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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?
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)
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
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.
By the way, usually its the other way around, especially for some reason with video cards. Takes forever for the PC versions to hit the mac.
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