strip Club tour...<br><br>Get a blank check from Microsoft. Insert billions, buy way into the hip club, woo and strong-arm content developers with pictures of Ben Franklin, jazz up a small army of blue-eyed \'Village of the Damned\' Evangelists and MVPs, hold Mobius-like junkets all the live long day, suck-face with bloggers that will spill gallons of text for free product, make smack talk the order of the day, \'iPod as Pong\', spin doctor and pitch yourself as David, when you are really just a brain-dead Goliath, with no success in the CE space, that doesn\'t deal in serious debt. Tout the Wifi and Collaborationish features...hand them out like candy to A-List celebrities...more junkets, parties, viral marketing spurts (with creepy cartoon figures), more parties, start and fund some existing Web site fan-bases, hand out MVPs to others, and yet more parties. Lather, rinse, repeat. Did I mention, party?<br><br>It\'s always the same prescription, no matter who the front-man is, Bozo the Clown could follow that recipe.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653358" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653358" class="dsq-comment-message">John: when I travel I visit normal people\'s homes. Even in "poor" Montana where I saw quite a few wide-screen TVs.<br><br>But, let\'s go over it again, shall we? My $4,000 TV comes out to about $120 a month. You think people actually buy these things? Nah, Best Buy signs you up for credit on the spot.<br><br>That comes to $120 a month.<br><br>So, let\'s say you have a family of four. And you go to a movie theater. In Montana movies cost $7. In New York, they are $10 to $12. So, that\'s $28 in tickets (actually $26 cause kids are $6). Add four hot dogs. $4x4=$16. Four Cokes. $4x4=$16. And two bags of popcorn: $3.50x2=$7. That\'s $65.<br><br>So, go to movies twice a month and you can have an HDTV too!<br><br>And as prices come down it pulls in a lot more people (not just geeks, either, Best Buy is seeing strong sales at its oldest stores that aren\'t in Silicon Valley).<br><br>Here\'s a quote from an article about Best Buy in Bloomberg at <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=aF768Urn4TD4&amp;refer=us:" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103...</a><br><br>``Advanced TVs continue to grow triple digits and that\'s the third quarter in a row,\'\' said Mlynek. ``I think that\'ll be reassuring to investors.\'\'</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653379" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653379" class="dsq-comment-message">Totoro: but how did Apple get to this position (you too John)? By always waiting for the market to show up before trying something? Really? Was the market really ready for a GUI computer in 1984? A Laser Printer in 1985? A Newton in 2004?<br><br>So, you\'re saying that it\'s a smart business move to wait until someone else does it first (Archos) and proves there\'s a market before acting?<br><br>Excellent! Now we can start the stories about "Apple is the new Microsoft." And they won\'t be complimentary, let me tell you.<br><br>Steve Jobs didn\'t get to where he was by waiting for the market to be ready. He got to where he is by catering to edge cases like, yes, me.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653378">Christopher Coulter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653378" class="dsq-comment-message">PS - And oh, have a supply chain management logisitical nightmares unheard of in history, and have overheating problems galore, stick to the 3-5% line as if your life depended on it. If any problems or recalls, it\'s the chords fault, really, honest.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653381" href="http://www.OnDisruption.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Urlocker</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653381" class="dsq-comment-message">About Microsoft\'s Zune...<br><br>Apple needs only to add incremental improvements to iPod to continue to dominate the market for now.<br><br>Being five years late, Microsoft must disrupt the market to be successful.<br><br>Of all the attributes of Zune, the wireless song-sharing function is the only possible game-changer. If you watch what people do, they seem to like to share digital things: pictures, emails and songs.<br><br>How easily the Zune (and copyright restrictions) allow for sharing will determine whether it is a standout product or an iPod clone.<br><br>More:<br><a href="http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2006/09/microsofts_zune.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2006/09/m...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653383">MarcosV</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653383" class="dsq-comment-message">I really loved the screen of the Sony PSP. Nicely bright with lots of color.  It\'s a pity that to get full native resolution with avi files you need a hack and a 3rd party application.<br><br>It\'s also a pity those stupid memory stick pro duo cards are so proprietary and expensive.  But, I still prefer to use a PSP for watching movies than any portable DVD player out there.<br><br>A more interesting unit is the Cowan A2.  It only has a 30 GB 1.8" hard drive, but, it has a similar screen to the PSP.  If only it could transfer images from my digital camera a lot faster and had a larger hard drive, it would be the perfect AVI playing and digital image display/storage device for me.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653370" href="http://podslug.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Erik Herz</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653370" class="dsq-comment-message">I bought "The Life Aquatic" from iTunes and played it on my TV. It is widescreen and it looks terrific! Here is how I did it: <a href="http://podslug.com/blog/?p=59" rel="nofollow">http://podslug.com/blog/?p=59</a><br><br>Has anyone else here actually bought a movie and tried it out?<br><br>Erik</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653369">Christopher Coulter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653369" class="dsq-comment-message">I think long-term, HDTV is one thing that will survive the Scoble Kiss of Death (SKD), but price points will have to be in order, and it will take years to commodity out. Anyways, end prog. Recusing myself from the pending \'black strip\' wars. :)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653367" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653367" class="dsq-comment-message">Michael,<br><br>&gt;&gt;How easily the Zune (and copyright restrictions) allow for sharing will determine whether it is a standout product or an iPod clone.<br><br>I agree there and with your other points.<br><br>Christopher,<br><br>Yeah, my hopes aren\'t very high for Microsoft getting much market share here. To tell the truth, I\'m probably going to buy an iPod. Why? Because Apple has the best choice of podcasts of any of these things and because my son has spent about $400 on iTunes music and I wanna remain compatible with that investment.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653362" href="http://www.grokmedia.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brad Kozak</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653362" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert: Ironically, I blogged on this yesterday - and came to the same conclusion you did. What I\'m wondering is why they didn\'t do a full-screen thing, and put in a virtual navigation wheel, with a touchscreen. It would make perfect sense, with the wheel disappearing when not needed, and appearing as a semi-transparent overlay when it is. And why not add Bluetooth for headphones and wireless syncing?<br><br>Looks like this time around, Apple\'s content with being one of the crowd, instead of leading from out in front.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653363" href="http://joergpittermann.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">joergpittermann</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653363" class="dsq-comment-message">Next year it\'s showtime 16:9.<br><br>And Apple, Ebay and many more could have earned millions.<br><br>Anyway, the HDTV in Europe is not ready yet, although Germany had the world championships and flat screens were promoted like crazy, a lot people did not realize that there might be also a HDTV receiver nessary to receiver it\'s content. A lot are still plugging in there old VHS Recorders to the new screen.<br><br>It take another year or so to get HDTV to the masses. And again another year until those also by an Ipod.<br><br>You (and most of the guys here arround including me ;-)) are ahead  schedule... hehehehe<br><br>Although I do not even have a TV because the content is so bad, I do prefer my selected shows from the Internet and a 19" TFT (widescreen). ;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653360">totoro</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653360" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, that just shows HOW much an edge case you are-you are even ahead of Apple\'s schedule :p<br><br>Seriously though, don\'t you already see that in Apple\'s other offerings? The entire switch to Intel used the same ID for every platform. The new Nano is actually a play on the old (very successful) Mini. Only the Shuffle is a completely new design. Apple may indeed be changing their approach.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653361">Mark Alexander</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653361" class="dsq-comment-message">Jobs in one of the post announcement press interviews said that iTV will support true HDTV resolutions but that they are currently contrained by bandwidth.  Both broadband, ie to have a 90 minutes show download in 30 minutes (assuming as Steve did 5 MB/s) and and wireless.  Apple only said that iTV will have 802.11 wireless.  He explicitly did not mention if it will be a,b,g or n.  By the end of 1Q 07, n may be far enough along for Apple to support it.  n will provide up to 200 MB/s local wireless bandwidth.  That bandwidth, by the way, is still too small to stream true HDTV, but it is a lot closer.  As the bandwidth increases the iTV will provide video as high rez as provided to the connected TV.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653356" href="http://www.freespiritparagliding.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653356" class="dsq-comment-message">I would like to buy a video ipod with a bigger 16.9 ratio screen. Even to show people the HD video i shoot while paragliding. Portablility and ease of use are important but the screen size also makes a big difference. After living with a big widescreen HD TV watching regular TV on a 4-3 19 inch screen is disappointing. As the living room screen size improves the portable screen size should improve  also... how baout the new games on the IPOD ? any comments .. according to Seattle Weekly MSFT will make a Zune announcement tomorrow..</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653354" href="http://shokk.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">shokk</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653354" class="dsq-comment-message">Apple\'s gotta leave some candy for Christmas.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653357">Chris</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653357" class="dsq-comment-message">Majority of the videos out now are in 4:3 format, not 16:9. Most music videos and tv shows are displayed in 4:3. My brother has a very nice Widecreen HDTV like 42". I think it\'s a shitty experience searching for channels with HD then having the TV display standard def. Looks like shit. The iPod will go 16:9 when the majority of it\'s users go 16:9.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653366" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653366" class="dsq-comment-message">Chris: just because you don\'t have your channels in HD, doesn\'t mean they aren\'t being done.<br><br>When I lived in Seattle I had a large number of good channels on HD (ABC, CBS, NBC, even PBS was all in HD). But, I just moved down to Half Moon Bay and Comcast hasn\'t yet brought in HD, so I have to get satellite.<br><br>I agree that it sucks when a show is in 4:3, by the way. I find it very hard to watch.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653337">Goebbels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653337" class="dsq-comment-message">"No. I won’t. My HDTV camera shoots in widescreen. Look at my viewfinder. Now, why isn’t the display the same shape on an iPod as it is on a Sony camcorder."<br><br>Why are you continuing to tell me to do silly things (that I\'ve already done)? I know what you are saying, disagree with, and am trying to correct you. Yes, you are saying: viewing windows and screens should match the aspect ratio, and (more significantly), despite a variety of aspect ratios for our current media offerings, that aspect ratio should be 16:9. (Of course, since you think every viewing area should now be 16:9, you are not saying and/or contradicting that the point that the viewing area should match the content with respect to aspect ratio.<br><br>"These concepts are all interlaced."<br><br>Yes, and I disagree with you on most or believe you are wrong on most of the issues. Viewing area aspect ratio does not have to match content ratio. (I\'d much more simply prefer higher pixel densities to match a broad range of resolutions no matter the aspect ratio.<br><br>Secondly, I believe 4:3 is still dominant over 16:9.<br><br>I believe HD is not mainstream enough yet and it\'s not worth pursuing in either a mainstream or a developing market. (And the markets we are talking about are best viewed as both, strategically.)<br><br>I believe other factors like portability, cost, internet connection speeds, storage capacities, and simple acceptance weigh heavily against the directions that you suggest.<br><br>Another concept interlaced in our dialogue is that you are misinformed, trying to pass yourself as the vanguard or possibly knowledgeable about the market, and I am demonstrating the concept that you should be mocked as a fraud who is wrong.<br><br>"But, the point is there."<br><br>Yes, I know. I was aware of it before you could clearly express it in your convoluted, misspoken, misinformed manner. I said I disagree with it, and I\'m still saying it. I\'m also saying you are wrong.<br><br>"I understand you’re trying to be pedantic and perfect in your messaging."<br><br>I thought I was trying to educate you to speak about these topics correctly so you could be comprehensible to your audience.<br><br><br>"And, if it’s not, most of my readers read my comments and can see your correction."<br><br>Again, you insist that you enjoy wallowing in your own ignorance and do not want to improve your knowledge. Fine. You don\'t have to keep telling me. I think it\'s pretty pathetic that you will criticize Apple for not jumping on your bad ideas at the same time you insist that you should remain ignorant and incoherent.<br><br>"but how did Apple get to this position (you too John)? By always waiting for the market to show up before trying something? Really? Was the market really ready for a GUI computer in 1984? A Laser Printer in 1985? A Newton in 2004?"<br><br>Are you suggesting that all of these are successes of just being first? Is that what you are reducing it too? There are numerous "interlaced" factors in each of those success as well, none of them concerned allowing you to be happy with your multi-thousand dollar tv and camera and nonexistent portable device.<br><br>"So, you’re saying that it’s a smart business move to wait until someone else does it first (Archos) and proves there’s a market before acting?"<br><br>No, we are saying your simplistic notion that jumping ahead with respect to one aspect (aspect ratio) and maybe another (HD) are critical and pivotal and timely right now for Apple (or any other company but for some reason (hmm... hit-whoring?) mostly Apple) to succeed and/or continue succeeding is wrong because there are more important issues.<br><br>Are you suggesting that being first is the only way to succeed, or that it guarantees success, or... what?<br><br>"Steve Jobs didn’t get to where he was by waiting for the market to be ready. He got to where he is by catering to edge cases like, yes, me."<br><br>Very little, if any, of Jobs success is due to catering to edge cases. He does things that are fun and creative and profitable... new things that become whole industries and lifestyles: personal computing, educational computing, creative computing with DTP and graphic arts, advanced digital effects and animation, sophisticated (Pixar), personal developments tools and hardware (NeXT), back to his roots, quality family entertainment/media (Pixar/Disney)... I don\'t think he ever said: there\'s an edge case geek that will spend thousands, I want to sell him stuff.<br><br>"Because Apple has the best choice of podcasts of any of these things and because my son has spent about $400 on iTunes music and I wanna remain compatible with that investment."<br><br>See: more insanity. Alleged blog/podcast guru buys iPod because he can\'t get content onto another device without the iTunes Store podcast aggregator despite the ability of most any device to consume the majority audio and video podcasts? Weirdness. Scoble you need neither an iPod or iTunes to access these podcasts. And why would you need to be compatible with your son\'s songs? Even when you make a good decision, it\'s for misinformed, ill-conceived, bad reasons.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653397" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653397" class="dsq-comment-message">&gt;Secondly, I believe 4:3 is still dominant over 16:9.<br><br>When I first bought my first CD player there were only 40 CDs out on the market. Back then I was telling everyone that they should get rid of their record collections and buy CDs too. They eventually did. Just like if we come back in 10 years everything will be widescreen. No biggie. So I have to wait another year to get a widescreen iPod. In the meantime I\'ll whine about it. And you\'ll poke me for whining.<br><br>&gt; I think it’s pretty pathetic that you will criticize Apple for not jumping on your bad ideas at the same time you insist that you should remain ignorant and incoherent.<br><br>I love how you put words in my mouth. But, whatever. I just am not so freaking pedantic as you are.<br><br>&gt;Are you suggesting that all of these are successes of just being first?<br><br>No. But they were evidence that Steve Jobs would buck conventional wisdom and try something new, even though there didn\'t seem to be a market there.<br><br>You seem to be wanting Apple to become Microsoft. Boring. Wait until the market is ready for 16:9. I\'d rather be more aggressive. Get out ahead of the wave one more time and try something new.<br><br>&gt;Very little, if any, of Jobs success is due to catering to edge cases.<br><br>That\'s bullshit. Apple\'s whole business model is based on catering to edge cases. Remember 1977 when Apple started? How many people needed a personal computer back then. Only some weirdo edge cases in Silicon Valley.<br><br>You would have been making fun of them back then, that\'s how edge case they were.<br><br>&gt;And why would you need to be compatible with your son’s songs?<br><br>Maybe I want to listen to his music? In the old days I could have let him borrow my CD\'s. But today his music is locked up in his iTunes (cause he buys a lot of music off of iTunes) thanks to Apple\'s DRM.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653351">Goebbels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653351" class="dsq-comment-message">"Back then I was telling everyone that they should get rid of their record collections and buy CDs too. They eventually did. Just like if we come back in 10 years everything will be widescreen."<br><br>Yes, the transition took ten years, and yes, this one will take just as long, if not longer. So why is your point that wr should be disappointed today because it\'s not ten years from now?<br><br>"I love how you put words in my mouth. But, whatever. I just am not so freaking pedantic as you are."<br><br>You won\'t acknowledge the numerous corrections: you are wallowing in your own ignorance.<br><br>And I\'m not being pedantic, I\'m being accurate. I "understand" your argument however badly you express it, and you can continue to express it poorly if you like. I\'ll choose accuracy and intelligence over vague, misinformed arguments.<br><br>"No. But they were evidence that Steve Jobs would buck conventional wisdom and try something new, even though there didn’t seem to be a market there."<br><br>Part of my point is this is YOUR perspective. You think it was unconventional wisdom, you think there wasn\'t a market. Jobs and others didn\'t. You think there is a need NOW for this. I don\'t. Vaguely extrapolating your perspective on Jobs\' past does nothing to convince me of your perspective.<br><br>"You seem to be wanting Apple to become Microsoft. Boring. Wait until the market is ready for 16:9. I’d rather be more aggressive. Get out ahead of the wave one more time and try something new."<br><br>Not in the least. Agrressive isn\'t necessarily interesting, often it\'s obvious. Often it\'s what Microsoft does: throw everything in the XBox, make Tablets everyone wants one, make Origamis, everyone wants one, make phones, everyone wants one, make an iPod ripoff and throw everything at it, everyone wants one. That\'s boring, unimaginative, and uninteresting. It\'s "Bigger is better" writ large. It\'s stupid. I want Apple to be smart, considered, focused on the consumer, the competition, its core... I want a lot of things. None of which has to do with them delivering a large aspect ratio in a portable device NOW.<br><br>I also have full confidence that Apple is ahead of the wave right now, but the marketplace isn\'t ready.<br><br>"That’s bullshit. Apple’s whole business model is based on catering to edge cases. Remember 1977 when Apple started? How many people needed a personal computer back then. Only some weirdo edge cases in Silicon Valley. "<br><br>So? Again, your perspective. Woz and Jobs thought: enough people want this to make us happy. It makes us happy.<br><br>Nothing in their motivation said to them: whatever edge cases want to do, we want to do.<br><br>"You would have been making fun of them back then, that’s how edge case they were."<br><br>No, Scoble. You really don\'t get me. I wwould respect a guy to no end that could convince a company he could build a game in a weekend and get his friend to do it for him while he slacked off, build a multi-million dollar company that revolutionized how employees behave in the workplace/space from a garage with a few circuits strapped to plywood.<br><br>It\'s people like you who think they are edge cases because they whine at the fringes about things they have no clue about... their knowledge is limited to what they are able to buy, and they buy the silly toys so they can feel ahead of people. Those are the people I make fun of.<br><br>"Maybe I want to listen to his music? In the old days I could have let him borrow my CD’s. But today his music is locked up in his iTunes (cause he buys a lot of music off of iTunes) thanks to Apple’s DRM."<br><br>And you can share over the network, burn disks, or simply circumvent the DRM... but that wasn\'t my major point: whether or not you want to sample your son\'s music with him (once or twice or when you are with him), can\'t he use the iPod or lone it to you? Moreover, I was questioning how much of an investment this truly was: do you really want to listen to his music repeatedly as if it was your own? If so, how much of it? And how does a hundred bucks or so rate to someone who has a several thousand dollar camera, a several thousand dollar TV, a new house in Half Moon Bay, and wants a luxury nonexistent HD-enable widescreen personal media device as a major investment pinning him down? I mean, come on, seriously... is it the DRM or your silly notions that "lock" you into the iPod.<br><br>I also note you completely avoided my point about the podcasts: are you acknowledging you need iTunes to help you get podcasts on your iPod? Sad.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653353">Gunther Schmidl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653353" class="dsq-comment-message">The Archos AV500 and AV700 are both widescreen.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653355" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653355" class="dsq-comment-message">&gt;I also note you completely avoided my point about the podcasts: are you acknowledging you need iTunes to help you get podcasts on your iPod?<br><br>No, again, you are being pedantic with my words. I said iTunes handled Podcasts a lot better than any other service I\'ve used. We\'ll see tomorrow if Zune makes that better.<br><br>&gt;I wwould respect a guy to no end that could convince a company he could build a game in a weekend and get his friend to do it for him while he slacked off, build a multi-million dollar company that revolutionized how employees behave in the workplace/space from a garage with a few circuits strapped to plywood.<br><br>Steve Jobs did all that in 1977? Really? Damn, now you\'re rewritting Silicon Valley history.<br><br>My point was that they were edge cases. You just proved that you would have treated them as such until they got rich. Fine. I understand. You really don\'t care about new ideas, you just care about kissing the feet of people who made a big business. Got it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653364" class="dsq-comment-message">"No, again, you are being pedantic with my words. I said iTunes handled Podcasts a lot better than any other service I’ve used. We’ll see tomorrow if Zune makes that better."<br><br>I was being sarcastic, not pedantic. Being pedantic would be saying: "No, you didn\'t say it handled Podcasts best, you said it had the best choice of podcasts suggesting that you were referring to the quanity and quality of content and the inability to get it otherwise.<br><br>"Steve Jobs did all that in 1977? Really? Damn, now you’re rewritting Silicon Valley history."<br><br>Now, you are being pedantic: I can\'t bring a brief and hperbolistic overview of some of Jobs\' successes and exploits because you specifically referred to 1977? Get a life. You can whip out the lame "pedantic" card all you want, but try not to be a hypocrite about it.<br><br>"My point was that they were edge cases."<br><br>No, your point was that serving edge cases was a way to succeed. I have no qualms with the notion that edge cases can be successful, I do have a problem with the notion that not appealling to edge cases is a problem for a business.<br><br>"You just proved that you would have treated them as such until they got rich."<br><br>Again, you don\'t get me. I\'m quite certain I would have liked them much better before they were rich. Woz is a tool in his own world and Jobs is unapproachable. I treat people in many different ways, but money is not a factor: I treat both rich and poor people well and like shit.<br><br>"You really don’t care about new ideas, you just care about kissing the feet of people who made a big business. Got it."<br><br>"Your" idea is NOT new. That\'s part of my point. It\'s not significant is another part of my point. Another part is that there are many more significant and interesting factors than aspect ratio.<br><br>Get it? Doubt it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653365" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653365" href="http://mickeleh.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Markman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653365" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, you\'re not nuts. But you are impatient. We\'re in the middle of a transition from 4:3 to 16:9 for TV (probably at the tipping point or close to it). Two points: 1) The ATSC standards for HDTV were published ten years ago. It\'s taken that long to get as far as we have. Maybe 10% of US TVs will be HD at the end of this year.  But suddenly, as soon as any of us crosses over and buys a wide screen TV we demand widescreen content. period. 2) the iPod screen is not just for videos and movies. What about photos? Most digital cameras shoot in 4:3. Film cameras vary, but rarely go widescreen. The majority of the world\'s graphics are not widescreen. Back in July, you posted about GalleryPlayer\'s service which provided art for HDTVs. Most of that art gets <a href="http://mickeleh.blogspot.com/2006/07/art-on-tv-not-what-artist-had-in-mind.html" rel="nofollow">cropped badly</a> because it wasn\'t created in the widescreen format. 4:3 screens are not evil. They\'re just an endangered species. By all means keep pressing for wide. And do your part to produce in HDTV 16:9. We\'ll get there--even Apple.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653392">LayZ</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653392" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653392" class="dsq-comment-message">Can we have other examples of you visiting "normal people" besides Montana? What, do you go around like that guy selling Campbell\'s Soup and knocking on people\'s door saying "HI, I\'m Robert Scoble and would like to visit you to see what type of TV you have".<br><br>So, please, give us examples of "normal people" you visit when you travel.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653350" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653350" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653350" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653350" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653350" class="dsq-comment-message">LayZ: no. Why don\'t you follow me around on a trip?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653349" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653349" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653349" href="http://www.invisiblecitizen.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Adam</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653349" class="dsq-comment-message">How about the simplest reason as to no widescreen is this way in 2008 they can have a big to do about offering the 160 gb widescreen ipod that is as thin as the nano.  Technology today is like an underclocked processor it can go faster, but than how can u slowly churn out slightly faster ones at higher prices.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653352" href="http://www.marius.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Marius</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653352" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653352" class="dsq-comment-message">Couldn\'t agree more - I blogged <a href="http://www.marius.org/2006/09/12/apple_what_are_they_thinking.php" rel="nofollow">very similar thoughts</a> yesterday.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653406" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653406" href="http://technovia.typepad.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ian Betteridge</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653406" class="dsq-comment-message">There are multiple problems that Apple faces with HD, most of which boil down to cost. The majority of films haven\'t been filmed as HD-digital (for the obvious reason that it didn\'t exist!) and transferring 35mm film prints to HD through telecine is ferociously expensive. Secondly, boosting to HD or close to HD quality would triple Apple\'s already vast bandwidth bill.<br><br>But more importantly, demanding HD quality is a classic case of jumping AHEAD of the technology curve. You forget, Robert, that you\'re not a typical family in the US, let alone worldwide. When you say "Do you have any clue how bad that looks on a good 60-inch 16:9 widescreen HDTV?" you\'re betraying that - what do you think the market penetration of 60in HDTV\'s actually is?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653346">dmt</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653346" class="dsq-comment-message">I had to write something because I can\'t believe everyone takes Steve\'s words in a press release as fact. The music videos on the store have been upsized to 640x480. That is what he demoed. If you look at the movies most (if not all.. I couldn\'t find one that wasn\'t) are widescreen. I even bought Hitchiker\'s to check it out. It\'s 640x272. Which yes is a lower than DVD resolution. But it is a 1:2.35 aspect ratio. That\'s widescreen. That\'s most likely the ratio the store bought DVD is in even.<br><br>As for HD content, yes it\'s the new thing, and yes I have an HD tv, but we\'re not going to see a large amount of content for it until the market is much more penetrated than it is right now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653347" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653347" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653347" href="http://mickeleh.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Markman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653347" class="dsq-comment-message">Product design is always about trade-offs. I love the IKEA motto--the first thing we design is the price. Lots of testimony above to why going HD end-to-end for downloadable content would price a product out of the sweet spot in the market.<br><br>True, things are tipping to HD for new TVs. But not everybody is buying new TVs this year.<br><br>I recently visited some friends and their neigbors in North Hollywood. They work in the film &amp; TV business. They have old, old TVs. And upgrading the TV is not very high on their priorities. Shocking. Statistically useless sample, but I was, nevertheless, surprised to see it.<br><br>BTW, Robert... what\'s the path in your house to get HD video from a computer drive to your big Sony? Are you seeing any QoS issues? audio or video glitches?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653345" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653345" href="http://www.adambowie.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Adam Bowie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653345" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s worth noting that widescreen and HD really aren\'t the same thing. In the UK, I\'ve had a widescreen TV for over ten years now, and HD was only launched this year. I\'d say that for at least five years now, all major TV purchases have been widescreen here, and it\'s a similar picture across the rest of Europe. And before I even got a DVD player, I was only buying VHS movies in widescreen format.<br><br>As a result, I would never buy a device at the moment that didn\'t offer widescreen. It\'s just not future-proof. For me it\'d be like buying a VCR.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653344">Larry</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653344" class="dsq-comment-message">The Police - Ghost in the Machine<br>Record album - I paid $7<br>Tape - I paid $9<br>CD - I paid $15<br>MP3 - $1 per song<br><br>Why do we have to pay over and over for the exact same content? I\'m sure they want us to do the same thing with movies. You pay for the theather, the VHS, the DVD, the MP4, and whatever else they can come up with.<br><br>I\'m sure they love all the money, but sorry, I\'m not playing.<br><br>As for how it will play out in the future, would you rather own iTunes with a crappy 640x480 platform with crappy little ipod screens or the Xbox Live platform with high definition devices that can play high definition movies, a broadband infrastructure, and a possible portable device coming later?"<br><br>I\'d take Xbox Live.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653343" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653343" href="http://dan100.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dan G</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653343" class="dsq-comment-message">As Adam aais in #62 there seems to be a huge amount of confusion over HDTV, widescreen etc.<br><br>Widescreen TV is in a 16:9 format, rather than the old 4:3. However, it still uses the same number of "lines" as the old system, 500 for NTSC and 600 for PAL iirc.<br><br>Films are usually filmed in super-widescreen (2.35:1); any major US tv show is filmed in 16:9. In Europe, 16:9 is now standard for broadcast (and there are very few 4:3 TVs left, either for sale or in people\'s homes).<br><br>HDTV refers to upping the number of "lines", either to 720 or, in the highest standard, 1080. Very little is broadcast in this format, a few satellite and cable channles I believe (either side of the pond). You\'ll be able to buy HD content on Blu Ray or HD-DVD soon, but afaik there\'s few players and fewer discs available at the moment.<br><br>DVDs are 720x480. If the content on the DVD is widescreen, e.g. a film, the 720 remains the same but the 480 gets cut down to whatever is required. It still looks just fine on a large screen though, as you\'ve all no doubt witnessed.<br><br>Job\'s 640x480 looks good on TVs. It will remain 640 in width but will get cut down in height for widescreen content, which all their content on iTunes 7 will be delivered in (I think someone above worked out to be 640x275). You\'d be hard-pressed to tell this apart from a DVD.<br><br>Finally, I expect the iTV will be fully capable of supporting HDTV (i.e. 720+ lines), but as stated HDTV content has monster storage requirements. You won\'t be able to stream it wirelessly whatever the standard used (MCEs struggle unless their practically in line-of-sight with the wireless router; Apple\'s kit will be no different). If they\'re wired via Ethernet though, it won\'t be a problem. It\'ll take a night to download the movies though ;-).<br><br>Make no mistake though, HDTV will become standard, just as colour did over BW, and 16:9 and digital have replaced analouge 4:3 transmission in Europe.<br>Things progress!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653342" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653342" href="http://www.mikeysgblog.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Gannotti</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653342" class="dsq-comment-message">Totally agree with you on this one Robert. I just read an article that said more than 50% of all TVs sold last year were High Def. Why the portables arent doing a wide screen format makes no sense to me either</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653340">Goebbels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653340" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653340" class="dsq-comment-message">Michael, 50% of TVs sold is no where near 50% of all TVs though. And the TVs have upped the anti because the market had essentially gone stagnant and offering HD is easy, obvious, and relatively cheap. It\'s similar to cellphones having video cameras and disc storage and more application features. It has less to do with demand and more to do with the fact that these features can be thrown in for little cost to boost demand where little exists. A portable device is a whole different story: tons of demand in a nascent market, other areas which will also advance with technology (memory size, connectivity, screens, size, add-ons), the needs of a new and fickle market, etc...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653339" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653339">jsaltz</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653339" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653339" class="dsq-comment-message">Starting from November 14, those lame apple fanboys will gradually become an extinct species. And their lame whitey ipod thing (an abomination) will be used as an expensive paperweight. \'nuff said.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653336" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653336" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653336" href="http://tomrafteryit.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tom Raftery</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653336" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>did I miss something? I didn\'t see anywhere a mention that the Zune will allow you to subscribe to podcasts (audio or video).<br><br>Consuming podcasts is all I use my iPod for.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653348" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653348" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653348">mike</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653348" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653348" class="dsq-comment-message">Hm... no one talking about Zune.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653341" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653341" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653341">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653341" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653341" class="dsq-comment-message">I love how scoble thinks he\'s Apple\'s primary target consumer.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9653338" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9653338" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9653338" href="http://www.zunescene.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">zune</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653338" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653338" class="dsq-comment-message">I disagree scoobie doo.  The screens are so small it makes no difference what the aspect ratio is.  If you want a wider aspect ratio put some black tape on the top and bottom of the screen.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653409">hazydave</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653409" class="dsq-comment-message">Dan G is confused about DVD widescreen: DVD is always 720x480 (720x576 PAL), and by "widescreen" we mean 16:9 vs. 4:3... those are the only two actual resolutions. And it\'s really just a matter of interpretation; a flag in file indicated 16:9 vs. 4:3 to the player.<br><br>DV camcorders generally offer the same option: you can set the camera to 16:9 or 4:3... different cameras deliver the video in different ways, but what goes on tape is always 720x480 NTSC.<br><br>Obviously, one you have digital screens at lower resolutions, it\'s not such a great idea to have non-square pixels on-screen; the resizing can be pretty obvious. Apple\'s new videos go all the way to 640 pixels, which of course is an easy bilinear scaling to deliver 320 pixels across (well, sure, it it\'s widescreen, in this case you\'d resize in both dimensions). A larger screen will need more pixels, and a better resizing algorithm.<br><br>My iPod was stolen last July, and I haven\'t replaced it yet. I am absolutely waiting for a player that can handle widescreen. I may wait to see an Apple offering; if not, there are numerous others out there. Nothing quite as slick as the online mockups of the "screen-only" iPod. Then again, Apple doesn\'t make anything that slick, either... yet.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653408">hazydave</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653408" class="dsq-comment-message">zune... the small screen is exactly why aspect ratio does matter. Most of what I watch, either from DVD or my own videos, is widescreen. Playing a 16:9 video on a 4:3 screen, I\'m blacking out 25% of the pixels I paid for. Given the already-too-small/lowres screens out there on the pocket players, this is unacceptable. Add just the extra pixels necessary to extend your 4:3 to 16:9, and you get full use on widescreen material, and just what you have today on 4:3 (most existing 16:9 PMPs have higher resolutions screens, but also in the 4"-4.25" range or better).</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653411">Mike</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653411" class="dsq-comment-message">Why not check out some of Archos\' products? Not very many people have mentioned them. Their PVPs have 4 to 4.3" screens, 16:9 screen, excellant video quality, a removable battery, one has a kickstand(604), you can record music and video with their dock, and they are releasing a wi-fi touchscreen version soon.<br><br>I would like to see the ipod catch up to some of their competitors by releasing a "true video" player, but their are much better options out right now than the ipod. The ipod is a great MP3 player but it has a long way to go before it dominates the market in anything else.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653410">Mike</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653410" class="dsq-comment-message">Why not check out some of Archos\' products? Not very many people have mentioned them. Their PVPs have 4 to 4.3" screens, 16:9 screen, excellant video quality, a removable battery, one has a kickstand(604), you can record music and video with their dock, and they are releasing a wi-fi touchscreen version soon. <a href="http://www.archos.com" rel="nofollow">www.archos.com</a><br><br>I would like to see the ipod catch up to some of their competitors by releasing a "true video" player, but their are much better options out right now than the ipod. The ipod is a great MP3 player but it has a long way to go before it dominates the market in anything else.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9653412">Gman</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9653412" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9653412" class="dsq-comment-message">I argee with Mike, I just bought the 504 16:9 version of the Archos player. The screen is killer, scanning through pics is very fast, it basically is a PVR on the go, docking station allows you to output via componet video so you can at least have DVD quality playback when your on the road etc... I wish I would have gotten the 160 gig version.  Great device but a tad expensive, but it is very versitile!!  I love iPods but went this route because of the flexiblity of the device.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
';

(function() {
	
	





Dsq.Debug.profile(function() {
	if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page == 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.is_initial_load) {
		Dsq.container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.header() + Dsq.container.innerHTML + Dsq.Templates.footer();
	}
	Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML = Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
}); // Dsq.Debug.Profile

// HACK: Resetting cache because we're done with.
Dsq.Utils.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = null;


	
	
	var dsq_styleEl = document.getElementById(disqus_container_id);
	var dsq_anchorEl = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
	
	Dsq.Thread.fc = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, 'color');
	if(dsq_anchorEl) { Dsq.Thread.ac = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_anchorEl, 'color'); }
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, (Dsq.Utils.ie || window.opera ? 'fontFamily' : 'font-family'));
	// For Safari / Opera: strip quotes.
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Thread.ff.replace(/['"]/g, '');
	Dsq.Thread.fc = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.fc);
	Dsq.Thread.ac = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ac);
	Dsq.Thread.ff = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ff);

	
	
	
	if(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer)) {
		// TODO: Check to see if theme uses postmessage.
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.textareaContainer));
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].init(function() {
				// Use fallback iframe
				Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer).innerHTML = '';
				var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer), null, {theme: theme});
				// if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
			});
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

	
	if(document.location.hash != '') {
		document.location.hash = document.location.hash.substring(1);
	}

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

	
	if(document.location.search != '' && location.hash != '#disqus_thread') {
		var reply_id = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams().dsq;
		if(reply_id) { document.location.hash = 'comment-' + reply_id; }
	}

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=scobleizer&t=why_i8217m_disappointed_with_zune_and_latest_ipods&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	



	window.ExecuteWhen = (function () {
	var obj = {}
	
	// Private
	var running = false;
	var timer = null;
	var pending = [];
	var startTimer = function() {
		running = true;
		timer = setInterval(obj.heartBeat, 100);
	};
	var stopTimer = function() {
		running = false;
		clearInterval(timer);
	};
	
	// Public
	obj.add = function (condition, code) {
		pending.push([condition,code]);
		this.heartBeat(); //!
		if (!running) {
			startTimer();
		}
	};
	obj.heartBeat = function() {
		if (!pending.length) {
			stopTimer();
		}
		var newPending = [];
		for (var i=0; i<pending.length; i++) {
			var cond = pending[i][0];
			var code = pending[i][1];
			// FIXME: if cond or code throw an error, they never get removed from pending
			if (cond()){
				code();
			}
			else {
				newPending.push([cond, code]);
			}
		}
		pending = newPending;
	};
	return obj;
})();

// also used in embed_thread.js:
window.fbIsReady = function () {return window.FB && FB.init;};
// NOTE: This script gets executed again without threadEl
//       set when we are loaded again as the fbc_receiver.
//       In this case, we don't need the hidden container.

if(!window.FB || !FB.init) {
	if(window.Dsq && Dsq.container) {
		// container is not present when init.js is loaded from an xd-receiver iframe; in this case,
		// we don't need the FB_HiddenContainer anyway.
		var fbDiv = document.createElement('div');
		fbDiv.id = "FB_HiddenContainer";	// Required or else FeatureLoader will execute a document.write.
		fbDiv.style.position = 'absolute';	// This is intentionally not setting display to none as this breaks
		fbDiv.style.top = '-10000px';		// Flash in Safari.
		fbDiv.style.left = '-10000px';
		fbDiv.style.width = '0px';
		fbDiv.style.height = '0px';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = 'faaf467d0f47abde553c3b8e0e1b3570';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

			FB.init(facebook_api_key, window.facebookXdReceiverPath || null,
				{fetchSignedPublicSessionData: true});
		});
}


	


if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

// Global event handler for narcissus.
if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
	var g = Dsq.Utils.ie ? document : window;
	Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(g, 'keydown', function(event) {
		// Handle "enter" key on input for post box.
		if ((event.keyCode || event.which) == 13) {
			var target = Dsq.Utils.ie ? event.srcElement : event.target;
			// For Safari bug, detect text node.
			if (target.nodeType == 3) {
				target = target.parentNode;
			}

			if (target.nodeName == 'INPUT' &&
				target.parentNode.className == 'dsq-input-wrapper') {
				var postId = Dsq.Utils.extractId(target);
				Dsq.Templates.postComment(postId, this, false);
			}
		}
	});
}

})();




