iPod Video Photo - a Fake

[Templetalker]

No, Apple's design team is this consistent and minimalist The image is plausible BECAUSE it doesn't look too different from other iPods. That's why the nano shares the 5G's style, and the MacBook Pro shares the PowerBook's style. And simplicity is king. Change comes, but not EVERY time.

Check my post about no borders?

 

[Templetalker]

Now I have to admit both the photo and video are fake. I can't imagine arnebik can pay so much attention to details, which made the original photo so real. Salute!

Rockblade, he did do an excellent job, but not with the Chinese characters, no way, no how. I do admit, a little piece of me wished he wrote them better.

 

[sux4ubiatch]

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong....

Here's some of my findings:

You're taking screenshots from different stages in the video. The first is after the rotation and duplication. The 2nd from the left is the shot if the LCD pattern being scaled and distorted into the frame (after this step, the border thickness may change. And finally, the thicknesses are different because of the different levels of zoom in between these shots.

Easy answer, the one he did on top of the screen was a bad scribble. He changed his mind, re-did it and moved it back onto the bottom right. If he had faked it from the "real" original, there would be no way to recreate what was under the "real" scribble anyway.

The wire was only there in the photo he took for the right side of the "real" ipod's screen. Anything to the left of the screen in this shot was not included in the final product.

Easy one. Either added or erased later on.

Again, you are comparing a shot from the final product to a shot from a different angle.

WRONG.

 

[freeny]

^^^ Wow! you signed up to MR for that?? Impressive!

I must say, this is really getting ridiculous, But fun!

 

[freeny]

DUDE!!

It was the guy holding the iPod by the grassy knoll!

Back and to the left...

 

[kugino]

for once and for all, the picture is a photoshopped mock. so, it's a fake. the video is from the same person, but he's just showing how he did it. since the video was created after the original photo, of course some details are going to look different. a missing "7" or a little crease difference or a change in the scribble is nothing major. he went and recreated his steps for the video so of course minor things might be different. get over it. no video ipod will be announced tomorrow!

 

[Peace]

for once and for all, the picture is a photoshopped mock. so, it's a fake. the video is from the same person, but he's just showing how he did it. since the video was created after the original photo, of course some details are going to look different. a missing "7" or a little crease difference or a change in the scribble is nothing major. he went and recreated his steps for the video so of course minor things might be different. get over it. no video ipod will be announced tomorrow!

I agree with everything you say except the video iPod part..

Fun,new,products could very well include a new video iPod..

 

[kugino]

I agree with everything you say except the video iPod part..

Fun,new,products could very well include a new video iPod..

yes, you're right. i did not mean to conclude that because the video and the pictures are fakes, that a video ipod will not be introduced (conclusion does not follow from premises, eh?)

i'm iffy on the video ipod being announced tomorrow because it's the one product i will definitely buy if/when it is announced. i don't need a new laptop yet, don't need a pda, don't need a DVR...but i still have my 4G and have been waiting for the 6G as my next ipod purchase...my head says no, but my heart says go

 

[4np]

A guy on the Dutch macosx.nl forum (the tools in the Video are in Dutch) admitted he made the Video and he said he first made the photograph and after he saw it was such a hype he created the video in which he reproduced the creation of the initial photo. So that's why there are differences in the photographs.

 

[bloogersnigen]

new imedia center!!!!

Look what i found online at apple.com they screwed up and put in on excatly when I went on. OH my god

https://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=41977&stc=1&d=1141082015

ps its a fake if you didn't get that

pps how do you make pictures apear in your reply I could only get a link

 

[sandman42]

A guy on the Dutch macosx.nl forum (the tools in the Video are in Dutch) admitted he made the Video and he said he first made the photograph and after he saw it was such a hype he created the video in which he reproduced the creation of the initial photo. So that's why there are differences in the photographs.

One difference I don't get is why the handwritten "This side (up)" characters, in both the original photo and the video, not only don't match each other but also don't match the ones supposedly generated by the web translator in the video. If you look at them closely, you'll see that there are small differences. Would someone who needed a web translator be able to create characters that were close enough that people would understand them (as some did several days ago), without knowing what they were intended to mean?

 

[gouldberg4]

G4 Channel - Attack of the show!

Did anyone else happen to see "Attack of the show" on G4? They claimed that they were the one's who made the video of the creation of the photo. They provided a behind the scenes clip of them making the video.

 

[Absolute Zero]

I caught Attack of the Show!, but for some reason I don't think they made that video... that video shows the photo being edited on a Mac, but AOTS was using a PC to make that photo...

 

[ezekielrage_99]

This is just more proof of:


The best information is always mis-information

 

[kugino]

A guy on the Dutch macosx.nl forum (the tools in the Video are in Dutch) admitted he made the Video and he said he first made the photograph and after he saw it was such a hype he created the video in which he reproduced the creation of the initial photo. So that's why there are differences in the photographs.

sounds right...that's what i've been saying all along.

 

[Don't panic]

i'll add this useful observation to the 342 highly useful ones that precede it:

the creator of the hoax was arn(eblk)!

 

[ezekielrage_99]

This is like "Where's Wally: iPod Edition" or one of those intrinsically stupid magic eye pics.

Or maybe it's one of those ink blot tests...........

I hope I'm not crazy

 

[ACoolie]

Well, I admit I didn't read 95% of the posts in this topic and just joined up.

But, there are notable differences between the picture and the video that have yet to be mentioned.

First of all, on the bar code, it is quite odd how in the video he is able to make it appear as if from magic. There is a greenish border on parts of the bar code that does not appear on the other.

That lcd image he found does not appear on any in googles images and not on the first few pages of google web. While it would make sense to come out on a Dutch mac forum, if his English was good enough to know lcd and test, two lesser used words, why didn't he post on any English websites? Also, why would he have to recolor that one bar? Another thing to prove this was made after the original was the google icon. The hockey puck one was displayed two or three days ago, definately not four. This could not have been made before the original date of posting.

To continue with the Dutch thing, why would he translate from English to Chinese when Dutch would clearly be his primary language due to the google preferences.

When he selects the filter menu item, all of the items are grayed out. Meaning he did not select an image.

If you look carefully at the upper righthand corner of the photo, that corner is also lit up. When the photo of the ipod was taken in the video, it was clearly turned off.

Don't really know my point by this post. But, whoever made the hoax wasn't the man who made the video.

 

[age234]

To continue with the Dutch thing, why would he translate from English to Chinese when Dutch would clearly be his primary language due to the google preferences.

The translation widget can't do Dutch to Chinese.

 

[corywoolf]

Funny, I new it was a fake from the moment I saw it. It wasn't very Apple like, good photoshop skills though! I am sort of happy it was a fake.

 

[nagromme]

Funny, I new it was a fake from the moment I saw it. It wasn't very Apple like, good photoshop skills though! I am sort of happy it was a fake.

Not Apple-like? It's almost exactly like the current iPods.

But, whoever made the hoax wasn't the man who made the video.

That's my feeling too.

I don't think the video even shows HOW the original was made: the method the video uses (placed EPS) to put the image on the device makes no sense leading to the end result (with moires, glow on the whites, reflections in the plastic, light through sticker which the video skips quickly past, etc.).

Some OTHER method was used to put the image on the original photo (for instance, snapping a photo of the pattern on a real screen, or actually loading parts of onto the 5G). Therefore I really think the person who made the video isn't "showing what he did the first time."

All of which is less relevant than the device itself, of course

 

[Tupring]

Great video. I kowtow to the PS deities once more, because I can't even make a good-looking circle in Photoshop after using it for ten years.

Isn't there a circle tool?

 

[rog]

No 7 on the product tag in the video

OK, whoever made the video forgot to add the 7 to the final image which ends the movie. As you see in the beginning in the screen shots of the original picture, there is a 7 on the product number sticker. That and the quick cuts which don't explain the flaring of the bright colors make me question the video. Also, why would they take the LCD test they found on the internet and change one of the white panels to red? Except to make it look more real when the real thing found on the search didn't have a red panel!

 

[rog]

scribble in video not the same as on final image!

Ok, here's another thing I just noticed. The black felt looking scribble generated in the video is not the same as on the final image. And you'll see that there is a jump cut from the drawing of the scribble to where it is placed at the end. Look particularly at the first 3 bumps of the scribble in the final image. They look nothing like the movie of the scribble.


p.s. sorry I clearly haven't read the earlier post because it is late and I'm too exhausted to read through them . Nevertheless, I was convinced by the video at first, but now, I just don't know. Seeing is not always believing.

p.p.s. The handwritten characters in the video look nothing like those in the still image. They look like a bad attempt at trying to make them look the same, again discguised by quick cuts. I also saw the bizarre way in which the black ink seemed to draw itself before the actual pen writes.

 

[nagromme]

OK, whoever made the video forgot to add the 7 to the final image which ends the movie.

Ok, here's another thing I just noticed. The black felt looking scribble generated in the video is not the same as on the final image. And you'll see that there is a jump cut from the drawing of the scribble to where it is placed at the end. Look particularly at the first 3 bumps of the scribble in the final image. They look nothing like the movie of the scribble.

Good catches. Makes wonder if those Chinese characters of unknown meaning are the same as the original?