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Macworld Keynote at Apple Stores

Posted by pudge on from the drive-somewhere-to-watch-tv dept.

iAryeh writes "I was recently at the Apple Store in Cincinnati and they were passing out flyers that said: 'You're invited to join us at the Apple Store to view the keynote presentation by Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs.' I guess they are going to present this on the large screen television. This sounds like a better idea than watching the small stream from QuickTime." Apparently it won't be on TechTV this time around, which is mostly just fine with me, since they didn't show it live anyway, but instead paused the keynote for commercials (understandable) and commentary (totally incomprehensible).

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  1. Helpful Link by Evro · · Score: 2, Informative

    A somewhat helpful link would be the list of Apple retail stores. Looks like the one near me opens Thursday.

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  2. Why Wait? by usr122122121 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Why wait when you can just read about what Steve will say beforehand in Time Magazine?

    Whoops. Time warp.

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  3. How will it be broadcast? by foniksonik · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If it's not on TechTV then how will it be broadcast to the Apple Stores? Will they use Quicktime 6/MPG4 or does every Apple have a closed circuit link to some here-to-fore unknown Apple fibre link?

    Any ideas? If they don't use the QT6 streaming server with a dedicated server for each Store what are good alternative technologies for this sort of broadcast/multi-cast/point-to-point 'single-cast'?

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    1. Re:How will it be broadcast? by MonaXier · · Score: 3, Informative

      Presumably, they will use the satellite broadcast. More info here. Also, they may be doing broadcasts elsewhere - check apple events in your area. For example, up here (Vancouver, Canada) they will do a delayed broadcast at a university campus downtown, as they have for quite a few MacWorlds already.

  4. check your local university by sketchkid · · Score: 2, Informative
    there's was an ad in this week's issue of our newspaper here at Florida State and it says

    MacWorld NY
    Keynote Address
    Wed. July, 17th
    9:30 am

    Student Life Theatre


    so its sounds like theyre going to broadcast the keynote address at our theater. maybe your local university is doing the same thing
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  5. All of them? by 90XDoubleSide · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The keynote starts a 7AM mountain time and 6AM pacific time (move back to Chicago, damnit ;). Are the stores here going to open early or is the theater thing only on the east coast (I don't remember exactly when they open, but I know I was listening to the mall's muzak loop for the 35th time and freezing my ass off well after sunrise at the store opening). I guess they can show rebroadcasts all day. I'm not gonna make it out to a store anyways; it's going to be hard enough to drag myself out of bed and over to my computer that early, let alone drive 20 mins to the Aspen Grove store!

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  6. MPEG-4 stream is great by extra88 · · Score: 2

    If you've tried to watch a QuickTime stream of MacWorld keynotes in the past, you know the quality generally sucks.

    I'm watching the MPEG-4 stream right now and it's great.

    http://stream.apple.akadns.net/