Film vs. Video. Film has a grain and texture to it. Almost a three dimensional look due to the way the chemicals are layered. It also has a characteristic motion that's hard to describe. Video on the other hand is flat and much smoother...in some ways video is much more realistic, but doesn't give you that warm fuzzy feeling inside. As he's still shooting on film, the smoothness part is whats being referred to here.

If you still can't figure it out, try watching a movie on a newer HDTV with the blur reduction setting off, then turn it on. Suddenly everything will look weird. Its not an exact replication of film vs. video, but it'll give you a general idea.

Let's hope so...sending nitrate film stock into a war zone would be a bad idea. Unless you're sending it to the enemy camp that is...

Terrorist 1: Ah look, the Americans sent us old silent movies.
Terrorist 2: Why would they do that?
Terrorist 3: I don't know, but they also sent us cases of cigarettes.

Doctor Who already showed us what would happen if Apple was allowed in our cars...it was called ATMOS.

Well, it is an improvement considering the studios sent Kinetoscopes during the first gulf war.

Its probably so they can be paid anytime a soldier watches a film. If they sent them DVDs, they'd get distributed among the troops. The film snob in me wants to say film is a chemical process that even the best digital projection couldn't match and the MPAA wants our troops to have the best...but I know that has nothing to do with it.

They do live in San Francisco. They live in a garden style apartment complex behind a large privacy fence.*

* I just made that up.

I heard they wanted to hire a famous chef...then decided that would be too much flash.

The sad part is, Apple will say they invented ad supported software, and a large subsection of the population will believe it. Then they'll back Apple as they enforce their patent so that only Apple computers can use ad supported software. Or, even worse, Apple will get proceeds from every ad placed in a software product. Just to be clear, I didn't RTFA, but I would only be a little bit surprised if the patent was written broadly enough to make that happen.

Steve Jobs came up with the idea of ad supported software, that you can pay for to remove the ads! Awesome! The man truely was a genius.

I didn't RTFA. Do you think us tin foil types read more than the summary?