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?

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QuickTime Streaming

[Quixotic Raindrop]

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.

The Clue

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm a bit confused by this

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.

Re:The Clue

[Anonymous Coward]

I saw one of those 'T.V.s', but I couldn't find the keyboard or mouse and it seemed like it was locked up (monitor did not respond to my IR Palm connection, even though I could see it had an IR sensor). The clerk could not tell me what distro it was running, so I payed for my Ho Ho's and left the store.
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You are ALL beneath my current threshold.

Primarily for media and Apple Retail stores

[daveschroeder]

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

TechTv airing it?

[fdiaz5583]

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

Re:TechTv airing it?

[Anonymous Coward]

TechTV has aired the last few Apple keynote addresses live, albeit with commentary.

Re:I think ...

[ENOENT]

Yeah, it's really big, like a tiger-stripe-patterned iPod. Woo hoo. Either that, or Apple just bought THE INTERNET.

Satelite frequencies to watch

[snowtigger]

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

Re:Satelite frequencies to watch

[mrpuffypants]

this better really be Steve Jobs and not porno ...on second thought the porno would be ok too

Anyone could pick it up...

[phycoman]

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.

OK, I've figured out what the announcement is!

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple's music service will consist of an entire library of Al Gore singing the biggest hits. Remember how popular William Shatner's rendition of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was?

I'm just picturing Gore singing Linkin Park...

This one's obvious

[squiggleslash]

I think it's fairly obvious when you look at Apple's recent product upgrades what's about to be announced. Apple recently revamped both the Powerbook and iMac 2 lines, adding a high end model with a greater clock speed, a larger disk, and a 17" screen.

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.

Re:This one's obvious

[Anonymous Coward]

I think it's fairly obvious when you look at Apple's recent product upgrades what's about to be announced.

Yes, let's look at the product history:

1) metal cases

2) 2.54ghz Airport transmitter

3) flat panel screens

4) iPod touch control dial

5) .Mac accounts

If any intelligent person looked at that, it would just jump out at him (or, uh, her), as it did to me when I first saw it. Apple's next product announcement will be:

The iCook internet-enabled microwave oven!

You read it here first, folks.

Well, I guess this won't be the revolution...

[punkass]

...seeing how this is being televised and all...