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Apple to Stream Live Video of 'iPad Mini' Media Event to Apple TV

Confirmed for DK too

Confirmed for DK too, so it seems to be a WW addition. Great detail, but streaming will indeed be possible from apple.com, I guess.
 
Considering how many live blogs break under the load, this could be a way of simply limiting the number of watchers. The traffic demand must be enormous.
 
This is REALLY intresting.

Are Apple finally 'cracking up'?

Or is it "just testing the waters" ?

I mean wasan't this the whole point Apple switched from streaming to begin with?

Took their time, One must wonder why it took soo long. Taking the above post into account
 
jollino said:
No Apple TV here so I'm genuinely ignorant on the matter: does it have/support Bluetooth keyboards at least? I've tried Bing on Xbox 360 when I first got in the beta program and never used it after the first time. Aside from the inconvenience of relatively small font on a big screen far away, it was a nightmare to navigate with the controller, let alone using it to "type" things in.

Perhaps the new Mini will have a renewed Front Row interface and be a smarter Apple TV?
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you can use your iPhone or iPad as a keyboard
 
tdream said:
In other news Apple's rubber band patent, all 20 claims on the patent invalidated.

Great timing I must add, inbetween presidential debate and product announcement this isn't going to grab many headlines today.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/10...invalidation-of-apples-rubber-banding-patent/
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12...ubber-banding-patent-asserted-against-samsung
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/23/foss-uspto-invalidates-apple-rubber-banding/
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The only people who will care about this are the various fanboys who think Apple is the devil and troll on sites like Engadget, CNet etc.
 
SiriusExcelsior said:
Watching live "Apple Events" broadcasts on an Apple TV feels just a tinge Orwellian :cool:
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The difference is after you watch it and then come to MR to complain about one detail or another a big black helicopter isn't going to land on your lawn or roof.

It's really not Orwellian at all. No more than say, viewing a DirecTV update video from your DTV set top box, or reading news about your school in the alumni magazine. PR in itself isn't what Orwell was warning us about.
 
tdream said:
In other news Apple's rubber band patent, all 20 claims on the patent invalidated.

Great timing I must add, inbetween presidential debate and product announcement this isn't going to grab many headlines today.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/10...invalidation-of-apples-rubber-banding-patent/
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12...ubber-banding-patent-asserted-against-samsung
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/23/foss-uspto-invalidates-apple-rubber-banding/
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Don't get too excited yet:

http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/10/patent-office-tentatively-invalidates.html

Apple's rubber-banding (overscroll-bounce) patent is still going to go through a lengthy proces before it may or may not be invalidated. There can be more than one non-final Office action. Even a "final Office action" is not final at all. It can be reconsidered by the Central Reexamination Division itself, and the last decision by that division can be appealed to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI), which is like an USPTO-internal appeals court. Remands by the BPAI to the Central Reexamination Division cause further delay. When the USPTO is done with the patent, its decision can be appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. And theoretically, a Federal Circuit decision can be appealed to the Supreme Court, which doesn't hear many patent validity cases (but does take a look at important issues from time to time).
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Why would apple just start doing this? Is it possible that this is a hint that Apple TV will be getting more functionalities today? I hope!
 
The Apple Store App is currently down. I know this normally happens when new products are announced, but it does seem quite early. I wonder if they'll add a stream link on there?
 
Is this just on the new ATV, or can it be found on the original? Not at home at the moment, so no way of finding out.

Having just had fibre optic broadband installed yesterday, I've now got a reason to stream a live video feed. :cool:
 
OllyW said:
If it's anything like the recent iTunes Festival broadcasts you'll be able to start watching them at any time after the event starts.
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True as they say. Although I tried to watch one of the festival events 30 minutes after it started, it wouldn't play for me on either my ATV2 or ATV3. I had to wait a whole day before it would play. :(
 
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