No live Keynote webcast, again

I Want LIVE back also. It is so frustrating waiting around for the rebroadcast after the fact. NOT everyone can afford to take to the time to go to California.

I enjoyed the ZDTV airings from several years back. Those were sweet. Nice live big screen satellite transmission.

When they switched to "TechTV" the crappy little popins from the likes of Lauderbak and company ruined it, but at least it was somewhat more watchable than the web version.

I think the "pay per view" for a live broadcast through iTunes is a good idea if it stays below $1.

The real big kicker for me was when they stopped the TechTV live casts. It used to be a big item and then when G4 took them over they lost the rights somehow. Yet another reason to hate G4 in my opinion.

I used to watch the Stevenotes when available live, but it's not compelling enough to me to download them after it's all old news. So I never see them anymore. Likewise, all the people who stop by my office at that time never say, "huh? what's that?" anymore. So really, though it may be expensive for Apple, I think it's a major loss of advertising to skip it. It's sort of like companies shelling out the money for a superbowl commercial -- they feel it's worth it. I feel live keynotes would be a worthwhile investment, but theoretically Apple's decision-makers have analyzed it and decided it isn't. Maybe that's for the best, but I still miss watching the keynotes live.

Pouring what over all the new stuff at Macworld?

Molasses?

right on

"The only thing more fun than pouring over all of the new stuff that's revealed during a Steve Jobs keynote ..."

Pouring *what* over all the new stuff? Water?

You need to lose the "U" in pouring - it's the homonym "poring" you wanted.

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/poring

If you want to see it live, buy tickets and go there. I would rather download the entire show and be able to watch it in good quality then have so watched a small, slow, low quality stream. With the ever-growing apple fans I truly believe it would slow down parts of the internet. I can see trends after apples keynotes the internet being very slow. At least he gives it out to the public.

I think they should make the live keynote feed a pay-per-view video on the iTMS (or whatever it will be called after tomorrow :-D ). That way, those of us who are willing to shell out a couple bucks just to see His Steveness debut the products live will be able to do so, instead of going to a web page that updates every 60 seconds. It would deter those of us who think that's a stupid idea and a waste of money. It could keep the bandwidth to a somewhat-manageable level. Maybe next year...

Would cost be the deciding factor in this? Is it the expense that has caused them to give up on web-casting keynotes?

Blah...

I WANT WEBCASTS BACK DAMMIT!