Academy Award Nominated Short Films point to movies to be the announcement of the day

that's not 'fun', didn't the invite read 'fun'. Bringing downloadable movies would be nice, but they'll have to improve iTunes' handling of movie files - on anything less than a G4 1Ghz preformance is terrible, I can't believe paying for any video content only to have it playback in the sham-of-a video player that is iTunes 6 (today).

and then the big-bag video iPod... fellas, look at the battery issues that stand today... the 5G iPod's video playback is limited to 3hrs on the battery, that's two films, or one film and an hour or so music- that doesn't do it for me, sorry.

'fun', what could this mean... are we all looking in the wrong direction - or is 'fun' cupertino talk for media?

Jacob, I think you're splitting hairs by calling me wrong on the Pixar / Disney bit, especially considering that those Disney shorts didn't show up until *after* the most recent Disney/Pixar acquisition.

As for the rest of you, I really hope that there is some hardware announced, but products hasn't always meant hardware, and I've sat through some very long keynotes that featured minor bumps in hardware and focused on things like the iTMS in the past, so I'm a bit concerned that this one will be the same.

I'd be bummed if no new hardware, or software, or the combination of the two, wasn't announced. Also I think that equating movieshorts with full length movies is drawing broad conclusions from limited facts, and my grandfather always preached against doing that. Besides, Apple probably had easy access to Pixar features, but they never showed up on ITMS. (Is that proper grammar?)

My predictions: New Mac Mini, New iBook, adding "Merry Melodies" shorts to ITMS. Bugs Bunny rulez!

The infrastructure isn't ready for feature length film.

C.K. you are wrong on this so rest easy. Apple has *never* had a major Steve Jobs keynote / special presentation for a software only change. These always have the "sexyness" of new hardware, always. So while iTunes movies may very well be the focus, be assured it would be along with a new Mac mini with improved Front Row 2.0 to help show it, or maybe a new video iPod. No matter what happens there will be new hardware, although I doubt the huge range of iBook, Mac mini, and video iPod predicted all at once by some other sites. Pic one of those PLUS the iTunes movies and you likely have what is happening today.

Usually before a hardware announcement, ship times on the speculated hardware to be upgrades slip to weeks or days. The mac mini still shows a ship time of less then 24 hours at the apple store online. Sad.

"These are non-Pixar films in the iTMS. The first. "
Wrong.

What about the Disney short films?

Sam's got a good point - "Come see our fun new PRODUCTS"

I personally don't care all that much about what is released today since I won't have the money to purchase it.

Oh, the life of a college student...

how can you say that onlly movies will be put out, when the announcement says "Come see our fun new PRODUCTS"

I pay 9.99 for 6 dvd rentals from Amazon UK each month. Give me a movie at "DVD" quality for 1.50 that I can only watch once and I'll be happy. But I wouldn't fork out for "iPod resolution" movies, no matter how many times I could watch them.
(Btw, that's 17.50 and 2.60 for you Americans with your crazee dollars!)

Watching movies on my computer? Wow, that's revolutionary.