Author: John Herrman

Have you ever woken up one morning, rolled over to an empty bed and wondered what went wrong? Well, maybe you should ask your phone.

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Happy almost Valentine’s Day, Gizmodo!

Bad Valentine is our own special take on the beauty—and awkwardness—of geek love.

All it takes is a display of repetitive stupidity to make an animal endearing. See: Dogs chasing laser pointers; cats swatting at bugs through glass; and this here praying mantis, misunderstanding the modern cursor metaphor. Stupid mantis! (I love you.)

A very special pun thanks to Slyd3z

Skyfire makes one of the best browsers for Windows Mobile, a fully Flash compatible app that draws on Skyfire’s server-side compression to make browsing bearable on slower connections. Today, they’ve announced that they’ve gobbled up kolbysoft, the company that makes alternative Android browser Steel. Sounds promising, right? Skyfire’s CEO feels the same way:

By adding kolbysoft’s talent to Skyfire, we’ll be able to fuse the best of Skyfire’s famed cloud-computing multimedia capabilities with the Webkit browser movement to create a better hybrid model for Android. Steel has been the most acclaimed browser in the Android Marketplace, adding features atop Webkit. Together, we’ll be able to do so much more.

So Skyfire is coming to Android, albeit running atop the WebKit rendering engine, like Google’s default browser. No release date or further software details have been announced yet, but this is fantastic news for a platform that could use some fresh browser blood. [Skyfire]

TiVo’s leaked product manuals and product shortages have had us expecting something new from the company for weeks now. Today, invites went out for a March 2nd launch event, and if you trust TiVo, it’s a big one.

We’ve been hearing whispers that TiVo has a shakeup coming to their hardware line since last year, and with the recent disappearance of the TiVo HD from the company’s website, an announcement seemed all but inevitable. But here’s the thing: a few weeks ago, a customer who ordered a TiVo HD found a manual for a different product tucked away with his DVR. It was called the TiVo Premiere, and aside from a few differences in ports, it was just like the HD. So assuming the Premiere is coming, what is TiVo talking about? Surely a slightly cheaper, unnoticeably reconfigured TiVo HD isn’t what TiVo is hyping here. I mean, it couldn’t be, right?

Whatever it is, we’ll be there.

Preemptive apologies to those of you who read Gizmodo to get away from work: Sorry! Now pay attention: The next version of Office for Mac is on its way, and we’ve got a sneak peak.

There’s been a funny disconnect over the years between Office for Mac and Office for PC, which staggered release dates and differing feature sets between the two. To an extent, Office 2011 for Mac brings the platforms back in sync. Here’s what to expect:

• Ribbons!: The ribbon interface, which took over Office on Windows in v.2007 and found its way into some of Windows 7’s default apps, like Paint, has finally made the jump to Mac. Luckily, Microsoft opted for a native look, building the new ribbons out of familiar interface elements and keeping the aesthetic sufficiently Mac-like. It’s a conceptual conversion, so people who jump between PCs and Macs don’t get confused.

• Sharing!: Office 2011 lets you jump into documents with Windows Office users, and edit them at the same time—it’ll lock a specific paragraph while you’re working on it, but allow your collaborator to edit the rest of the document. It’s also highly integrated with the Office Online suite, which lets you back up and edit your documents in the cloud. Collaboration is the new non-collaboration! (?)

• Outlook!: Mac users will finally get Outlook. No, not Entourage—real, actual Outlook, like Microsoft promised back in August. Salient features include easy .PST file importing, Time Machine and Spotlight support, and, well, it’s Outlook, so you know what you’re getting into.

The new suite isn’t set for release until the holiday season this year, though we should be able to get a (much) closer look at it over the summer. Desk drone Apple fanboys, I would like to wish you a merry Christmas.

Introducing Office for Mac 2011: The Quintessential Teammate

Next version to deliver on top community requests: better tools to work together and improved compatibility.

SAN FRANCISCO – Feb. 11, 2010 – You, the Mac community, have a voice – and at the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU), we listen. Our charter for more than two decades has been to use your feedback to build the best productivity suite on the Mac. Recently you’ve asked for better ways to work with colleagues and friends anywhere, anytime, across platforms. So today at Macworld 2010, we are answering with details on how you can create and share your ideas using Office for Mac 2011, the next version of the leading productivity suite on the Mac. The suite has new connections to Microsoft services so you can work together more effectively, an updated user interface making tasks easier, and essential compatibility to ensure your documents look the way you made them when shared.

“Together with your team – officemates, family or classmates – you are part of the community that helps shape each version of Office for Mac,” said Eric Wilfrid, MacBU general manager at Microsoft Corp. “You’ve told us that working together across platforms is a priority to you and that’s why we are making Office for Mac 2011 the best, most compatible productivity suite on the Mac.”

New Co-Authoring Tools and Office Web Apps

The new co-authoring tools in Office 2011 give you and your teammates the ability to work on a file from Word, PowerPoint or Excel1 from different locations, brainstorm ideas, and stay on the same page regardless of time, geography or platform. Co-authoring improves the processes of working together, removing the pain and frustration of multiple versions, lost edits, or even trying to set a time for the group to meet. With this new feature you can keep track of your team with the Presence Everywhere feature that gives real-time status updates on who is working on the document directly in the application.

Office 2011 also delivers a connection to Microsoft Office Web Apps from the application, giving you a simple way to access and share Office documents from any machine with an Internet connection. Similar to the experience in Microsoft Office 2010 for PC users, the Office Web Apps make it easy to get your work done virtually anywhere. These days work doesn’t stop at your desktop. You need to stay productive with access to your information no matter where you are, without worrying about whether or not you e-mailed a crucial file to yourself. Currently in beta, Office Web Apps are available to both home and business users (across platforms) and allow documents to be stored via your Windows Live ID account or on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies.

New User Interface Design: Office for Mac Ribbon

Another big addition to the Office 2011 suite is a ribbon that’s at the core of our next-generation Office for Mac user experiences. We took your feedback and haven’t completely rearranged what you know and love: the new design is an evolution of the Office 2008 Elements Gallery and uses the classic Mac menu and Standard Toolbar giving you the best of both worlds. You can even collapse the ribbon and the Toolbar for more screen space or for the more advanced users who rely on keyboard shortcuts. Together these tools make it easy to find and discover new and frequently used commands. In fact, more than 80 percent2 of the most used features live in the default view of our new user experience so you don’t have to waste time finding the tool you need. Built using the latest Mac OS X technologies, the ribbon delivers a modern and fluid experience and also gives you a more consistent experience across platforms, which is key to productivity as 75 percent of Mac users also use a PC.3

New: Outlook for Mac Supports .PST Import

Along with the updated user interface and quick access to the Office Web Apps, the MacBU announced last August that Outlook for Mac is coming to Office 2011, replacing Entourage. Outlook for Mac is a new application that leverages the Exchange Web Services protocol and is being built using Cocoa, allowing for improved integration with the Mac OS. Today we are also announcing that Outlook for Mac will import .PST files from Outlook for Windows – a top customer request. In addition, as announced last year, Outlook for Mac features a reliable, high-speed, file-based database with Spotlight search and back-up support from Time Machine. Outlook for Mac also provides Information Rights Management to help prevent sensitive information from being distributed to or read by people who do not have your permission to access the content. Outlook for Mac provides an integrated solution for managing your time and information and, when it is used in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server, you benefit from increased collaboration capabilities and security enhancements.

Office for Mac 2011 will be available later this year. For updates on all things Office for Mac, follow the team on Twitter (@OfficeforMac) and on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Office-For-Mac/272026096667).

It’s no shock to see that with unglamorous but vital products like Windows and Office, Microsoft is basically printing money. But where’s the Xbox? The Zune? Windows Mobile? Bing? Oh, they’re there. You just have to look a little closer.

Microsoft’s most visible products that aren’t Windows and Office fall under two divisions: Entertainment and Devices, and Online Services. Xbox, Zune (both services and devices), cellphone software and to some extend Media Center all fall under E&D, which has been skipping from minor profit to minor loss for years. Online services, like Bing and Hotmail, have a more consistent track record, steadily bleeding money from the company month after month, with only the slightest hints of stopping.

Granted, Silicon Alley Insider‘s chart only covers of Operating Profit, so it doesn’t reflect how much revenue each division accounts for, or in a broader sense, how important and large each of these products is within Microsoft. (you can obviously assume that, even if its division isn’t making much money, the Xbox is considered a major product.) But still, it’s hard not to see a trend: exciting, risky products—some of the ones we spend the most time talking about—don’t make money. [SAI]

$1 TV shows, down from $2: sounds like a great plan, but is it real? The FT seems to think so, claiming that the changes will hit the iTunes store at the end of April, corresponding with the iPad launch.

Apple’s current pricing scheme puts most SD TV content at $2 an episode, with HD content coming at a $1 premium. The new plan would likely just move the pricing levels down by a dollar and be done with it. (It would also go a long way to expanding Apple’s vision of a digital media dysutopia: In the future, man will feed iTunes one (1) dollar, for which he will be granted a single unit of Apple-Approved Digital entertainment. </scifi>)

But the FT doesn’t stop there: They also claim that Apple is still actively pursuing a $30 “best of TV” subscription service, which would roll selected content into a bundle, for which users would pay a monthly fee, and that Apple is being careful to avoid linking the Apple TV to discussions about either proposal, because the prospect of people watching downloaded TV on their actual televisions is apparently terrifying to content providers, for some reason. Ha, could Apple care any less about that poor box?

So, how would this actually go down? I’d wager that a limited first wave of $1 shows will serve as a sort of pilot program. Once, or if, these shows make up their price decrease with larger download volume, it’ll be much easier to convince the rest of the content providers to go along with the new scheme. Got a better theory? Throw it in the comments. [Financial Times]

When you join Google Buzz, it automatically provides you with followers and followees based on prior communication. These people are then listed on your Google profile, which can be seen by all your friends. So, affair havers: maybe hold off.

A lot of the Giz staff was alarmed by the suggested/automatic follower lists, not because they were automatic, but because it was hard to tell how exactly they were chosen. Obvious additions, like girlfriends or coworkers, seem to make the cut. Other entries were people that were rarely—and sometimes never—emailed from the associated account.

Anyway, point is, it’s an odd concept, made odder by the fact that, as the Silicon Alley Insider noticed, other people can see you’re following, including the auto-adds. To put this in real terms:

• A girl you slept with in college sends you a message on Gchat, to tell you she has five beautiful children now, and that she doesn’t ever think about you, ever. Ok!
• You exchange some messages and a couple emails to be polite. You defuse the situation. You don’t mention it to your current girlfriend, because that would be weird.
• Coincidentally, you enable Google Buzz, which adds both your current girlfriend and this lady who you politely deflected.
• Your girlfriend checks out your Google profile, sees your friends list, and asks you who that lady is.
• You clumsily try to explain, “Oh, it just adds people you talk to automatically,” which only makes things worse.
• Fight!
• …
• You break up, which was probably a good thing anyway, because your relationship sounded really unhealthy. But you get the point, right?

Since fixing this is as simple as toggling a privacy switch in your profile, it’s less of a disastrous bug than it is an unfortunate default behavior, and despite their early insistence that this is a feature, not a flaw, Google will probably adjust accordingly. Still though, Buzz hasn’t gotten off to the greatest start, has it? [Silicon Alley Insider]

Warner Music, one of the four largest record labels, is upset with just how free their music is online, and they’re not talking about piracy: They’re worried about legit, ad-supported services like Last.fm, Spotify and Pandora. Uh oh.

Warner execs, who were just yesterday lamenting the (shocking!) correlation between raised iTunes prices and decrease sales, are just as uncomfortable with above-ground free services. Says Warner’s Edgar Bronfman Jr, via the BBC:

Free streaming services are clearly not net positive for the industry and as far as Warner Music is concerned will not be licensed.

“The ‘get all your music you want for free, and then maybe with a few bells and whistles we can move you to a premium price’ strategy is not the kind of approach to business that we will be supporting in the future.

The free services he’s referring to are only free in the sense that you don’t have to pay upfront for music streaming; they’re not free in that you’re generally being subjected to ads in exchange for listening.

Their problem with services like this seems to be twofold. The first and most obvious problem with a service like Pandora is that their advertising is probably bring in much, much less revenue that a simple digital or physical purchase. The second issue, subtle as it may be, is even more pernicious: to allow services to exist to appear to give away your music at no real cost is to devalue your product, making customers less likely to pay for it in the future. At least, that’s the thinking.

Whether Warner will sever existing agreements or just refuse to enter into new ones remains to be seen, but one thing’s for certain—the music industry is no happier to dismantle their decades-old business model than the the media is. It’s just a shame they’re figuring that out now, just as ad-supported music sites are coming of age, in no small part due to major label support. Business!

Update: Though the original BBC article makes reference to Pandora, the company tells reader Ryan Murphy that their service shouldn’t be affected:

Edgar Bronfman’s comment on the Warner conference call was addressing free on-demand services such as Spotify that are directly licensed. Pandora operates under a different licensing structure and won’t be impacted by Warner’s apparent decision with respect to free, on-demand services.

[BBC]

Nielsen stats put the average teen’s texting rate at about ten per hour during the day. This, and basic math, leads to some terrifying conclusions!

For example: Nielsen says that this rate of texting results in somewhere over 3000 text per month, per teen, on average. This means that nearly half of every day is texting time for these people, which, assuming they sleep at all, means that they’re either texting steadily all day, or a ton during after-school hours. And let’s say these texts average out to about 80 characters, which is half the maximum length for a text message: Even if the average word length is very generous five characters (that’s six, including a space), these kids are tapping out about 40,000 words of ephemeral nothingness every month, or roughly one Catcher in the Rye‘s worth of “WILL UR BRTHR BUY US SUM BEER?” and “R U REDDY 2 DO IT YET?” every two months.

What happens when these people get old? Nielsen, for what it’s worth, says they’ll just keep texting. [Marketing Vox via Textually via Twitter]

The Hoodie-Footie Snuggle Suit: It’s a Snuggie, except fitted, fleece, and with feet. Yes, ok, it’s pink, and the ad explicitly says “for women,” but I will not stand for such disgusting misandry in 2010. I’ll take ten, please. [Consumerist]

Today—and to us—the HTC Scorpion exists but a couple of lines of code in a purported leaked Android build. But one day, this 1.5GHz, Android 2.2 handset could be the phone that makes your Nexus One look old.

AndroidSpin’s got an alleged build script for an Android 2.2 build—that’s FRE65C, or Froyo, in case you were wondering—with an ARM Cortex processor clocked at 1.5GHz, to the Nexus One’s 1Ghz. As with desktop and laptop processors, frequency is far from the be-all, end-all indicator of performance, but still—that’s a 150% of the Snapdragon that’s in today’s top-end phones. Update: Oh! And evidently, there are traces of WiMax in here.

Combined with the rumored specs of the first wave of Windows Mobile 7 phones, this leak points to a serious cellphone spec war brewing on the horizon, the likes of which we haven’t seen since consumers stopped lusting over Windows Mobile 6.x handsets. And this time around, with software capable of actually using whatever ridiculous hardware companies like HTC come up with, the fight could be spectacular. [AndroidSpin via BGR]

iPhone SDK 3.2, which includes a full suite of iPad dev tools, has been updated to Beta 2. Bugs. Have. Been. Squashed:

▪ FIXED: Changing an iPhone Executable’s working directory from “Build Products directory” may cause the application not to install properly with the error message “The Info.plist for application at (null) specifies a CFBundleExecutable of (null), which does not exist.”
▪ FIXED: In iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 1, Xcode’s Transition feature did not work correctly if the SDK was installed in a location other than /Developer. In beta 2, the feature will work properly with the SDK installed in any location on your system.
▪ FIXED: In iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 1, some users saw the message “A signed resource has been added, modified or deleted…” when rebuilding their projects. This has been fixed for beta 2.

We’re also getting reports that there was some kind of testing bug with apps created in SDK 3.2 and running on iPhone 3.1.3, which SDK 3.2 Beta 2 fixes. So, minor stuff.

And because we’ve been getting this question a lot, there is a reason developers haven’t been showing off iPad apps in the SDK’s iPad simulator: they’re not allowed to. As with previous versions of the iPhone SDK, developers enter into an NDA with Apple, which explicitly prohibits them from showing off iPad apps, or at least major aspects of the SDK, simulator and development tools, to the public. Anyone who shows us anything more than renders of their iPad apps is asking to get blackballed. The more you know!

For Viacom, RealNetworks’ partner in the Rhapsody venture, a spinoff is a chance to get rid of a bleeding appendage. For Real, it’s like losing a failing—but vital—organ.

Ever since people stopped needing the RealPlayer plugin for anything other than streaming reports from their town’s third most popular local news station, and replaced RealPlayer with iTunes, Windows Media Player, VLC, MediaPlayer Classic or pretty much anything else, Rhapsody has effectively been RealNetworks’ thing. I mean, what else did they have? Their DVD ripping software was killed by the courts. RealArcade is fine, but marginal. Their video and audio streaming tech is outmodedl To top it all off, last month, their founder and CEO stepped down after fifteen years at the helm.

It’s hard to say what’ll happen to Rhapsody now, given that it won’t have Viacom’s resources and connections to fall back on, and that some of Rhapsody’s more visible marketing—namely their partnership with MTV—will probably dissolve. Maybe they’ll even move to distinguish the Rhapsody client from Real, I don’t know. But at least Rhapsody has Rhapsody. RealNetworks, as it stands, has somewhere over 1,500 employees (though it’s not clear how many could be sent to Rhapsody), and apparently, nothing to do with them.

I don’t know what’s Real anymore!

UPDATE: A RealNetworkser tipped us off to their TPS Division, which helps major carriers build RingBack tone systems, VOD and music download services, and help building branded streaming services for other sites. It accounts for their business, but it leaves RealNetworks generally out of sight to consumers. RealNetworks as a company still has some kind of role; as a brand, not so much. [MediaMemo]

What came first, the SDXC card reader or the the SDXC card? Also, could that be the worst riddle of all time? Maybe! Partly because it doesn’t really work, and partly because Elecom has already answered it.

Elecom’s MR-A001BK will be, to my knowledge, the first SDXC reader on the market, hitting (Japanese) streets later this month, about the same the first 64GB+ SDXC cards start shipping from reputable manufacturers. It only supports SDXC cards up to 64GB, which is just a fraction of the spec’s limit, but which’ll cover most of the first generation of SDXC cards, or at least the ones you can afford. Price is said to be 1,890 yen at launch, which converts to about $20. [Akihabara]

We’re covering Google’s mysterious, bizarrely secret product unveiling(s) live right here—and things are kicking off right now. Is Google just going all Twittery, or are they going to surprise us?

1:15: Google’s Bradley Horowitz is on stage, and he’s talking in broad terms about “sharing”, and things like that! Sounds like Twitter, in the context of rumors. WIthout the rumors, it sounds a little like nothing.

1:19: Ah! There it is. “Google Buzz.” It’s built into Gmail, and Google’s Todd Jackson is jumping on stage to talk about it.

1:21: Ok, this is what the WSJ was talking about: It’s a system of “social updates” that leverages your Google contacts. It can auto-follow, sort of like how Gmail automatically adds contacts. You can publish private or public updates.

1:25: Here’s what it looks like: It’s a bit like Twitter, but there doesn’t seem to be any kind of character limit. And you can share anything, like photos and video.

1:28: The Buzz timeline has all kinds of media support, including a cool automatic photo album thing. Using this looks a lot like using Twitter through an advanced client—you know how Tweetie or Tweetdeck lets you preview stuff without changing windows? The experience is a lot like that.

1:30: Haha, people have figured out the demo computer’s email address, and they’re spamming the inbox. Awesome.

1:33: Inbox integration is exactly what it sounds like—by @ing a comment on a Buzz link to one of your contacts, it will show up in their Gmail inbox. Google says obliquely that “the @ response has become very popular on the internet”, without mentioning Twitter at all. This is funny, see, because Buzz is a flaming cannonball aimed directly at Twitter’s heart.

1:35: Gmail’s “Just the Good Stuff” feature highlights popular content, so you can discover new Buzz folks to follow, I guess. Trending topics, anyone?

1:36: And yes, there are going to be mobile apps. But first, a speech.

1:38: Buzz will include geolocation on smartphones, to give conversations and content “context.”

1:40: Ok, here’s how Buzz on mobile will work: You can simply go to Google’s homepage on a supported smartphone, and click the little Buzz icon on the top right corner, next to the services list. It’ll poll your GPS, Wi-Fi network or cell towers and instead of tagging your post with lat/long coordinates, it’ll approximate your location with something like “Highpoint Mall” or “Yoni’s Adult Megaempornium.” It’s geotagging in English instead of numbers, basically.

1:42: The service shows up as an web app in a tab, like Gmail or Google Voice. From the looks of it, and because of the geolocation features, I think this web app is going to be specific to iPhone, Android and Pre—it’s leveraging some serious WebKit/HTML5 features here.

1:44: Oh! And it’s going to be rolled into Google Maps, too, so you can see who’s Buzzing around you, and update your Buzz from within the app. Google’s building this into existing software, it seems, instead of rolling it out as a new, standalone app.

1:49: They’re rolling video now, and I’ll say this much: This makes sense. Status updates feel at home nested inside services people already use, like Gmail, and while the enforced brevity of Twitter has its upsides, Buzz makes Twitter’s lack of media support look kind of stubborn. Plus, with Maps, Places, Gmail, Picasa, Google Reader and the 16273 other GProducts in Google Labs, these status updates have a lot more context, and a lot more to draw on. Then again, Facebook status updates have pleeeenty of context, and who the hell wants to use those?

1:51: Buzz is going live in a few minutes (2:00EST), but just for select journos. It’ll go live for other soon after, but I’m not sure when. UPDATE: It’s live for everyone, at least on mobile.

1:55: The first Buzz explain-o-promo video is out:

1:59: In its first version, Buzz will be able to suck updates from Twitter, but it won’t be able to inject them into Twitter. They’re interested in that, though!

2:02: Also, this is what Sergey Brin looks like when he’s attempting to murder a popular web service: Orange.

2:06: Every journalist in the Q&A: So it’s like Facebook and Twitter, right?
Google: NEXT

2:10: Well, that’s that. Liveblog, blog’d. Google: Twitter’d. Twitter, scare’d.

While you’ve been here, the rest of Giz has been diving deeper into Buzz:

• For anyone who asks: What Is Buzz?

• Why location could make Buzz Google’s new killer app

…and more to come.

If you want a laptop with graphics and battery performance that isn’t totally embarrassing, you’re basically stuck with some combination of Intel and Nvidia gear. Now, finally, AMD’s Llano, a CPU/GPU combo, or “APU”, could give us a serious alternative.

AMD running with the “Application Processor Unit” name isn’t as gimmicky as it sounds, because the Llano is genuinely unique: It’s four processing cores and a DX11-capable GPU on a single processor die. In simpler terms, this means that AMD has created a tidy little system on a chip, aimed at a few portable markets. In the simplest terms, they’ve shrunk laptop graphics and processing into a single chip, which saves power and space.

So! Not much is known about the Llano right now, but we can pick out some broad themes. The chip’s power regulation is novel, monitoring specific chip functions to gauge power draw rather than sensors. The graphics capabilities, though still generally a mystery, wouldn’t have to be very good at all to trump Intel’s lame integrated graphics. In other words, as Ars notes, this could be the first real baby of the still torrid AMD/ATI marriage, and the start of an ATI comeback, at least in laptops.

Or, given that we’re not expected to see these processors in products until 2011, when everything could be completely different, it could be none of these things. [Ars Technica]

Hey there, mixed messaging! As Netflix makes the case to Wii owners that they really aren’t missing anything by not streaming HD, word from CNET is that Netflix instant streaming is making the jump to 1080p, with 5.1 audio. UPDATED

CNET doesn’t have any info on which devices will support the upgrade, how much of their video library will be encoded in 1080p (only about six percent of their current catalog stream at 720p), or when exactly the new content will be available, though they can offer a vague “later this year.” What we do know is that Xbox already streams 1080p over Silverlight, the same tech that Netflix uses, though its Zune store, and that it looks pretty great.

One can only assume new content will work with the Xbox 360 and PS3, though it’s not clear if some Blu-ray players and set-top boxes have the power to decode 1080p video. 1080p streaming on the Wii, and through many computers browsers, is completely out of the question. Netflix, by the way, is totally fine with that—as long as people are streaming something, Netflix is happy.

UPDATE: Says CNET:

Netflix now claims that it incorrectly acknowledged 1080p streaming in the company’s 2010 development road map. A Netflix representative has clarified that the company plans to bring 5.1 surround and closed captioning to its streaming HD videos later this year, though 1080p Watch Instantly is not on the books for this year.

So, 5.1 audio is coming this year, and 1080p video probably isn’t—at least, that’s the official line. [CNET Web Crawler]