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Special Apple Event Scheduled for September 12
davidmcg writes "Macworld are reporting that Apple is hosting a special media event on Tuesday, September 12th 2006 in San Francisco, CA at 10AM Pacific. The event will also be simulcast to a location in London where journalists have also been invited.
The invitation to the media was entitled It's Showtime — suggesting Movie-related announcements. Rumors sites had originally expected iMac updates during the event, but Apple surprised everyone with iMac and Mac mini updates last week.
This leaves iPods, a Movie Store and the possibility of a new streaming Media device for the Tuesday event."
...give me the hardware. 16:9 touchscreen ipod would be mighty sweet...
This leaves iPods, a Movie Store and the possibility of a new streaming Media device for the Tuesday event."
Oh wow. I thought it was a new musical with Steve Jobs as the lead with a consort of white furry bunnies.
Another Apple event???
What could it be???
A different colour iPod?
A slightly larger iPod?
A slightly smaller iPod?
Or maybe even another bunch 'think different' performance specs from Steve??? I hear those Intel chips got some 'really big SPEC scores'!
16:9 touchscreen ipod would be mighty sweet
I love the way no one is even considering the possibility of 4:3 ratio film downloads, even though the 5G iPod's screen is small enough as it is without films taking up even less of the 320x240 resolution if they're going to remain backwards compatible with it. Sure, a widescreen iPod plus film downloads that you'll need to upgrade to the 6G in order to watch on the go seem likely, but it still amazes me how quickly people will refuse to put up with something like pan and scan, the format everyone watched films in at home until only a few years ago in most people's cases.
It's like there's an unwritten agreement that we'll never speak of VHS ever again, like it was an embarrassing mistake that it ever took off in the first place.
is this expected to be a "wireless monitor" or an airtunes-style limited app stream?
/dream
if the latter then hopefully there'll be an Airfoil equivalent, but I hope it turns out to be wireless monitor and speakers.
Please give us a good media center application. I want to connect a mac to my tv and record tv shows, play my dvds and everything else from itunes.
PLEASE, blow away windows media center and mythtv!
This is a news website. Precisely how is dredging up something that happened five years ago newsworthy?
That's true, people might have forgotten it was the anniversary of 9/11 if they didn't see it on Slashdot.
Yes, you're right. Every story today should be about what happened 5 years ago. Nothing else should be reported.
But it seems to me that I just don't feel the Apple hype. Most of the time, there is something equal or better out than the Apple product for a lower price. Still, I guess it's nice to see new [takes on old things] on the market, like we will see, but I just don't expect anything world shattering.
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I'd say that iTunes 7 is also a given:
- last year, iTunes 5 then iTunes 6 (iTunes 5.1 in all but name) were released within a month, mostly to make iTunes release version coincide with the business year. iTunes 6 = 2005-06. iTunes 7 = 2006-2007
- update of some core components to include the movie store
- need to address the competition, particularly WMP, whose ergonomy is improving with v. 11, especially concerning visual interface and the use of artwork.
iTunes is still well thought as a MP3 player but Apple needs to put some more buzz and hype into it as it hasn't much evolved for the last two or three years. It's the piece of Apple music strategy that has been the least covered by rumor sites for the last few months but it's determining none the less.
Do you mean the aniversary of Mahatma Gandi's first successful protest?
what happened on the 9th of november?
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If you must know, there is a nice list here. Among many other things, in German history that was the night of Kristallnacht.
This guy's the limit!
I don't have much use for a wireless monitor either, but they sure are popular. This site has dozens of them, all at different price points.
I think I'm about ready to quit reading Slashdot. Most of the "articles" posted here over the past six months just seem to be warmed over press releases. An announcement about a future announcement is about as low as it gets; regular readers like me are looking for meat, not hype.
Throwing in a game console would probably be a stretch, but Apple doesn't seem to have any designs on entering into the game console market. Consolidation of everything A/V outside of that makes quite a bit sense provided that the hardware support is there. And in the past couple of years inexpensive CPU cores and hard drives have finally gotten to the point where they can do that.
The executives at the telcos are holding up progress because they want to be the only company to sell $1.99 ring tones to their customers and they all have fantasies about setting up their own iTunes style online stores, too. The telcos are standing in the way of progress for, literally, hundreds of millions of people (2 Billion served).
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Well big deal. Letdown of the week last week was the absence of Conroe chips in the "new"" iMacs. Huge screens running on laptop chips is not what I call great technology.
Apple made the right decision updating the iMac to a 64-bit processor and using the low power version of the same 64-bit dual core chip family in the product. How many tons of coal will be saved over the lifetime of the first million of those iMacs sold, compared to the same system were it to use the desktop chip, whose primary technology advantage from the home user's perspective would have been that it runs hotter and slurps more electrons.
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You're thinking of Back to the Future. I hope it was just part I but I never looked into it enough to see if it was all three movies.
They didn't double pan and scan. They took the pan and scan and then cut off the top of bottom. I think we all understand what you were trying to say but you said it completely wrong.
Perhaps though I was wrong about what went wrong because this site goes into detail about what went wrong and even mentions a few other movies to which the same/similar error occured
very good reply.
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I've never understood the wireless speakers thing. I mean - you still have to plug them in, right? How is having a big power cord sticking out the back (and possibly an AC Adapter brick) more agreeable than simply running some speaker cable? Also, ideal speaker placement may be compromised if you don't happen to have an outlet nearby.
For a lot of music produced in the '60's, the mono mix was the original, which had all of the effort put into it. Stereo mixes were afterthoughts, with gimmicks like putting the vocals on one side and most of the instruments on the other. A few CD re-reissues have included both mixes (often only a few bonus tracks, and not the entire album), but there's still a lot of lost content out there as most were made without thought from the stereo masters. Ironically, while there are some mono tracks available on iTunes, their download format is still stereo, even though AAC supports mono.
Because the poster clearly doesn't see the need to eliminate all the plugging and unplugging of cables. A mere 90% is sufficient.
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Most of the time, there is something equal or better out than the Apple product for a lower price.
Hardware-wise, pretty much all of the time.
Software-wise? Apple's been the leader pretty much since Jaguar came out.
Apple's a software company. Their hardware is an expensive "dongle" for their software.
1. It will be easier to configure and use.
.mac as podcasts posted to the iTMS.
How could it get any easier?
Nah, it'll have more integration with the iTunes Music Store.
It'll integrate some kind of Dashboard-like visualizer based plugin mechanism for controls that'll work better on Mac OS than Windows.
It'll have "video podcast" support and a way to let you drop your own files into the podcast tab to automatically share and stream them via
And a new DRM scheme to allow people to put restrictions on their Podcasts and vidcasts.
(I hate doing this, seriously)
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Why do I care if it supports FLAC? Apple provides a compressor and decompressor for ALAC, and you can freely convert between lossless formats without fear.
Better audio output? Prove it.
I don't need a simple hard drive interface, it'd be tougher for it to be simpler than iTunes, and I already like Apple's menu organizational structure (the one they paid Creative $100M for), so I don't feel the need to rearrange my menus by rearranging my files.
What does the Cowon do with USB host? Hard-drive based iPods have USB host. But the only thing Apple uses it for is to suck pictures off your digital camera over USB. Does Cowon do something cooler with it? I have to imagine there are cooler things that Apple doesn't bother with.
The Cowon X5 is rated at 14 hours. The 30G Apple 5G ipod is rated at 14 hours. The 60G Apple 5G iPod is rated at 20 hours. There's an X5L which has much longer battery life, but it's a lot thicker, being 50% thicker than the 60G 5g iPod, and that doesn't even include the screen which appears to protrude another 2mm.
http://reviews.cnet.com/Cowon_iAudio_X5_20GB/4505
Now to some more subjective comments.
Is the better screen quality you are referring to the 262,144 colors? With a good dither scheme in place, you'll never see the difference between 65,536 colors and 262,144. And without a good dither scheme, both will look poor on color and greyscale ramps. I just don't see this as an issue personally. What will be easy to notice is that the screen on the 5G iPod is 320x240 and the screen on the Cowon X5 is 160x128. The iPod has almost 4x the pixels. I thought watching video was annoying staring at a 320x240 screen, 160x128 would really be annoying.
It doesn't appear the X5 charges off of USB like the 5G iPod does it? I guess that's what the dock is for. This would annoy me highly on the go, as I use my laptop as a charger and AC adapter for my iPod when I go on vacation. It wouldn't be as bothersome in regular use as once you go through the slight extra trouble of hooking up the dock, it works fine from then on as long as you can get home to it each night.
The X5 looks pretty stylish. However, I think I'd be a tad embarassed when people saw my device said "color sound" on it. That can be solved by keeping it in my pocket though. One thing that can't be solved is that I am left handed and the Cowon is inherently right handed with the placement of that tiny joystick.
The display remote is simultaneously pretty fancy and also large enough that I'd probaly never use it. It's about 1/4 the size of the main unit. That means I'd never clip it to my shirt, and if I'm going to bring it in and out of my pocket, I might as well bring the whole thing in and out. A college student who keeps his player in his backpack would probably feel differently though. Oh, I see it costs extra. That's fine, since I wouldn't use it, I wouldn't buy it. No harm, no foul.
It does not appear to be an inherently tougher build. It might be more scratch resistant on the front though, I can't tell from the pics.
It's nice Cowon sells things like a port breakout at very reasonable prices. A lot cheaper than iPod accessories.
http://onlinestore.cowonamerica.com/index.asp?Pag
I think your advantage list falls short of what it promises. This doesn't look like a bad player though.
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Just make a goddamn phone already, Jesus fucking Christ!!
Sincerely,
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Only in the US. Here in the UK, everyone I know with both routinely syncs their Macs and 'phones. Most new 'phones support Bluetooth and SyncML; my last three 'phones have supported Bluetooth, and I don't upgrade very often.
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What about updated Merom based Powerbooks? All major PC brands has announced Merom based laptops. Apple can't lag that much without losing brand value etc.
Ooh, and I want to order a new Powerbook ASAP!
To complement the movie downloads from iTMS.
In offering the iMac in a 24" version it didn't just get a bigger screen. It got more pixels. It is 1920*1200, making it able to natively show 1920*1080 (1080i) HDTV at full detail, something most $4000 plasma televisions don't do. They're almost all only supporting 720p natively (720 pixels tall).
Perhaps it is no coincidence that El Gato Systems set the second week of September as the ship date for their Eye TV Hybrid which allows recent Macs to watch, record and play NTSC (analog) and HDTV (off air ATSC and IIRC, Clear-QAM Cable). The combination of the Eye-TV Hybrid or the earlier Eye TV 500 (digital only) and an iMac makes a great platform for HDTV. I expect that Steve will demo the two together. I've used an Eye-TV 500 on a 20" iMac. Good program material is stunning even with some detail being lost to scaling down for the 1680 pixel width of the screen. Getting the full detail and PVR functionality on a 24" iMac will be even better.
A relative near a major US city is getting about 20 digital program channels off-air (free), not counting a bunch of foreign-language and religious offerings. Those in remote areas won't be so lucky. But there are those BT downloads, and perhaps Steve will offer us a few more things from iTMS...
Touché.
Apple doesn't fill the in between market like dell tries to do. You either buy a workstation or a light, friendly desktop.
Apple doesn't *sell* a regular desktop.
What you're calling the "in between" market is most of the market. Look at what people are actually buying at any computer store: all-in-one PCs flunk in the market, every time, and the only reason Apple can sell them at all is because they make it the only option if you want a Mac... and they're losing sales from everyone who doesn't want a Mac quite that badly as a result.
They need a Mac mini "Pro", and it can't cost much more than the current mini. But it seems like Jobs is having second thoughts on going back on his "no ugly monitors" statement.
Don't know about you, but $399.00 for the http://onlinestore.cowonamerica.com/index.asp?Page Action=VIEWCATS&Category=6060 Gig iAudio X5 looks a lot like $399.00 for the http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ppleStore.woa/wo/1.RSLID?mco=CC4D3CBB&nclm=iPod60 Gig iPod
Maybe where you live the prices are different or they do math wrong.
The Apple Store has been replaced with Apple's usual "We'll be right back" sticky note... that's usually a good sign that we'll be seeing some new products today...