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New iPod Next Week?

Apple Smartphone??

no more ipod mutations please Steve...

new macs not yet due...

it HAS to be an Apple Smartphone, wi-fi/airport ready, 3G, iLife ready, etc etc


something to rival the HTC Universal??


Now that would be something! 🙂
 
Digipimp said:
Is everyone still forgetting the damn red movie curtain and no updates to the videos on iTunes? There has to be something movie related or video related
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yeah the new powermacs have new higher resolution displays, which is just great for creating and watching hd movies 😉
 
robbieduncan said:
Just to make sure: you mean H.264 right? Whilst your iBook cannot play it back using it's general purpose CPU there is no reason that a custom hardware chip could not play it back on an iPod. I remember back in 1996 or so that custom boards for MPEG playback were quite popular as the CPUs at the time struggled.
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Yes, of course I do... 😱

I'll edit my other post in shame... 😉

Edit: But I'm still skeptical about a CPU with low enough power consumption to go into an iPod that is powerful enough to run H.264. 😉
 
iAlan said:
The announcement is being made in DENMARK!!!

😀 😀 😀
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Is that where the California Theater is?

Seriously...the curtains? Is it just a ploy? I mean, people really looked into the jeans on the last invite a little too much. It seems obvious that it will be a movie-related event. But are we actually just overanalyzing here?

Squire
 
GB`S

Eastend said:
Me thinks you spoke too soon. I have over 170 GB of music and it is growing.

Brian
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Brian san. Honto?
Ooki!

ah okay, for I too have a ` few gigs` 🙂 that is samples alone.
mp3?

Konbanwa.
 
sjo said:
yeah the new powermacs have new higher resolution displays, which is just great for creating and watching hd movies 😉
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Yeah, and if it's 3 Ghz or Dual core, like somebody else said on another thread, then it will deserve a red curtain.

Brian
 
robbieduncan said:
Just to make sure: you mean H.264 right? Whilst your iBook cannot play it back using it's general purpose CPU ...
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Now I'm confused. I don't know much about video coding & decoding so I need some help understanding this.

I was under the impression that it was HD using H264 that was the problem, not H264 itself - and that most current h/w can decode H264 on lower resolutions.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Steve
 
iMeowbot said:
They double as portable hard drives, and the FireWire models are bootable too. That's handy for metropolitan area sneakernets and lots of other things.
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amen.

the only way to fly at times. `less you have to have your compete suite with you always - whatever that may be for you.
 
Ummmmm.. So Apple is going to release an 80GB iPod to store music?

And pictures? With the 25000 Picture limit, and most people not having anywhere near 75GBs of music, what the hell will you put on there?

Maybe later on today, ThinkSecret will say, okay so we have heard that the video iPod will happen..

I personally don't think there will be a video iPod. There has to be something else that the iPod does though.. Like several others before me, they can't have a media event for an "update"
 
Eastend said:
Yeah, and if it's 3 Ghz or Dual core, like somebody else said on another thread, then it will deserve a red curtain.

Brian
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Well if it is a new powerbook, it's gonna be the last ("one more") g4 powerbook generation before those go behind the curtains...
 
animefan_1 said:
The G4 can't support DDR2 memory (and I can't see any necessity for it with a pathetic 200 MHz Bus). I don't know why TS thinks it's going to happen.
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Memory-support is determined by the chipset, not the CPU (unless the memory-controller is on die). The DDR2 consumes less power than DDR does, so it would offer a benefit.
 
kiwi-in-uk said:
Now I'm confused. I don't know much about video coding & decoding so I need some help understanding this.

I was under the impression that it was HD using H264 that was the problem, not H264 itself - and that most current h/w can decode H264 on lower resolutions.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Steve
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No, You're correct. H.264 is highly scaleable, so the output resolution of a video iPod would more than likely not be HD. H.264 plays fine on older hardware. It's just once you start talking about decoding Huge HD streams, where even the most powerful of processors struggle. The Sony PSP in it's current incarnation plays H.264 just fine...
 
sjo said:
Well if it is a new powerbook, it's gonna be the last ("one more") g4 powerbook generation before those go behind the curtains...
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I agree on that one. There will not be anymore room left for another PPC PowerBook, the time will have run out on it.

Brian
 
Mitch1984 said:
Who on earth needs an 80GB iPod, unless your using it for a portable drive.
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You just answered your question 😉. And instead of using mp3/AAC, what about using lossless encoding? That would eat lots more HD-space.
 
toneloco2881 said:
No, You're correct. H.264 is highly scaleable, so the output resolution of a video iPod would more than likely not be HD. H.264 plays fine on older hardware. It's just once you start talking about decoding Huge HD streams, where even the most powerful of processors struggle. The Sony PSP in it's current incarnation plays H.264 just fine...
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That's great - thanks.

OK, now I can see where a video iPod would appeal to me. I don't have any real interest in movies or music videos, but I do Board presentations and dabble with animations and iDVD.

A video iPod with TV output would be a very convenient way of carrying around both presentations and hobby videos - showing them on the device's screen, on a TV, or through a projector. Along with some music and backup data. A lot more convenient than my PB, and presumably with a longer battery life.

Edit: and combine it with a micro speaker set / dock (Bose or similar) would be a very cool desktop machine and ideal for my purposes.
 
Shattering Fast said:
You're just asking for an ear-full from the people with larger music libraries.
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Well almost, I suppose I want a answer in some form. But not an argument.
Anyone know how many songs an 80GB iPod would hold.

I could do with a 10GB as I have nearly 5GB of music and could use the others for my contacts, photos and calendars.
Paying for 20GB iPod and not needing half of it. Well to sum that up, i'd be paying for an extra 10GB i don't need.

Or a 6GB Nano would be great 🙂
 
just waiting for steve to say: "well, we thought this about flash players too, at first..." vPod- We NEED you!!!! 😛
 
kiwi-in-uk said:
Now I'm confused. I don't know much about video coding & decoding so I need some help understanding this.

I was under the impression that it was HD using H264 that was the problem, not H264 itself - and that most current h/w can decode H264 on lower resolutions.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Steve
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You're not wrong. Higher bit-rate H.264 decoding (today) needs faster CPUs. The GPUs are adding hardware acceleration for H.264 though...

Edit: overlapped. toneloco2881 said it all first...
 
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