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The title of this rumor scared me at first, but then I really thought about it. :p As long as we have a recorded video of the event when it's finished, then I am happy. :D
 
the sad part is i have to walk around school that day, checking at lunch and such... pretending like it is a normal day, when for us mac geeks, it is a worldwide holiday.
 
The question I have is, should I do the usual and take the gossip and news as it comes, or should I wait until they have the quicktime stream up and watch it without any prior info, so I can get the full experience.

...

meh.
 
supergod said:
The question I have is, should I do the usual and take the gossip and news as it comes, or should I wait until they have the quicktime stream up and watch it without any prior info, so I can get the full experience.

...

meh.

I am very tempted to watch only the stream before reading any articles... but it's so hard to resist! :(
 
Boooo!

Wonder if they'll disable wifi and cell phone signals like they did in the last special event...
 
MacRumoron said:
why do u people have to watch it live anyway????
Because we're MacRumorites, MacRumorers, or MacRumorons like yourself. :D

The Keynote, as you probably are well aware, is like the Pilgrimage for us.

Here's to the Crazy Ones
 
MacRumoron said:
why do u people have to watch it live anyway????
People don't have to watch it live, as fun as it is. However, from a business perspective, I would think that Apple should do the streaming. Yes, they can charge through iTunes to recoup the losses from the broadcast, but let's not forget about the people that, while watching the stream live, will say, OOOOOOh, i need to buy this right now and then go do it (assuming the products are already updated on the applestore site). They could induce some impulse buying with the live stream. Then again, these "impulse buyers" will probably be buying a new mac regardless of live stream. But, it's a possibility...
 
arn said:
servers are in good shape, and we'll use our new AJAX-enabled broadcast system. http://www.macrumorslive.com/about/

arn
ooooOOOOoooo... pretty!

I... kinda... think I can wait a few hours - up to 24! I've been bought up in England, we're used to waiting 6 months for American TV.... even now, when I download everything I normally get stuff a day late...
 
It doesn't matter to me, I'll be in school at the time of the keynote. :(
Hopefully the website will be updated by Lunch time.

I just hope Apple will put the video up after the keynote, last special event (Powermacs & Powerbooks & Aperture), they didn't have anything.
 
Lacero said:
I wouldn't mind buying the keynote for $3 off iTMS if it were at least 640x360 and available immediately after the event. I'm even willing to pay $5 for it if it means fewer people will buy thus making the downloads faster. [...] Apple should look into this.

Apple should not look into this. Apple should just beef up their streaming capabilities for whenever the keynote is put online.

Apple's not exactly poor these days, and the expense would be worth it I'm sure. People end up (impulse) buying things after watching the keynote because Steve is a terrific speaker/salesman.

Keep the keynote freely available to everyone!

EDIT: And thanks in advance to Macrumors for covering the event live, hope the new webcast system works out well!
 
Stella said:
Boooo!

Wonder if they'll disable wifi and cell phone signals like they did in the last special event...

From what I understand they didn't disable it. They just picked the world's worst location for cell reception. Going to be kinda hard to do this at a convention center. :D Actually I think its illegal. Anyone? :confused:
At any rate worse case: every 5 minutes someone has a 2 way out into the hall with someone inside and they radio the info in. :D This time everyone will be prepared considering the potential news.
 
aafuss1 said:
Me too-the keynote streams always did that to me as well.
I'm surprised you guys had problems. I watched my first in 2000 and have never had any drop out or stalling problems. Perhaps it was because I always watched at my uni using their broadband connection - it was probably better up to the task than you're average consumer connection at the time.

When I was first switching it was one of the first things that impressed me on how superior Quicktime was over Windows Media Player and RealPlayer.
 
I guess we'll leave our hopes to some guy who will sjow up with a camera during the keynote and publish the whole thing the next day to some server or whatever, or even distribute the capture!!
Come on guys whos gonna do it?
 
autrefois said:
Apple should not look into this. Apple should just beef up their streaming capabilities for whenever the keynote is put online.

Apple's not exactly poor these days, and the expense would be worth it I'm sure. People end up (impulse) buying things after watching the keynote because Steve is a terrific speaker/salesman.

Keep the keynote freely available to everyone!

EDIT: And thanks in advance to Macrumors for covering the event live, hope the new webcast system works out well!

Normally I'd let this slide because I’m tired and its 1AM but I can't resist. . .so if they can really afford it please fill in the blanks. . .

W * (X * Y) = Z

W = cost per MB
X = Number of MB per connection
Y = Number of total active connection for the most anticipated MacWorld in recent history.



Not trying to be a smart***, its too early in the morning for that, but we really don't know how many people would tune in. Considering that just about every Mac site gets totally slammed every Macworld and those are "NORMAL" Apple events on normal servers dropping text pages. I'd rather not comprehend the bandwidth needed for what? 20MB-ish for an hour? :confused: I don’t think it’s unwarranted to give Apple a LITTLE slack esp considering they are probably spending that coffer hand over fist with R&D development for the x86 Macs. Meeting them halfway with $3.00 or whatever it costs wouldn't be bad considering people are buying $2 movies in droves
 
Lacero said:
Because we're MacRumorites, MacRumorers, or MacRumorons like yourself. :D

The Keynote, as you probably are well aware, is like the Pilgrimage for us.

Here's to the Crazy Ones

Macrumourmongers.

Can't wait, less than a week now...
 
They had a live stream a few years ago, when Steve introduced the 12" and 17" powerbooks. Wow, I guess that was already three years ago though. Time sure does fly.

I'm going to keep my fingers crossed for a live stream anyway. I find it exciting to watch the announcements in real-time (plus I hate having to wait till after the keynote to watch it).
 
SiliconAddict said:
Normally I'd let this slide because I’m tired and its 1AM but I can't resist. . .so if they can really afford it please fill in the blanks. . .

W * (X * Y) = Z

W = cost per MB
X = Number of MB per connection
Y = Number of total active connection for the most anticipated MacWorld in recent history.



Not trying to be a smart***, its too early in the morning for that, but we really don't know how many people would tune in. Considering that just about every Mac site gets totally slammed every Macworld and those are "NORMAL" Apple events on normal servers dropping text pages. I'd rather not comprehend the bandwidth needed for what? 20MB-ish for an hour? :confused: I don’t think it’s unwarranted to give Apple a LITTLE slack esp considering they are probably spending that coffer hand over fist with R&D development for the x86 Macs. Meeting them halfway with $3.00 or whatever it costs wouldn't be bad considering people are buying $2 movies in droves

it's insane how much it costs. doing research for my own site you pay around $2.50 a viewer for bandwidth given a 256 kbps stream... Apple certainly gets it cheaper, but it's still expensive.

by the way, so you can check my math... I'm estimating based on $10 000 a month for a gigabit ethernet internet connection that can host ~4000 simultaneous viewers. and that's a conservative price.
 
Northing new, then.
Didn't get my hopes up.

Can't wait for it, though!
Refreshing every single Mac-addict site every freaking second filling the Safari screen with all those tabs.... trying to find the one with the updates first.

Usually got my iChat busy with fellow Mac-idiots who all are copy-pasting the same tekst from the various sites :D

6 nights to go....
 
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