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iPod Video Photo

I think it's a winner too.

Looks like a 16:10 format screen. 720x450? 768x480?

Couple that with downloadable movies from iTMS, at the same resolution ... and iTunes gaining DVD ripping capability (Windows Vista also has this feature I read yesterday, so I will believe that it will be allowed a bit more now, with suitable DRM applied by iTunes when ripping) and you have something that could be THE portable video player ... with music capability, photos, and ... touch screen games?

I hope it has note taking capability (stylus? or finger operated?) and at least basic PDA functions too. OTOH Apple is well known for not over-featuring their devices.
 
I'm surprised no one has looked this up:

M8719Z/A is the bar code / PN for the 10 client MAC OS X server
 
1984 said:
It's just a regular iPod Video with a paper cutout of a color bar test stuck on top of it. You can even see where the paper bows out. I'm surprised the picture wasn't taken in an "elevator" like all the rest.
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Hm, I'm not sure that's the case but you could be right. It certainly could be as you say, but it doesn't look like it is, to me. It's a crappy picture, so I suppose that it could be almost anything. :)

Even so, something like this is bound to come from Apple eventually.
 
There are certainly reasons to think it's fake, but it does LOOK very good (except for the connector thing).

Anyway, now that real hard rumors are scarce in Mac-land, I enjoy the diversion of fakes :) ESPECIALLY in elevators.

And this looks like what anyone would assume a full-screen iPod would be--a good guess, if a full-screen iPod exixts. (Although I'm skeptical of such a product coming out so soon at all.)

I don't think it's a paper cutout though--so much easier and better to do your fakery in Photoshop, and that screen is brighter than unlit paper would be.
 
boncellis said:
I don't think I'm the only one who assumes the event next week will have something to do with whatever Apple was unable to present at MWSF in January. I'm not sure if that will account for everything that is unveiled on Tuesday, but I expect the event to relatively substantial. (Judging by the almost 800 posts on the topic this week, I would guess that I'm not alone.)

Unfortunately, the morass of ideas being thrown about within different threads leads to some frustration when one reader thinks s/he has come up with a flash of insight, but it is in fact a rehashing of several different posts. I see repeats as emphasis on a point that warrants redress in some form.

With that preamble, I think this idea is significant. Why has Apple held back on releasing updates to Front Row? I feel like there has to be a definite answer somewhere. It is so promising, if only it were refined through the normal process of updates it could be a truly "killer app." My sentiments echo the ones I quoted (and have for some time) that Front Row's potential is not limited to occasional use on the small percentage of iMacs and MBPs with which it ships. Use on an iPod or intermediate device? Brilliant.
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I truly believe front row is Apple's next HUGE blow to the market. It's such a brilliant and beautiful program. If they could integrate it into ipods/phones, it could become the media center connection we've been looking for. A box on top of our tvs that link our computers, ipods, phones, all digital devices under one remote. It's brilliant. If you look at the pictures of the supposed Nokia phone coming out...the interface looks amazing! I could easily see them integrating something similiar into ipods. And what sucks is I just finished paying off my credit cards for my xbox 360...damn you apple haha :)
 
hcuar said:
I'm surprised no one has looked this up:

M8719Z/A is the bar code / PN for the 10 client MAC OS X server
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And someone has already looked it up, I think in both the first page of this thread and the first page of the original from this morning (a merge would be nice :p).
 
yoda_four said:
I overlayed a 5G iPod on this image to check out what resolutions this device could pull off. Seeing as how 5G is 320x240, if you double that you get 640x480, which is VGA resolution. Look at the pic below and you'll see that the device basically doubles the screen size (= doubled resolution to VGA, right?)

BTW, the PSP is 480x220 and the Creative Zen is 640x480.

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From your overlay, assuming sizes are correct, and pixel sizes are the same, then you'd have something more like 512x320.
 
hcuar said:
I'm surprised no one has looked this up:

M8719Z/A is the bar code / PN for the 10 client MAC OS X server
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Welcome to 4 hours ago.

It is MB, not M8.

Which makes sense, my nano is a MA part. It's about time Apple moved to MB.
 
Does anyone have the Apple combined Firewire/USB cable? The connector looks a little like it, perhaps a revised version?
 

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The back of my 5G iPod says Model No: A1136. I'm not ready to say that this is a fake yet. As "leaked" photos go, this one is pretty convincing.
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I can't find the model numbers on the Apple website, and I don't have a 60GB iPod 'video' myself, but Amazon lists the black version of that iPod as model number MA147LL/A. The model number on the sticker on this photograph is MB719Z/A. That's close enough for me, and Google doesn't return anything with that latter number. Did someone else say that Z/A typically indicates a software product? What might one deduce from that?
 
cgingrich said:
I truly believe front row is Apple's next HUGE blow to the market. It's such a brilliant and beautiful program. If they could integrate it into ipods/phones, it could become the media center connection we've been looking for. A box on top of our tvs that link our computers, ipods, phones, all digital devices under one remote. It's brilliant.
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I feel the same way. The box you referred to may well be the next incarnation of Airport Express with the rumored video capability.
 
sartinsauce said:
Wow, that's huge! My pythagorean says over nine inches. That's so big that resolution is going to be an issue. At that size you almost have to have standard def (648x480) or higher. You could have less, but people will comment frequently at the poor image quality.

I'm thinking that sticker is smaller than you estimated.
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Another thing I was think was about the semi-recent virtual wheel tablet looking patents Apple filed a while back. The line art drawings of the example device was about that size (8 or 9" diagonal screen)... let's see if I can find that pic...

Here they are: http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/48/new-apple-patents

The more I look at it, the more I think that's what this is.
 
If you can input, then there will be input hacks, whether or not Apple includes a stylus or keyboard. It'll take a Slashdotter 20 minutes to make an on screen keyboard and file system/DB. Then comes the WiFi attachments, external keyboards, you name it. This is what I've been waiting for since I really don't need to be carrying around a full 12" PB everywhere, and come Tesday, maybe I won't have to anymore.


Hattig said:
I think it's a winner too.

Looks like a 16:10 format screen. 720x450? 768x480?

Couple that with downloadable movies from iTMS, at the same resolution ... and iTunes gaining DVD ripping capability (Windows Vista also has this feature I read yesterday, so I will believe that it will be allowed a bit more now, with suitable DRM applied by iTunes when ripping) and you have something that could be THE portable video player ... with music capability, photos, and ... touch screen games?

I hope it has note taking capability (stylus? or finger operated?) and at least basic PDA functions too. OTOH Apple is well known for not over-featuring their devices.
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m-dogg said:
Would anyone mind posting a copy of the pic in this thread? I'm at work and flickr is blocked.

Thanks!
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Ask and ye shall receive!
 

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Does anyone have the Apple combined Firewire/USB cable? The connector looks a little like it, perhaps a revised version?
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Great catch!

Now, if your stomach isn't full of butterflies, treat yourself to a cookie.;)
 
Can anyone here speak Japanese? Do they know what it says on the connector?

Probably, ha-ha you suckers!
 
sartinsauce said:
I really want to believe this as I too am looking to replace my 3G 20Gig.
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But would you really replace a 3G ipod with one this big?? I have a nearly full original 60GB ipod photo, and can't imagine buying something like this to use for my music collection...the video capability doesn't really do much for me, otherwise I would have bought the 5G ipod. Also, will this be a dedicated video player or will it also have music playback capability?

I'm just curious if this "new" ipod is going to replace the 5G current iPod or will it be a new product for the iPod line-up, i.e.:

video iPod -- iPod -- iPod nano -- iPod shuffle
 
I'll throw this into the pot... When I first saw this, I went for a hunt through our mainframe ordering system for Apple orders. We've got no iPod orders confirmed from Apple for the future which given I work for a company that sell a lot of iPods is surprising.

Also surprising is the number of 60GB iPods that are 'outstanding' on the most recent two invoices. They are the slower sellers by a mail of all the iPods and I wonder whether perhaps this 'new' video iPod might replace the 60G one - since you 'need' more space for videos than music. Thus allowing them to increase prices for the 60GB while keeping the 30GB music/basic video at the 'market' level.
 
Proud Liberal said:
But would you really replace a 3G ipod with one this big??
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Yeah. I want the higher resolution color screen. Also, I make and watch a lot of short films. It would be fun and easy to carry them around this.

For me it's not really about the size of the hard drive when it comes to music. I've got about 8gigs of music on my current iPod, and that's more than enough.
 
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