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milo said:
Well, LCDs do distort colors when viewed at an angle, the camera may shift colors depending on the mode, lighting, etc. There can be more color-shifting added while importing into a computer and then re-saved as a resampled JPEG.
After all that, how could the colors be right?
stop thinking its a tablet.
consider that if it were a tablet the power cord input would not be THAT huge.
seriously lol. like its so funny people are comparing it to the apple displays and such.
if it were a display apple would most likely put the power cable towards a corner area, as the battery would be located towards the end not the center.
this cable is going to the center because it is some type of connector.
bottome line, the connector is too big and occupying too much space for it to be a tablet.
90% sure its an vpod
consider that if it were a tablet the power cord input would not be THAT huge.
seriously lol. like its so funny people are comparing it to the apple displays and such.
if it were a display apple would most likely put the power cable towards a corner area, as the battery would be located towards the end not the center.
this cable is going to the center because it is some type of connector.
bottome line, the connector is too big and occupying too much space for it to be a tablet.
90% sure its an vpod
ijimk said:if that is real damn i want one lol
Count me in for one of those as well....
Have we found yet if Steve Jobs is giving some sort of mini keynote with this event?
TMA said:
Couple of comments... looking at a 1GB iPod nano box and the model number is MA350FB/A so I guess this starting MB isn't impossible.
Also, maybe the odd looking cable is just something used in production. It would be easier (and more convincing to the majority) to fake a photo with a regular iPod dock connector.
Having said that, something about this isn't sitting well with me. It's very convincing but I just don't quite buy it.
direzz said:
People were comparing it to a display to make the point that it has the same aspect ratio as an apple display. And I don't think most people think this is a tablet, but it could be an true video iPod that does other things also in a more PDA type fashion.
What a load of bollocks! I've spent a fair amount of my career to date in product design consultancy and I've never seen such a crap example of a pre-production model. The corner radiuses are completely wrong and definately nothing to do with Apple! Complete ****!
direzz said:
You may be right, but don't discount automatically the type/shape/size/position of any kind of connector on what's supposed to be a prototype photo. You should see the bundles of wires that get hooked up while engineering something that turns into one very nice thin cable when it comes time for production.
I don't really have any insight on this photo, but I have seen the difference between development and production enough times to know that you can't always judge the final product on some of these details.
If its a fake then I want to know who photoshopped it so I can hire them to touch up some photos for me!
*posts 5G iPod on craigslist*
*posts 5G iPod on craigslist*
Ligit
This seams to be ligit to me. It reminds me too much of the pictures from the last Video iPod release. I guess we will find out on tuesday!
This seams to be ligit to me. It reminds me too much of the pictures from the last Video iPod release. I guess we will find out on tuesday!
AlanAudio said:
I hate to burst your bubble, but those test bars are the industry standard for every type of video display, and at several points in manufacturing displays test bars are displayed... even on Plasma TVs. Furthermore you don't need to digitize the test pattern, even the original iPods had plenty of CPU power to generate bars on the fly. Almost all prosumer and higher video cameras generate bars internally.
I see your screen name is AlanAudio... you might want to stick with audio because you are clueless when it comes to video.
As others have speculated, I think the split cable is USB and A/V. It would be common during manufacturing to run a connection test like what this image seems to be showing. And labeling a cable in "plain English" as to its orientation for connection is common as well.
Like all of us, I have no idea if this is real.
My gut says... real! There are reasons to be suspicious, but there are also reasons to think it's real. And there is no PROOF either way, not that I've seen in reading this thread.
But if it's real, I don't think it's the magic do-everything device people are working themselves up over. I would not be at ALL surprised to see it have the SAME functionality as the 5G iPod... just a bigger screen and touchwheel. (Annoying loss of tactilve feedback, but cool at the same time!) Which is enough for me to want one
I don't think it proves anything: if it's a fake, the sticker probably still came from something.)
But if it's real, I don't think it's the magic do-everything device people are working themselves up over. I would not be at ALL surprised to see it have the SAME functionality as the 5G iPod... just a bigger screen and touchwheel. (Annoying loss of tactilve feedback, but cool at the same time!) Which is enough for me to want one
Could someone here generate a barcode with that whole serial number, just to see if it's a general match for the one in the sticker? (Just to playiMeowbot said:It's too bad that the bar code isn't a little larger. It's too small to scan, and eyeballing codes for the most likely candidate (code 128) leaves it ambiguous. The bars for the "B" and "8" possibilities look just about the same at that resolution
I don't think it proves anything: if it's a fake, the sticker probably still came from something.)horrible fake
if you haven't realized that this is fake.... get glasses. look at the white frame .... notice how some one tried to manipulate an image of an lcd screen to fit just within the outline of an ipod. totally a crappy fake.
take off the rose-colored glasses.
worst photoshop job i have seen in a while.
please try again
if you haven't realized that this is fake.... get glasses. look at the white frame .... notice how some one tried to manipulate an image of an lcd screen to fit just within the outline of an ipod. totally a crappy fake.
take off the rose-colored glasses.
worst photoshop job i have seen in a while.
please try again
I think I understand how it works.
Ever look inside a Mighty Mouse and how it senses your fingers through the plastic. I bet they put that stuff in or behind the screen. Even with a case i bet it will work. Also you know this will have a magic keyboard thing that turns the screen into a qwerty so you can SEARCH your files finally and possibly do some small time PDA stuff. Probably a gateway to then turning into a wireless communicator.
Ever look inside a Mighty Mouse and how it senses your fingers through the plastic. I bet they put that stuff in or behind the screen. Even with a case i bet it will work. Also you know this will have a magic keyboard thing that turns the screen into a qwerty so you can SEARCH your files finally and possibly do some small time PDA stuff. Probably a gateway to then turning into a wireless communicator.
I say fake as well, and here's why:
-As previously mentioned, it looks like there's a ridge around the screen which the sticker doesn't follow.
-They could have very easily faked the sticker, or even pulled it off an old version of Jaguar Server they had lying around.
-Shine through the sticker is easy to fake. Photoshop-->
insert test pattern-->insert sticker-->change layer transparency, or even selection transparency.
-That looks like an "8", not a "B"...I still need to do some cleanup and enhancement on the image, but the top of the character has exactly the same outward curve on both sides.
-Also, the "eMac Calibrated" could simply be the fact that they took a screenshot of a photoshop image. Could someone take a screenshot and do a Get Info on it in both Panther and Tiger? (If Panther supports EXIF data in Get Info, I forget.) This just seems odd to me.
However, if I'm wrong, I want one.
-As previously mentioned, it looks like there's a ridge around the screen which the sticker doesn't follow.
-They could have very easily faked the sticker, or even pulled it off an old version of Jaguar Server they had lying around.
-Shine through the sticker is easy to fake. Photoshop-->
insert test pattern-->insert sticker-->change layer transparency, or even selection transparency.
-That looks like an "8", not a "B"...I still need to do some cleanup and enhancement on the image, but the top of the character has exactly the same outward curve on both sides.
-Also, the "eMac Calibrated" could simply be the fact that they took a screenshot of a photoshop image. Could someone take a screenshot and do a Get Info on it in both Panther and Tiger? (If Panther supports EXIF data in Get Info, I forget.) This just seems odd to me.
However, if I'm wrong, I want one.
nagromme said:Could someone here generate a barcode with that whole serial number, just to see if it's a general match for the one in the sticker? (Just to play
Here they are.
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rogueimage said:
That's why a laptop's LCD screen appears white when it's turned off?
Sorry, but you're simply wrong on both the things you say. Black text on white is only easier to read in print. On screen white text on black is easier. Take a look at the Mac's Universal Access for an example of where this is used to help those with poorer sight.
if you know anything about light en the way it reflects an refracts, you can see that if it's fake this is done really well, to me the photo is as real as it gets. the question is this the new ipod not wheter this is photoshopped.
look up radiosity, and see that the colors reflect on the sides, and though the stiker. please look better.
milo said:
At last somebody gets it. Give that man a prize !
I'm not familiar with colour bars used in the NTSC world, but those ones are similar to PAL colour bars. As you point out, the dark blue bar is completely the wrong colour, it's almost the same as the cyan bar and others are a bit off too, but I'm prepared to put that down to the way that the colours on a display and a camera function. Digital cameras are often fooled by colours composed of spikes of energy, rather than a broad spectrum.
I've seen signals like this on countless occasions, but always on line-fed monitors. Like you say, I've never seen a signal like that displayed on a digital display. Colour bars are useful where you have composite video, but I've never seen them used in this sort of digital domain and can't imagine why anybody would display such an image on a digital display.
The moment I saw the picture, it was obvious that this is a line-fed LCD display and it's not an iPod.