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Apple's agenda for the media event?

by Dave Caolo Sep 11th 2006 at 11:45PM

Ok, it's time for some last-minute rumor mongering. A little birdie just flew into TUAW headquarters (a little birdie who wishes to remain anonymous) and told us the following. Remember, this is all rumor, folks, but it sounds like it could be legit to us. Here we go.

"...Let's just say I have been informed by a little reliable birdy about Tomorrow's event. The line-up will follow this similar structure:
  • Welcoming of Media Members
  • Discussion on iTunes software, iTMS integration into iTunes, and iTMS sales and facts.
  • Announcement of iTunes version 7.0
  • Announces better search feature for Music Store
  • Announces Movie Store. Available Immediately will be movies from Disney and Pixar, among other studios.
  • New iPod Nano Announcement (nice brushed casing, while it will have same features as first gen, only a longer battery life)
  • New iPod Announcement (Widescreen, Bluetooth, and featuring virtual touchweel. Does not include Wi-Fi, or any other protocols)
  • One More Thing....TubePort. A $99 2-piece set that includes a dongle that connects via USB to your mac, and another dongle that connects via included HD cables or regular Component cables to your TV. The movie is accessed on your Mac via an iDisk-like storage component hosted by Apple.
Jobs will then explain the pricing structure of the Movie Store. Movies will be available as either a smaller iPod-format (which will cost $9.99 per movie), or as a larger, streamed movie to be streamed to your TV via TubePort. This cost $14.99 per movie. To purchase an iPod-formatted movie and a streamed version of the same movie, it will cost you $19.99."

Do with that what you will (We agree that "TubePort" is a really lame-sounding name).

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marcintosh

TubePort sounds fake. I'll go with Kevin's comment that it's not trademarked. That step one in Apple's marketing handbook. Too bad AirWave is taken. That would be perfect.

September 12 2006 at 11:09 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Greg

Apple has a trademark application from 2005 for "TUBES"...so Apple Tubes...?

September 12 2006 at 11:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dude

Of course, as we know from our informed member of congress, the Internets is a series of tubes...

September 12 2006 at 10:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark

Well, QuickTime 7 is clearly part of it...Our XServe Software Update came up with an update to QuickTime 7.1.2 this morning!

September 12 2006 at 10:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
peyote

tubeport sounds like one of several fake names they might use to trace where information leaks come from. ie., 1 set of employees get the name tubeport, while a different set gets airtube, etc. it'd be a good way to trace a leak if you were suspicious.

this would be the best explanation of such a bad name.

September 12 2006 at 10:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Damien Guard

USB 2 doesn't have enough bandwidth to output high-def uncompressed video.

If there were to create such a device it would almost certainly hang off a dvi/vga port.

[)amien

September 12 2006 at 9:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Pete

So we wont be able to stream any video to our TVs - only stuff from the movie store?

September 12 2006 at 8:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jonathan

It seems going from TV Shows to HOMe reveals a Busy signal and searching for anything reveals a black page that says: It's Showtime The iTunes Store is being updated.

wow! anyone notice that 'Music' is already gone from that? hint hint

September 12 2006 at 8:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ginzuknives

That pricing structure sounds lame. why would I pay that much for a lo-res ipod version when i can buy the dvd for $20 and rip it for my ipod, or download it for free from the internet? the whole idea why itunes was successful in music was that the prices were reasonable compared to the ridiculous prices that the music industry was charging for a CD. The pricing structure also sounds too complicated to be apple. One price for this, and another price for that, and yet another price is you want to use it this, huh? That's so not apple. I guess we'll find out in a few hours!

September 12 2006 at 8:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cocomo

I'd like to say the TubePort is unlikely in name at least. Line6 might have a copyright on such things like their TonePort and GuitarPort interfaces and might have something on the TubePort name due to the guitar overtones. Come to think of it, they had a Pod before the iPod :)

September 12 2006 at 7:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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