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iPod could this be real? i doubt it... (iPod AV)

Hobgobble said:
I think what is shown as brush stokes in the curves-enhanced version is actually a reflection of some sort.
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I agree - I flipped the image horizontally I think this would then give you what you would see if you were the one taking the photo and looked up - I agree with Vagcmyevad - it looks like a pipe running across the roof. Whilst it is easy to acheive with a low opacity layer - if you were creating the fake and went to that much trouble - wouldn't you make the reflections a touch more obvious?

Short of compelling evidence to the contrary - I'm going to stick my neck out and say this is a real object - not that it is necessarily the next iPod - but it is a real "thing" that has had its photo taken.
 
WaRrK said:
I know that most people think the 3rd one looks the most photoshopped, but to me it gives the most evidence that it is real - look at the reflection on the top of the iPod HiFi - over the volume controls you can see the reflection of the virtual click wheel, but to the sides you can make out the reflection of the screen boundaries and the darker shadow of the screen bevel. If they had taken a photo of the 5G there wouldn't be the 2 darker shadows running down the side of the screen reflection.

Granted - I'm no expert on this kind of thing and it may be hope overriding everything else.

Still we can all agree on the following:

1) If they are real - we all will want one

2) If they are fake - that's one talented photoshopper!
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yeah, i think it's the most convincing of the three, although i'm still not convinced. we'll know in the next month or so (hopefully)
 
Hobgobble said:
The only thing I can think of is to ask someone who owns the movie Ice Age to post an image from the 17 minute and 33 second mark.
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The image is from the Ice Age 2 preview available on the Apple Movie Trailers website. I can't get it to stop on that exact frame for some reason.
 
It kind of doesn't even matter if it's a fake.. If the rumors are true, that's what it'll look like anyway, or so close that it won't really matter. For now, all the fakes will just be variations on a theme until whatever it is gets released.
 
Some_Big_Spoon said:
It kind of doesn't even matter if it's a fake.. If the rumors are true, that's what it'll look like anyway, or so close that it won't really matter. For now, all the fakes will just be variations on a theme until whatever it is gets released.
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Has anyone noticed that MacShrine's ISP has suspended them?

http://www.macshrine.com

Very interesting...
 
derajfast said:
i think they are fake, and ive believed the others ones prior as being real......2 reasons,

i think the last picture with the scroll wheel looks pretty fake

also, apple wouldnt demo this with ice age......ice age isnt a pixar movie, and the person who made this probably thought it was......ice age is fox animation studio, a competitor to ice age

itd be more believable with the incredibles or finding nemo or toy story on it, but ice age is like having shrek on it
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I was going to say the exact same thing. I seem to recall a mockup last year having the same problem. Also, look at the size of the dock connector in pic #2 vs. pic #1. Is it just me or does it seem bigger in the second pic? Almost like it's a photoshopped nano. That said, it does look real to me, but I'm no expert.

-Squire
 
Squire said:
I was going to say the exact same thing. I seem to recall a mockup last year having the same problem. Also, look at the size of the dock connector in pic #2 vs. pic #1. Is it just me or does it seem bigger in the second pic? Almost like it's a photoshopped nano. That said, it does look real to me, but I'm no expert.

-Squire
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I might be wrong but if it is real, I doubt it was a picture apple would plan to release, therefore the fact that it is not a pixar movie doesn't really seem relevant.
 
two of these looks very fake...

Two of these have a couple of problems... if they were real these would not be in the photographs...

i'll put up what I mean in a second... gotta wait for a video to finish rendering before I try and manipulate any photo's in photoshop...

haha I wonder what the Mac Book pro will be like for this summer... hopefully this ipod is real and i'll be able to buy both the mac book and one of these..

.:: edit ::.

okay here we go with thumbnails but if you wanna see the high res demo's just click them







 
Anyone notice there is a visible headphone jack in the same spot as the 5th Gen in the pic where the 'iPod AV' docked in the Hi-Fi but no visible jack on the pic where its on its side...

I'm guessing fake.
 
decksnap said:
In the second one the black border around the movie doesn't look like a solid black border like the other one. It looks like a shadow/glow imposed over the video.
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I agree. They make it look like the image and the black are all on one level sitting on the surface of the iPod with no depth.

In fact, any LCD's image is sunk beneath the surface some, so at an angle, you'd see the depth on the far edges--extra black space--but the near edges would show less or no black, because the black would be hidden by the iPod's body. In this fake, there's an even line of black all the way around, which would only make sense head-on.

Here are a couple examples of how the screen border SHOULD look. There should be SOME depth even if you assume the new screen is "less deep" than the old one.

http://databank.alion.ru/upload/review/371/img/9195/resize_350x0-ipod-5g.jpg

http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000049790.JPG

Also, in photo 3, the reflection in the Hi-Fi looks nearly parallel to the original. I'm thinking it would show much more angle between the tilted iPod and its reflection. Someone with a 5G iPod dock could do a rough check to see if I'm right or not. (As far as I can tell, the angle of a Hi-Fi dock should be the same as any other dock.)

All good fun, but not as much as when an Apple event was actually expected soon....
 
treblah said:
Anyone notice there is a visible headphone jack in the same spot as the 5th Gen in the pic where the 'iPod AV' docked in the Hi-Fi but no visible jack on the pic where its on its side...

I'm guessing fake.
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Hmm, I'm not sure about that. I think I can juussstt make out the headphone jack in the first pic.
 
wow. fake or not, if apple were to release a true video iPod, i'd place a wager that it would look like this.
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I don't know if the image is real, but the above interface design makes no sense. You're having to power the entire 4" LCD just to get the touch screen controls. This is horribly inefficient. The battery life would be the same whether you're playing music or video. Doesn't make much sense. I'm leaning towards a fake.

The only way this design would make sense is if you could turn off the back lighting for the bottom part of the screen when you're playing music. But then this creates two other problems: first, it'd be hard to see the controls if the backlighting is off and second, you'd risk screen burns.
 
I really hope that the real 6th gen iPod looks like that. I'd be ordering one the day it was announced. That GUI looks awesome.
 
dongmin said:
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I don't know if the image is real, but the above interface design makes no sense. You're having to power the entire 4" LCD just to get the touch screen controls. This is horribly inefficient. The battery life would be the same whether you're playing music or video. Doesn't make much sense. I'm leaning towards a fake.

The only way this design would make sense is if you could turn off the back lighting for the bottom part of the screen when you're playing music. But then this creates two other problems: first, it'd be hard to see the controls if the backlighting is off and second, you'd risk screen burns.
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I don't look at the clickwheel when I'm navigating my ipod, so it wouldn't necessarily need the backlight.

Granted, the reason I don't look at it is because the clickwheel is a tactile experience. It has a different texture than the rest of the ipod and pushes just like a button. Having the clickwheel on the screen will completely eliminate the tactile sensation, so navigating this device without looking at it would be a nightmare. Even the 3G iPod had texture and recessed buttons that you could feel with your finger.

That alone casts the credibility of the product in this form into doubt.
 
Fake!!!

ice age 2 hasen't been released!!! unless he works for him:confused:
 
why do people waste there time on these things?

i think its just a waste of time

jordanste said:
are you kidding me!?
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why do u say that???:)
 
I've gone ahead and posted those pictures in my last post in an attempt to disprove these photos.

I am no photoshop expert but I know enough to zoom in...
 
macluver101 said:
ice age 2 hasen't been released!!! unless he works for him:confused:
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I've already grabbed the same frame off the Ice Age 2 trailer on the Apple website. So this iPod is playing the trailer, obviously.
 
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