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WWDC's Keynote to be Broadcast via Satellite

Also, the satellite stream is AUDIO only and in GERMAN.

So unless TechTV gets it we are all hitting the refresh button next week.
 
tech tv

it seems like tech tv might is pretty involved in the rumor scene. they just showed macrumors.com on 'screensavers' and talked about the 970...hmmm.
 
Re: Re: UK U HELP?

Originally posted by jettredmont
Folks, "Digital" satellite subscribers (myself included) will NOT be receiving this (barring unannounced rebroadcasts). Digital satellite TV works on a single-satellite system (ie, your dish is always pointed to one satellite ... yes, there is more than one satellite up there but you can't just point your dish at any arbitrary satellite position and expect to get anything) and only with compressed digital streams.

This is being broadcast on the older analog satellite system. That's those big 6-foot-wide (2m for the rest of you) dishes you see in some peoples' back yards and on the top of buildings. This is 100% incompatible with all digital satellite equipment.

The following services are a quick sample of digital services that will not be seeing the keynote (unless MSNBC or CNN or someone decides to broadcast it):

DirecTV
Dish Networks
SKY Digital
Any Digital or Analog Cable
Over-The-Air Antenna

If you have any of these, this article does not apply to you. If you don't have a honkin' huge white round thing in your yard or caving in your roof, this does not apply to you.

End Public Service Announcement.
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Thanks! I'm glad I've learnt something today! It's been one of those days! :eek:
 
Re: WWDC's Keynote to be Broadcast via Satellite

Originally posted by Macrumors
The keynote begins at 10am PST.
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Not that it matters too much, but shouldn't that be 10am PDT (not PST)?

For places that do not go on daylight savings time, if they tune in at 10am PST (UTC-8), they will miss the first hour of the keynote. PDT is UTC-7.
 
Originally posted by Kid Red
Also, the satellite stream is AUDIO only and in GERMAN.
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Of course, this stream will not be in German. How should this work? They are sending an audio stream of a translation??? No, no, no, it's the official audio stream in English.
 
Reasons for no webcast

1. There are a lot of developers who paid a lot of money to go to WWDC. Part of that package is the keynote. To say to these people "well, now everyone will get to see the keynote" would tick a lot of people off. Yeah, they go to WWDC for other reasons, but it still wouldn't be fair.

2. Does anybody honestly believe that sales will suffer because it's not webcast? We have all heard how Apple is trying to play down announcements (i.e. no MacWorld). No other company announces product with so much fanfair. The product will be announced, and everyone will hear about it on the news or read about it on a website. A webcast is nice, but it's probably not a priority for Apple.
 
Originally posted by NNO-Stephen
well crap, we dont get Tech TV on cable here. Cox Communications sucks at getting channels...
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I get Tech TV on Cox Communications here in California. It is on the digital cable tier.
 
Re: Reasons for no webcast

Originally posted by dbenesch
1. There are a lot of developers who paid a lot of money to go to WWDC. Part of that package is the keynote. To say to these people "well, now everyone will get to see the keynote" would tick a lot of people off. Yeah, they go to WWDC for other reasons, but it still wouldn't be fair.

2. Does anybody honestly believe that sales will suffer because it's not webcast? We have all heard how Apple is trying to play down announcements (i.e. no MacWorld). No other company announces product with so much fanfair. The product will be announced, and everyone will hear about it on the news or read about it on a website. A webcast is nice, but it's probably not a priority for Apple.
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The above has Nothing to do with apple's decision to stream this or not! Absolutely none.
 
Re: Re: WWDC's Keynote to be Broadcast via Satellite

Originally posted by JoeRadar
Not that it matters too much, but shouldn't that be 10am PDT (not PST)?
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I'm glad that somebody else saw that too. Yes, it's 1700 hours UTC. This is what happens when you misuse local time zones instead of using the standard UTC - you can easily get confused about which time zones are where and you might miss something important like the Steve Jobs keynote!

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=224
 
Re: Re: Reasons for no webcast

Originally posted by zoozx
The above has Nothing what so ever with apple decision to stream this or not! Absolutely none.
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Why do you say that? What is *your* logic behind Apple's decision not to webcast?

Give us a reason, not just bad grammar.
 
Ouch bad grammer, heaven forbid. That happens when you split your brain and talk on the phone and type at the same time.
Developers give a rats ass about seeing that stuff "first", we don't care. The keynote is not what WWDC is about for us.
 
Originally posted by zoozx
Ouch bad grammer, heaven forbid. That happens when you split your brain and talk on the phone and type at the same time.
Developers give a rats ass about seeing that stuff "first", we don't care. The keynote is not what WWDC is about for us.
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So I'll ask the same question again. Why do *you* think Apple's not webcasting the keynote.
 
Originally posted by rDLr
I get Tech TV on Cox Communications here in California. It is on the digital cable tier.
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yeah but i dont got digital cable... it would suck to get 4 recievers because we got cable in 4 rooms at my house.
 
tech tv wont be broadcasting it. they havet done it for the pas year and a half. because everytime they did they would always bash the appple products and didnt look good for apple. thats why they have done the mpeg4 webcast from now on.

iJon
 
what about retransmission?

What about all the Apple stores who will be showing the keynote in their theaters?

BTW: this is my first post on here, though i have been a spymacer for some time by the same name
 
Sports Bars

Do US "sports bars" tend to have this type of receiver anymore? If so, maybe we can get enough people together in some cities to have some mac happy hours at a sports bar willing to tune in. I'm sure there's nothing competing on the air at 10am-1pm.
 
Its going to rock

I didn't realize that it is such a big event that so many universities are tuning in tho this. From macnn :

The University of Wisconsin is hosting Steve Jobs' keynote at WWDC 2003 live in an auditorium at the Pyle Center in Madison, WI. The School of Information at the University of Michigan will also be hosting live feed of Steve Jobs' keynote from WWDC. The event is open to the public and will take place 1:00-3:00 PM EST in room #311 West Hall (550 East University, Ann Arbor, MI). Several Apple Stores will also carry a live feed of the keynote, although it is unclear whether it will be available at all stores. Other locations hosting the keynote include:


SIGMAC, the Macintosh User Group at Case Western Reserve University, has arranged for a live feed of the satellite broadcast on the CWRU campus, Baker building, room L5 (lower level).
University of Central Florida (no details offered)
Ohio University (Athens, OH) will also offer the Apple WWDC satellite broadcast on its campus cable TV network CATVision. Viewers anywhere on campus can tune to channel 64 to see the event live.


Link
 
Live coverage?

"Live WWDC Coverage
This coming Monday, MacMerc will be giving the Mac web live coverage of the WWDC Keynote. Starting a few minutes before 10AM PST and lasting throughout the entire speech, we'll be updating nearly every minute. Please come join us. If you live in the Tampa, FL area, come out to the Apple store and say hi."

Not sure if that is a broadcast or just updates. You can decide for yourself MacMerc.com
 
Originally posted by whoami
lets get a confirmation from tech tv on this one! i want to watch too!
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Don't know if anyone posted about this or not, but here is the reply I got from TechTV:

We have been unable to get permission to broadcast the keynote but will of
course cover the event.

------------ Previous Message from Apache User <apache@techtv.com> on
06/18/2003 08:31:57 PM ----------


To: Anonymous Feedback/Techtvcorp@Techtvcorp
cc:
Subject: Question for Other


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This is data sent from the form at:
http://cgi.techtv.com/memberservices?view=feedback
from remote host: at Wed Jun 18 17:31:57 2003
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1. Feedback
Do you have any plans to broadcast the Apple WWDC Keynote on Monday? There are a lot of people that would appreciate this and it looks as if it will be a big announcement session. Thank you!
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i think im more surprised that people are still asking if tech tv is gonna do it, i mean come on, they havent done it in forever and we all know why, its hardly a mac station and they hardly ever made the keynotes look good.

iJon
 
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