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'It's Showtime': September 12th, 2006
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Maybe Steve will be using the new iChat Theater features of Leopard to do his keynote presentation 
They've actually created an AI based on a download of Steve's brain into a Mac Pro and will use one of the new VoiceOver personalities as its voice.Silentwave said:Maybe Steve will be using the new iChat Theater features of Leopard to do his keynote presentation
Virtual Steve will take over the CEO job immediately Max Headrom style. All future keynotes will be given by Virtual Steve.
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My guess is that the Core 2 Duo MBs & MBPs will be a silent release who knows when.
The Showtime event will be for the iTunes Movie Store and an upgraded iPod with a slight design change (not the widescreen iPod). And possibly an Airport Express with video streaming, which would be sweet because I'd like to get another Airport Express anyway.
The Showtime event will be for the iTunes Movie Store and an upgraded iPod with a slight design change (not the widescreen iPod). And possibly an Airport Express with video streaming, which would be sweet because I'd like to get another Airport Express anyway.
For the last few days there has been a lot of adverts of iTunes and the Nano on TV, like the city one "This ain't the first time!". So Apple I think is already promoting them a bit more Perhaps we will see an updated Nano, iPod, Music/Movie store and stuff
(sorry if something has been mention, I can't be arsed to read all 10 pages )
Perhaps we will see an updated Nano, iPod, Music/Movie store and stuff (sorry if something has been mention, I can't be arsed to read all 10 pages
)Interesting stuff from New York Times today
THE FOLLOWING WRITTEN BY JOHN MARKOFF, New York Times from International Herald Tribune website:
Has Apple Computer's chief executive, Steve Jobs, found a way to connect the PC to the TV?
On Tuesday, Apple will hold another of Jobs's marketing events here to unveil what trade publications and analysts indicate will be his next campaign: to transform the distribution of Hollywood movies as thoroughly as he has revolutionized the recording industry with the iTunes Music Store.
A distribution deal with Disney and sleeker, higher-capacity video iPods are part of the consensus among those who handicap Apple product announcements, but company executives have hinted that Apple has at least one bigger idea on tap.
Jobs needs one. In his quest to remake Hollywood distribution in the Internet era, his main challenge is one that has bedeviled the entire personal computer industry. Today, despite many efforts by Microsoft, Intel and a variety of start- up companies to insinuate the computer into home entertainment, almost all movies in the home are viewed by cable, satellite or DVD players, making it possible for Hollywood to control both piracy and pricing.
The computer industry, under the banner of "digital convergence," has been looking longingly at the American living room for several years. As long ago as 1993, Microsoft tried to rally the cable industry under the banner of Cablesoft, an abortive effort to turn the home cable box into a Microsoft-based PC.
More recently, Microsoft and Intel have invested millions in a slow-growing effort to offer Media Center PCs that promise a single home entertainment box. Separately, Microsoft has been trying to start a business in Internet-based television technology, to arm telephone companies to compete with cable operators. And in January, Intel introduced a microprocessor system called Viiv, designed for PC-based digital entertainment. So far it has found few backers.
Despite proclaiming that its Macintosh computer is the center of a digital home strategy, Apple has taken only baby steps into the video era, offering iPods that play television videos on tiny screens and a software program called Front Row, largely hidden within the Mac, for managing video collections, music playlists and slide shows.
Those efforts may become more aggressive on Tuesday, but so far Jobs has kept his strategy well hidden. Much speculation has centered on a living- room-ready version of the company's least expensive computer, the Mac Mini, a compact desktop model originally positioned as an inexpensive way for PC users to switch to the Macintosh market. A living-room Mini could play DVDs, download Internet data like digital movies and include a TV tuner.
A more intriguing possibility widely discussed by former Apple engineers is that Apple may use wireless technologies like Wi-Fi and Ultra-Wideband to stream digital content from a Macintosh to the TV. Such a system would allow the video to be played on the TV with the computer's Apple remote control.
Such an approach would appeal to Jobs's Spartan aesthetic. And it tracks with one of Apple's peripheral products, AirPort Express, which makes it possible to stream digital audio wirelessly to speakers in different rooms of a home.
Moreover, such an approach would keep Hollywood digital video content locked up on a Macintosh and stream it to the TV using a connector called HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface), which is engineered to offer copy protection.
The obstacle to such a wireless home video service is that real-world wireless environments in the home are replete with interference from devices like microwave ovens, wireless video cameras and phones, and uncooperative neighbors.
"The 'last mile' problem of delivering broadband to the home has largely been solved," said Steve Perlman, a former Apple engineer. "What remains is the 'last hundred feet' problem." By that, he meant reliably delivering high-definition video to the TV using Internet- based technology.
"Once that has been solved," he said, "it will completely transform the entertainment landscape."
THE FOLLOWING WRITTEN BY JOHN MARKOFF, New York Times from International Herald Tribune website:
Has Apple Computer's chief executive, Steve Jobs, found a way to connect the PC to the TV?
On Tuesday, Apple will hold another of Jobs's marketing events here to unveil what trade publications and analysts indicate will be his next campaign: to transform the distribution of Hollywood movies as thoroughly as he has revolutionized the recording industry with the iTunes Music Store.
A distribution deal with Disney and sleeker, higher-capacity video iPods are part of the consensus among those who handicap Apple product announcements, but company executives have hinted that Apple has at least one bigger idea on tap.
Jobs needs one. In his quest to remake Hollywood distribution in the Internet era, his main challenge is one that has bedeviled the entire personal computer industry. Today, despite many efforts by Microsoft, Intel and a variety of start- up companies to insinuate the computer into home entertainment, almost all movies in the home are viewed by cable, satellite or DVD players, making it possible for Hollywood to control both piracy and pricing.
The computer industry, under the banner of "digital convergence," has been looking longingly at the American living room for several years. As long ago as 1993, Microsoft tried to rally the cable industry under the banner of Cablesoft, an abortive effort to turn the home cable box into a Microsoft-based PC.
More recently, Microsoft and Intel have invested millions in a slow-growing effort to offer Media Center PCs that promise a single home entertainment box. Separately, Microsoft has been trying to start a business in Internet-based television technology, to arm telephone companies to compete with cable operators. And in January, Intel introduced a microprocessor system called Viiv, designed for PC-based digital entertainment. So far it has found few backers.
Despite proclaiming that its Macintosh computer is the center of a digital home strategy, Apple has taken only baby steps into the video era, offering iPods that play television videos on tiny screens and a software program called Front Row, largely hidden within the Mac, for managing video collections, music playlists and slide shows.
Those efforts may become more aggressive on Tuesday, but so far Jobs has kept his strategy well hidden. Much speculation has centered on a living- room-ready version of the company's least expensive computer, the Mac Mini, a compact desktop model originally positioned as an inexpensive way for PC users to switch to the Macintosh market. A living-room Mini could play DVDs, download Internet data like digital movies and include a TV tuner.
A more intriguing possibility widely discussed by former Apple engineers is that Apple may use wireless technologies like Wi-Fi and Ultra-Wideband to stream digital content from a Macintosh to the TV. Such a system would allow the video to be played on the TV with the computer's Apple remote control.
Such an approach would appeal to Jobs's Spartan aesthetic. And it tracks with one of Apple's peripheral products, AirPort Express, which makes it possible to stream digital audio wirelessly to speakers in different rooms of a home.
Moreover, such an approach would keep Hollywood digital video content locked up on a Macintosh and stream it to the TV using a connector called HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface), which is engineered to offer copy protection.
The obstacle to such a wireless home video service is that real-world wireless environments in the home are replete with interference from devices like microwave ovens, wireless video cameras and phones, and uncooperative neighbors.
"The 'last mile' problem of delivering broadband to the home has largely been solved," said Steve Perlman, a former Apple engineer. "What remains is the 'last hundred feet' problem." By that, he meant reliably delivering high-definition video to the TV using Internet- based technology.
"Once that has been solved," he said, "it will completely transform the entertainment landscape."
I predict the following:
iTunes Movie Store with... 1080 HD movie downloads.
Updated Cinema Displays.
New Airport Extreme with 802.11n (for streaming the said Movies wirelessly)
iPod updates, either slightly modified nano(new cases+more compacity) and/or updated video iPods with higher compacity for said HD movies.
I really do think theywill be available in 1080, and that will be a very big deal.
blueray? hd dvd? who cares i can just get them on itunes.
iTunes Movie Store with... 1080 HD movie downloads.
Updated Cinema Displays.
New Airport Extreme with 802.11n (for streaming the said Movies wirelessly)
iPod updates, either slightly modified nano(new cases+more compacity) and/or updated video iPods with higher compacity for said HD movies.
I really do think theywill be available in 1080, and that will be a very big deal.
blueray? hd dvd? who cares i can just get them on itunes.
HDMI wireless coupled with a wireless iPod/Tablet that allows you to see your controls would be a must for many Mac fans.
It would make a lot of sense if Apple isn't going to do a Mac Pro Mini to do a HDMI wireless instead. And because your Mac is likely to be in another room (target audience being the iMac) they need a wireless (non-line of sight) remote, so either an iPod or a new device.
It would make a lot of sense if Apple isn't going to do a Mac Pro Mini to do a HDMI wireless instead. And because your Mac is likely to be in another room (target audience being the iMac) they need a wireless (non-line of sight) remote, so either an iPod or a new device.
DavidLeblond said:I'm hoping for iMacs because I could care less about downloading Movies. Hell the only TV I download are the free eps. Unless you can get me 5.1 surround, DVD quality for a monthly fee that is less than Netflix... well, Netflix is still king to me.
Especially since DVDs ar easier to copy than these files would ever be. Not that i copy DVD's or anything.
iJawn108 said:I predict the following:
iTunes Movie Store with... 1080 HD movie downloads.
Updated Cinema Displays.
New Airport Extreme with 802.11n (for streaming the said Movies wirelessly)
iPod updates, either slightly modified nano(new cases+more compacity) and/or updated video iPods with higher compacity for said HD movies.
I really do think theywill be available in 1080, and that will be a very big deal.
blueray? hd dvd? who cares i can just get them on itunes.
Well, an 8 meg connection is adequate to stream the HD trailers in 720p. I honestly don't think that Apple would bother offering the movies in any higher quality, as the codec scales nicely, and most HD sets are 720p or just that ED crap. When a set says 1080i on the side it usually means that it can decode a 1080i signal, not that it can display it. If you have a 1080i capable TV, you'll know it cause your ass will hurt much more than the guy who buys the 720p set.
A lot of things have to go right for me to be impressed tomorrow.
Worst case scenario IMHO, full length movies at the current resolution for $9.99 and you can watch them on your new 24-inch iMac! Bleh. I hope I'm wrong. Steve said it once and it's still true. Nobody wants to watch TV on their computer
Best case scenario, full length movies in Hi-Def at a monthly subscription fee that can be streamed wirelessly with the new Airport HD to my Hi-Def television. Should be interesting either way.
Worst case scenario IMHO, full length movies at the current resolution for $9.99 and you can watch them on your new 24-inch iMac! Bleh. I hope I'm wrong. Steve said it once and it's still true. Nobody wants to watch TV on their computer
Best case scenario, full length movies in Hi-Def at a monthly subscription fee that can be streamed wirelessly with the new Airport HD to my Hi-Def television. Should be interesting either way.
Since we are on the eve of the announcement, I thought I'd give my 2 cents.
I hoping for downloadable movies to own at either $9.99 or $14.99 and in high definition. It might be in 720P as a download service just can't compete with Netflix or walking to your friendly neighbourhood DVD rental store. And because the movies are in H.264, the download of HD movies should not take any more time than regular DVD, although if they released movies in 480P, it wouldn't be too bad, either, although with DRM and the time to download, doesn't make it competitive against DVD, plus you don't get the fancy packaging or the hard-disc copy.
I hoping for downloadable movies to own at either $9.99 or $14.99 and in high definition. It might be in 720P as a download service just can't compete with Netflix or walking to your friendly neighbourhood DVD rental store. And because the movies are in H.264, the download of HD movies should not take any more time than regular DVD, although if they released movies in 480P, it wouldn't be too bad, either, although with DRM and the time to download, doesn't make it competitive against DVD, plus you don't get the fancy packaging or the hard-disc copy.
How many movies a month do you watch?! $14.99 * 10 pays my cable bill with internet includedspicyapple said:
this is great were going to be able to control front row with our new touch screen ipods. apple has kept this "close to the chest" because it involves leapord, core animation and the new front row. they even showed it to us when demoing core animation. they had all the data for the floating songs right there while they were just raining down in the background. think about it you could see a what you streamed to the tv on the ipod and touch albums or dvd covers floating in the library. hope bluetooth is enough for that seems the movie dongle transef speeds are going to be fast. hope they do release a mac mini tubeport package too.
were going to be able to control front row with our new touch screen ipods. apple has kept this "close to the chest" because it involves leapord, core animation and the new front row. they even showed it to us when demoing core animation. they had all the data for the floating songs right there while they were just raining down in the background. think about it you could see a what you streamed to the tv on the ipod and touch albums or dvd covers floating in the library. hope bluetooth is enough for that seems the movie dongle transef speeds are going to be fast. hope they do release a mac mini tubeport package too.