QuickTime Stream of iPhone 3.0 Media Event Available

[Otaviano]

Ass is a mule/donkey hybrid.

Arse would have been a better term to have used

EDIT: I jailbroke my phone ages ago, and changed the carrier to say "iPhone" using "makeitmine" and it is STILL there, in 3.0 even though I am not jailbroken now!

So I take it the pwange hack carries on to 3.0?

Nice!

 

[ravenblue]

Why do they bother with the Stream?

Okay, about Apple's long-standing tradition of posting a quicktime stream after a special event. Why do they bother? Does anyone actually get to see this video, cos this thread seems to indicate that many, if not most, cannot see it at all, at least not until days after when enough people have lost interest.

Clearly Apple do not care enough to distribute the video adequately on load-balanced servers or Akamai or whatever. They seem content to let people click on it and watch it stop and start and be entertained by all the encoding artifacts.

I would love to know why they do this with such consistency, as though they are building up as much negative publicity about the Quicktime product line as they can manage.

 

[leodavinci0]

Seems that "fixed text" apps use tap-and-hold, while "editable text" gets double-tap.

I think this is worth repeating here, since I was wondering why the difference existed.

 

[twoodcc]

i need to watch this soon, maybe this weekend

 

[automan98]

There's always something exciting about an Apple event - even without Jobs.

 

[MacAndy74]

Excellent event, and it's even better now, it's up in high res on iTunes

 

[Breckenridge]

Where Is The Video Recording

in my line of work I have to have a video camera in my phone. I've been waiting for apple to do this darn implementation for 2 years now. Where is the wisdom in not allowing video recording on a the, so called, most advanced phone phone?

 

[iShak]

this is the first quicktime stream from an Apple event that I have no urge to sit through and watch. So just tell me, was Scott good? I really hope he was!

 

[MrCrowbar]

in my line of work I have to have a video camera in my phone. I've been waiting for apple to do this darn implementation for 2 years now. Where is the wisdom in not allowing video recording on a the, so called, most advanced phone phone?

Might be for 2 reasons:
- The camera in the current iPhone is pretty bad, has low framerate and the CMOS sensor sweep (horizontal movement results in skewed object on picture) is very noticable. This does not live up to Apple's high standard. Maybe the next iPhone version will have a significantly better camera.
- The iPhone has little RAM so the video is stored on the Main, Flash Memory. Lifetime of that kind of flash memory is limited and recording lots of video might kill the storage hardware faster than you'd like. Usual camera phones have a different kind of internal memory and use replaceable memory cards for most of the data. The next iPhone might use a different or just improved kind of Flash memory to handle lots of write cycles that come with video recording.

I tried out most of those video recording apps and they're pretty disappointing, even on maximum settings. I'd much rather have an attachment for the 30-pin connector that has the camera and a SD card slot and is controlled and powered via the iPhone. The Canon Powershot interface would work pretty well on iPhone actually.