dcv
09-12-2006, 10:40 AM
Just perused Engadget's coverage of Jobs's Keynote - http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/live-from-the-steve-jobs-keynote-its-showtime/
New iPod with video - 60% brighter screen, better earphones, longer battery life (6.5 hours on video playback on the bigger one, 3.5 hrs on the smaller one), gapless playback (that'll be nice - it's my favorite feature of the last release of WinAMP), games, price drop on the 30GB to $249, $349 for the 80 GB.
//As of 11:38, I've just ordered an 80GB iPod
New Nano - 2 GB, 4 GB, and 8GB, same prices as last year's models ($149-$249), mini-like colored aluminum cases on some models.
New Shuffle - aluminum, and scarily tiny - like the size of the FM-radio attachment for the bigger iPods. I'd lose that thing so quickly.
iTunes 7 is coming out too - most importantly, TV shows and Music Videos will now be available in 640x480 (as opposed to 320x240), so they'll look better. They also ripped-off (maybe licensed or bought, but I kinda doubt it) the popular OS X app Coverflow, so you can flip through your music collection by album art.
EDIT: They did buy Coverflow, afterall - http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow/
I bet any minute now he'll announce an iTMS movie store, too.
EDIT: Here we go, iTMS Movies - available the day the DVD is released, 640x480 resolution. $12.99 if you pre-order or buy during the first week, $9.99 afterwards. You can start watching the movie the minute it starts downloading, and it should take 30 minutes to download (yeah right). Four studios, all owned buy Disney, are in on this.
EDIT:
Oh, and one more thing.(TM)
iTV - coming out Q1 2007, basically Media Center Extender, done Apple-style. It's a wired or wireless box that plugs into your TV (even has HDMI out for HDTVs) and streams content from your computers.
New iPod with video - 60% brighter screen, better earphones, longer battery life (6.5 hours on video playback on the bigger one, 3.5 hrs on the smaller one), gapless playback (that'll be nice - it's my favorite feature of the last release of WinAMP), games, price drop on the 30GB to $249, $349 for the 80 GB.
//As of 11:38, I've just ordered an 80GB iPod
New Nano - 2 GB, 4 GB, and 8GB, same prices as last year's models ($149-$249), mini-like colored aluminum cases on some models.
New Shuffle - aluminum, and scarily tiny - like the size of the FM-radio attachment for the bigger iPods. I'd lose that thing so quickly.
iTunes 7 is coming out too - most importantly, TV shows and Music Videos will now be available in 640x480 (as opposed to 320x240), so they'll look better. They also ripped-off (maybe licensed or bought, but I kinda doubt it) the popular OS X app Coverflow, so you can flip through your music collection by album art.
EDIT: They did buy Coverflow, afterall - http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow/
I bet any minute now he'll announce an iTMS movie store, too.
EDIT: Here we go, iTMS Movies - available the day the DVD is released, 640x480 resolution. $12.99 if you pre-order or buy during the first week, $9.99 afterwards. You can start watching the movie the minute it starts downloading, and it should take 30 minutes to download (yeah right). Four studios, all owned buy Disney, are in on this.
EDIT:
Oh, and one more thing.(TM)
iTV - coming out Q1 2007, basically Media Center Extender, done Apple-style. It's a wired or wireless box that plugs into your TV (even has HDMI out for HDTVs) and streams content from your computers.