Apple is claiming bragging rights on selling the 2 millionth iPad. We are less than impressed by the video performance on ours. Why is the media hiding the big flaw in the iPad?

We’re going to spend the week looking at the things Apple says it’s good at: 1) watching videos, 2) thin and portable, 3) running apps, and 4) connect anywhere anytime. Everyone needs to decide for themselves if this is a “must have” or useless gadget.

We’re going to cut through the clutter with some real hands on experience and a few tips. Without doubt, this is not a great device for browsing videos.

The Best Way to Experience…videos. Hands Down

That’s the claim on Apple’s website. Apple is also insisting all videos be H.264 compatible which means no Flash videos. Essentially that means browsing videos from YouTube or purchasing them at the iTunes Store.

Forget the politics, does this work for the best video experience hands down? The answer is not yet.

Apple has implemented a sub-standard 3G chip according to some analysts and the result is awful videos seen on an iPad. AT&T Takes No Blame For iPad 3G Video Problems “My youtube videos are kinda out of focus” MacRumors Forum

Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21 of Georgia, died during a training run Feb. 12, just hours before the Olympic opening ceremonies. Stephen Pate, publisher of the online site NJN Network, published the video along with commentary about the death, and the IOC has since ordered him in an email to take it down.

The email states the IOC owns the rights to all images of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, and only licensed broadcasters can use them. Pate said he won’t remove the video, because Canada’s Copyright Act allows the use of copyrighted material as part of a news story.

“One of the rights is for news organizations to report the news, so it’s a news story,” said Pate.

“The man died. Why did he die, was there negligence, what happened? And secondly, why is an international sports body trying to restrict the right of the public to see the story? And that made it a newsworthy item to write up.”

A spokesperson from the IOC told CBC News it had two main reasons for ordering that the luge video be taken down.

One is to protect the IOC’s exclusive rights and those of the official broadcasters. The other is the IOC feels it’s disrespectful to the Kumaritashvili family.

According to KSL, a virus on their website was trying to get user credit card information. The virus came from an ad on the site.

A similar virus infected a newspaper in Minneapolis. Newspaper delivers virus to its readers.

In Salt Lake City, the TV station started getting calls from customers and IT managers on Wednesday and Thursday. Some State of Utah government sites blocked KSL.com when they discovered the virus.

The station is owned by Deseret Digital Media who assured users they had isolated the virus source. Apparently it was hidden in the 3rd party advertisement.

“First of all, we apologize,” Clark Gilbert station CEO said. “[Users] should know we’re taking every precaution we can to protect the site.”

If you were hit, you would have seen a pop-up ad for an antivirus software on your screen. Clicking on it asks you for your credit card number.

General Manager of KSL.com Brett Atkinson said, “It’s definitely something that’s coming through not our local advertisers, but some of the third parties that we work with that do send advertisers to us.”

“Unfortunately, it got through their filters and attacked us. We found the source of that and have been able to pause it, but it’s something we have to watch all the time just to be safe,” Gilbert said.

This is the short launch from T minus 90 seconds to go throttle up. We will post the full 30 minute version from the final checkpoint to separation and an edited version about 1/3rd the length.

This is the second video in the article Warner Music hates fans in Canada

The video is a copy from the original video that has suffered badly in the conversion. The file is 40% smaller than the # 3 and shows bad pixelated scenes. The audio is the best of the three in the series.

This video is copyright Warner Music and used as fair dealing / fair use as part of a news story or criticism.