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iPod Video Photo - a Fake
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Ok...I'm tired of this frankly. WHO THE HELL CARES!?!? Some Chinese guy made it! They are masters at making fakes! Fake jewelry, clothing, etc! (Thats not to be racist, because I'm Chinese.) So we shouldnt be getting hyped up. The video is a fake, period; the picture is a fake too. Sheesh.
Just option click to download the source
Just option click to download the source to your desktop. No need to buy Quicktime Pro.
amateurmacfreak said:Could anyone host it as a .wmv so I can save it with Flip 4 Mac w/o purchasing Quicktime Pro?
Just option click to download the source to your desktop. No need to buy Quicktime Pro.
dernhelm said:
yeah - however I would not be suprised if its just someone showing how it could be done (this is not a video of the original being made - it has lots of pans of the original image but none of it being made).
Interesting error here either way (original on the left, bad duplicate from video on the right):
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illw!l said:I think we should all make mock images of products we want, post them on the internet, and then whatever gets taken down MUST be real!
Yeah, that wont work. Apple will just start not serving notices because doing to so would reveal the real products.
But then we'll figure that out and know they aren't serviing the notice becuase the product is real and don't want to reveal it, meaning it IS real!
No, but then Apple would know that we know and server it with a notice to brak that theory...
But then we'd know that Apple knew that we know....
Thanks for testing! I'd still buy one missed episode to keep upemerrill said:
(But since I missed a whole SEASON, it will be Netflix to the rescue.)For the people who say the guy that made the original fake then went and made a second almost-the-same-fake so that he could make a video of it: yes, that's certainly possible. But the video could just as easily be made by someone else--and in fact, that would explain some of the things that were NOT shown in the video (the maker of the video basically showed the easiest parts). Not to mention, all the Google weirdness makes me suspect the video faker stuck his own test image on that supposed search result himself. File it under "trying too hard."
The video has no apparent connection to the original photo. Could there be some connection anyway? There could be. We don't know. So the video tells us nothing. (But style points for the musical montage at the beginning!)
The exact same video could have been made in the exact same way regardless of whether the original photo is real or fake.
tonybeak said:
Maybe he searched "lcd color test" on google.nl, but didn't get any results (because he wasn't spelling color as "colour".
So he had to go to the U.S. site to get what he was looking for.
The same things happens to me all the time (not from spelling). I look up something and get a bunch of results for something other than what I wanted so I have to rerun the search a few times with differnt terms added to filter it down.
SeaFox said:
However the Photoshop is NL version.
In the video you never see the final layout before the photoshop "work". The part where the cord is moving around does not even look like the final photo (the cord under the plastic is not there in the final).
So IMO the video is fake - so either the original photo is real or fake. Does not really get us anywhere. Guess we will see on Tuesday. Either way I believe there will be an iPod on Tuesday (video or non or shuffle) - reason for this is they announced the 1gb nano already - I think they would have saved it for this if they had no new iPod offerings.
While we're picking the poor guy apart, the blackout scribble in the original wasn't anti-aliased (it was like the Pencil tool or--gulp--Windows Paint). But in the video, the fake re-recreation of the scribble is anti-aliased (Brush tool).davido242 said:
Also, since it's been mentioned several times that the video shows how the light was made to come through the sticker... no, it doesn't. It briefly shows a quick transparency effect, not even completed, and then later just shows the original image.
I still lean toward it being light coming through an ACTUAL sticker in the original
(Which doesn't mean it might not some OS X Server sticker stuck on a 5G and then composited.)Another factor: it could be real and yet NOT planned for Tuesday
Maybe it's due in April for Apple's anniversary, or whenever some content agreement gets finalized... we may not even get closure on Tuesday SeaFox said:
That would make sense, except for the fact that a Google Image Search for "lcd color test" does not return the image used in the original photo of the iPod. Look through as many pages as you want; it's not there.
http://images.google.com/images?q=lcd+color+test&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
Either whoever made the video doesn't remember how he found the image originally or the person who made the video is NOT the same as the person who made the original photo. I'm going with the latter.
So why would the perpetrator decide to release this video now?Wouldn't they want to string people along as long as possible? Wouldn't they be better served showing off their handiwork after Feb 28? And wouldn't they want to take credit for this and not remain anonymous?
This makes as much sense as the Chewbacca defense.
This makes as much sense as the Chewbacca defense.
raggedjimmi said:
And the video is played at the event, doesn't end until we see Steve freakin Jobs doing the mock up. Now that would be cool. Then he does his one more thing and introduces the product.