Music event live streamed at apple.com

aidan_walsh

Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® or iPod touch® running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad™. The live broadcast will begin at 10:00 a.m. PDT on September 1, 2010 at www.apple.com.

Be interesting to see if this is the start of a consistent series of these events being streamed or just a one off.

aidan_walsh

Dave Winer suggests on Twitter that this is pretty much proof positive that streaming is going to be a big deal in the event tomorrow. Do we buy that?

Sad Professor

No. I suspect this is just a consequence of the wifi problems Jobs experienced at the last keynote due to the live bloggers saturating the wifi signal. You can be damn sure he was pissed about it. As I and others suggested at the time, the solution was for Apple to offer a live stream and tell the bloggers to get lost. Which from the looks of it is what they've done.

Lets just hope Apple's servers can handle the traffic.

KeithM89_old

So thats 6pm in Ireland ?? Cant wait

J-blk

Definitely be watching, not really interested in the event itself for the most part, but curious to see how Apple's servers will handle the, most likely, massive strain...

KeithM89_old

Hope its not true the broadcast is US only

Sad Professor

KeithM89 wrote: »

Hope its not true the broadcast is US only

Where did you read this?

KeithM89_old

Just read on Twitter and because only the US site has a link to the stream

But i doubt its true....... hopefully

Sad Professor

We'll find out shortly, I guess.

Rumour is that the AppleTV won't be immediately available. And the "back to school" offer doesn't end until the 7th, which means no new iPods until then. So it from the looks of it, nothing will be shipping today.

Unless the new AppleTV is really impressive (which I seriously doubt), I suspect I'm going to be very underwhelmed by these announcements. Although hopefully Steve will demo iOS 4 for iPad.

KeithM89_old

Well the US Apple Store is down apparently so something new might ship toay - the new nano's and classic probably

EDIT - so is the Irish store

Sad Professor

They might just be putting up pre-orders though.

mailforkev

Doubt this is going to be releasing anything of much interest to me but it will be interesting to see if I can view it on the phone on the bus home from work.

aidan_walsh

Alanis Morrisette - You Learn Interesting choice.

Video is damned smooth on my UPC connection, I have to say.

KeithM89_old

Nothing more exciting than watching a bunch of people taking their seats...

Simon201

'Bout time they did this. Surely should be done every announcement or WWDC. Couldn't be anything but beneficial to business wouldn't it?

Sad Professor

Woz is there.

J-blk

Seems to have gone haywire... Steve was just announcing the iPod Touch and the stream changed to people taking their seats . Awesome.

Sad Professor

It's okay here. Reload your stream.

J-blk

Took awhile but seems to be back to normal now.

Cabaal

$99 for the new Apple TV, pretty damn good price to be honest.
Makes it very attractive to buy compared to the old $230 price.

PeakOutput

Cabaal wrote: »

$99 for the new Apple TV, pretty damn good price to be honest.
Makes it very attractive to buy compared to the old $230 price.

VERY attractive indeed

will much content be blocked for irish customers or do you think this is a world wide service

Sad Professor

PeakOutput wrote: »

will much content be blocked for irish customers or do you think this is a world wide service

I assume we'll have access to what we have at the moment. i.e., not very much.

I suspect it will be a long time before that changes.

creativedrinker

i orderd a itouch last week with the stundent deal with a imac... gutted now with the new one out.. i wonder is that under the promotion for the last week of the promotion

PeakOutput

creativedrinker wrote: »

i orderd a itouch last week with the stundent deal with a imac... gutted now with the new one out.. i wonder is that under the promotion for the last week of the promotion

no the entire point of the promotion is to get rid of the old stock before the announcement

Sad Professor

creativedrinker wrote: »

i orderd a itouch last week with the stundent deal with a imac... gutted now with the new one out.. i wonder is that under the promotion for the last week of the promotion

No. The whole point of the back to school promo is to clear their inventory of iPods. Apple do it every year. We knew there would be new iPods on September 8th.

^ PeakOutput beat me to it.

creativedrinker

just checked it out.. its only the 3rd gen ahh well worth a try

Sad Professor

It's usually advised that you don't open it and sell it in advance of the announcements.

creativedrinker

Sad Professor wrote: »

It's usually advised that you don't open it and sell it in advance of the announcements.

I only orderd it on sunday just incase i could could cancel the order to get the 4th gen... I might look into selling it tho if i can get enough for it.. got the 64gb one so might make something off it as it only cost 200 with rebate

Sad Professor

Yeah, you'll still get a good price for it. With the rebate it didn't cost you much anyway, so sell it and put it toward the new one.

creativedrinker

Sad Professor wrote: »

Yeah, you'll still get a good price for it. With the rebate it didn't cost you much anyway, so sell it and put it toward the new one.

I think i will, was thinking of getting a video camera for holidays/gigs and that sort of stuff so its basically a all in one, in the conference it didnt mention the pixel rate of the camera, or i might of missed it... i looked on apple.ie but i cant find any info, does anybody know what sort of camera it could be?? 5mp??

DominoDub

The Apple TV looks good and a nice price ....but my heart stopped when I saw the new "Ping" service in ITunes 10.

As user of Last.fm for the last few years , they only gone and copied most of the features of last.fm the future does not look bright for last.fm.

Apple = "Take others idea's an make it our own & better "

Sad Professor

The new Touch has a piece of crap video camera on the rear unfortunately. Not sure what the megapixel it is, less than one anyway. Alright for video, but useless as a camera.

wayne040576

I wonder if the TV show streaming will work on the old Apple TV with a US account. I get some of my shows with it at the moment but 99c a pop would be great.

KeithM89_old

Sad Professor wrote: »

The new Touch has a piece of crap video camera on the rear unfortunately. Not sure what the megapixel it is, less than one anyway. Alright for video, but useless as a camera.

Ah no! :(Where'd you hear that? The samples on the Apple website look great

dory

So glad the old shuffles are back!! Definitely buying one now. I'd been waiting for the return of the buttons!

Sad Professor

KeithM89 wrote: »

Ah no! :(Where'd you hear that? The samples on the Apple website look great

It says it on a tech specs:

Video recording, HD (720p) up to 30 frames per second with audio; still photos (960x720) with back camera

nesf

Definitely going to get the new Apple TV I think. Considering an iPod nano to replace my iPod classic. Wristwatch style with wireless headphones perhaps.