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Apple Announcement Broadcast Live
ignipotentis writes "Apparently Apple's 'music to your ears' announcement will be broadcast live. I'm a bit confused by this, however I hope someone will pick this up and netcast it perhaps?" Apple usually broadcasts these things on satellites, so they can be picked up in the Apple stores etc.; the question is, will Apple broadcast it in QuickTime, will TechTV pick it up?
They're announcing bankruptcy and pulling out while they still can. Not too difficult to figure out. They've been dieing for quite some time.
People, don't get worked up over the Apple Hype Machine. It's partly fed by apple with falsities to help it grow, continued by the wild imaginations of the rumor press fascination with Apple, then replayed on more credible news sites. It happens time and time again
Watching it isn't bad, but expecting it to be something truly mindblowing is to set yourself up for a letdown.
Apple usually shows their MacWorld keynotes, and sometimes other events, via QuickTime Streaming Server from their own website. Check Apple's Quicktime Site for updates, I would think. That or hotnews.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. (Einstein)
Yeah, see, people who don't spend all day trying to fiddle with config files on Linux have things like "leisure time". In that time you can choose to do things besides attempt to build libfrobber-0.0.1alpha from source. One of those things is called "watching television", where someone sends pictures to a display box in your home. It's a lot like downloading pirated dvd's off the internet, but without having to recompile mplayer source to see it.
Anyway, this technique is usually referred to as "Broadcasting".
I hope this helps.
it's an announcement so big that no website could handle the traffic it will generate.
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
Pudged Cleared up my confusion. My main issue was the release of coordinates to the sattalite braodcast. I was un-aware of the Apple stores picking up this broadcast individually. Sorry for not being clear.
Don't waste time... procrastinate now!
This event is primarily targeted at the media, Apple Retail stores, and Apple corporate offices around the country. It's not like Apple thinks people are just going to pull out their 12 foot C-band dish and start watching this; it wasn't intended to be a "public" or webcast event (in fact, the original release was likely intended to be a Media Alert release and not a full blown public press release, as it was pulled from Apple's press release page).
That said, the University of Wisconsin - Madison will be hosting the event live at the Pyle Center. It will be open to the public. For details, see:
04.28.2003 Apple Media Event Coverage
Please, TechTV hasn't aired anything live since the days of the original iMac. When was that? Back in '97? They weren't even TechTV back then, remember the days of ZDTV? Ziff-Davis kept them to their roots, C|Net made them more popular but at a cost. I still remember actually getting replies on the air from Leo Laporte, try getting your e-mail read on the air now. LOL
(I swore I would never write like that, but I couldn't resist.)
Here are the satelite channels to watch the broadcast. Unfortunately, they are not available in Europe.
Ku-band
Telstar 5/Transponder: 25 K
Orbital Slot: 97 degrees west
Uplink Frequency: 14444.0 MHz
Downlink Frequency: 12144.0 MHz
Polarity: Vertical down
Audio subcarriers: 6.2 and 6.8
C-band
Galaxy 3C/Transponder 1 C
Orbital Slot: 95 degrees west
Uplink Frequency: 5945 MHz
Downlink Polarity: Horizontal down
Downlink Frequency: 3720 MHz
Audio subcarriers: 6.2 and 6.8
As people have said, the Apple Stores will be able to pick this up, but also a tv channel (such as TechTV) could if they so desire. If you want information about the exact details of the webcast, they can be found at here, this way only major news stations can pick the signal up, not your average consumer. There is a possibility that Apple would do a webcast, and I would be supprised if they didn't, but usually they would have posted a link on their Quicktime site a lot earlier.
I'm just picturing Gore singing Linkin Park...
This is the best thread ever!
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
What Steve Jobs will announce next week, live by satellite across the world, is a 17" iPod. It's likely to have 32G of storage space, an increase of 54% over the current highest capacity model, and a faster CPU so that, for example, it will be able to play more than one MP3 at once.
But the most exciting innovation will be the huge, 17", widescreen LCD display that'll replace the iPod's current tiny little window. This will make editing playlists easier, no more crammed display, and will allow the iPod to show screen effects in tune with the music (another use for the 1GHz G4 that'll be in every unit.)
And, interestingly, despite it being much more expensive to produce than current iPods, it'll follow the pattern currently of the next model being $100 more expensive, wieghing in at $599. Apple will, however, be selling matching trousers with 17" pockets for $1299.
I hope it's a success.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
No, there will be no webcast, only the sat broadcast.
Think of the money they'll save!
The enemy will run like fraid'ie kittens from the brutal force of the AHM and High Ruler Job's most powerful reality distortion field machine, Allah be bathed. They will withdraw into their Walmart brand dickies and die upon the Capuccino gates of Cupertino, God willing.
You mean like the GeForce 4, that was for sale in Power Macs before nVidia had even announced them?
Has anyone considered that the news might be about osx.3? feature freeze is about a week away, and still no press release or any official news about this... Though music to you ears does sound like somthing different, its still a posibility...
...seeing how this is being televised and all...
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Interestingly enough, various scientific studies have been conducted upon wide cross-sections of the male H. Sapiens population to determine the psychological motivations behind irrational, sometimes violent anti-homosexual behavior, also known as fag bashing in common colloquial American English.
A vast majority of these studies have returned an all but irrefutable stream of evidence - that most all fag bashers are in fact harboring latent homosexual urges - and instead of directing the suppression of those urges solely upon themselves, project said suppression upon others.
It's only logical to presume that the evidence that's been returned can be extended to incorporate those who deride Macintosh users as being "Homosexuals" on online forums and billboard systems. Not only are these people likely harboring latent homosexual urges themselves, but a latent desire to use or adopt the Macintosh platform as well.
Here's the tie-in.
m l Unfortunately CERN no longer supports the historical site. Note from this era too, the least recently modified web page we know of, last changed Tue, 13 Nov 1990 15:17:00 GMT (though the URI changed.)
From: http://www.w3.org/History.html
1990
September
Mike Sendall, Tim's boss, Oks the purchase of a NeXT cube, and allows Tim to go ahead and write a global hypertext system.
October
Tim starts work on a hypertext GUI browser+editor using the NeXTStep development environment. He makes up "WorldWideWeb" as a name for the program. (See the first browser screenshot) "World Wide Web" as a name for the project (over Information Mesh, Mine of Information, and Information Mine).
Project original proposal reformulated with encouragement from CN and ECP divisional management. Robert Cailliau (ECP) joins and is co-author of new version.
November
Initial WorldWideWeb program development continues on the NeXT (TBL) . This was a "what you see is what you get" (wysiwyg) browser/editor with direct inline creation of links. The first web server was nxoc01.cern.ch, later called info.cern.ch, and the first web page http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.ht
Macs rule, as we all know. Rumors blow. So enough already with the speculation! Wait for the broadcast, and get it from the big man himself.
the question is, will Apple broadcast it in QuickTime, will TechTV pick it up?
Of course TechTV will pick it up. The Screensavers know everything! I hope Leo Laporte didn't hear you say that! And I'm sure someone will get it out there in Quicktime. Unless, of course, if whacking QT is what this broadcast is all about. But I don't want to start any rumors.
Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.
OK, I've got to tell you: THAT was funny. Two jokes in one, and it took me just long enough to finish chuckling about the first (the invention claim) to begin to belly laugh at the second (what he invented).
I mean, I hate to pick apart a joke, but that was really, really funny. I wish I had moderator credits...
Unless Henry Mancini is playing while Jobs announces OS X 10.3, code-named "Pink Panther," I think the announcement will be about the music service. They already showed their hand with their press teaser.
"Form should follow function...unless it's just plain ugly."
There must be glitch in the Slashdot software, because your post somehow got placed in this thread by accident.
Hi,
I'm from germany and responsible for a mac-magazine. In europe there is no satelite broadcast for the special presentation. You could earn some money if YOU help us to offer an audio broadcast via Quicktime stream.
We're trying to find someone who could hold a telephone, or a microfone or even a DV-Cam in front of a TV, so that the signal can be transferred to europe. We pay for everything. We would pay an additional fee of hundred dollars for the lucky person who helped us.
Having Steve Jobs presenting something crazy and not having the chance to receive the broadcast would be horrible, so maybe YOU could help us. If that is the case, mail to joerndyck@mac.com
I know this mail is a bit strange.
Thank you,
Joern
http://www.mac-tv.de
does TechTV use the micros~1 windows media player format? Hell, even the video clip for building a hard disk switcher for easy dual-booting uses WMP!!
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
http://www.spymac.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo= 27110
There apears to be some confusion over when the announcment is - I've seen 3pm gmt mentioned. So here're the times depending on where you are:
PDT: 1000 (that's what the article says)
EDT: 1300
GMT: 1600
BST: 1700
Hope that makes it clear for those of you in the UK.
Bob
www.macrumors.com seems to have a link to the webcast. I won't post it directly, if you want to watch you'll have to click a little ;)
http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/apr/moscone/apr 28_28_56_100_250_ref.mov!
Come to the University of Mars! Classes starting soon!
Oh my god, here is the Apple zealot from the University of Wisconsin, Madison-fucking loser fat sexless live at home pay no taxes poor career "academic" idiot fucking sputtering and eructating complete bullshit fro his mouth about apple.
Get a fucking life. Steve Jobs' stupid theif mug was on the cover of the Wall Street Journal which was talking about apple LANGUISHING, and how he has to buy out movie studios ans shit to distract shareholders from the fact - Apple is fucking doing really shitty.
So long, and thanks for all the laughs, losers.
Fuckin loser.
So, this was the announcement. Note the mention of new iPod.
http://www.msnbc.com/m/lv/default.asp
I know, I know, it's wrong. But the details sound cool, anyway. Here's the quick summary:
Buy tracks for 99c/track or $9.99/album.
Unlimited backups, iPod transfers, and 10 burns per unique playlist.
Each song to up to three macs (yep, DRM)
Everything is AAC @ 128k - claimed to be better than MP3 @ same bitrate.
Free 30 second previews.
Built-in to iTunes.
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