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Live Streaming MWSF Keynote?
In years past, Apple streamed the Macworld San Francisco Keynote (aka Stevenote) live for your delectation. Unfortunately, they seemed to have suspended the practice. Well what's a Mac news junkie to do? Of course you'll be able to count on TUAW and others for live text feeds of the event, but World of Apple Live is promising their own grassroots broadcast via an advertising-supported Flash player.According to the site, they "will be [in] attendance at the Keynote with a laptop that has a flash encoder which captures sound and uploads it to a streaming server which then delivers it to a client-side player at your computer, delivering you with audio live from the Keynote." However, since they don't have guaranteed bandwidth (I'm guessing they'll be using a "Wireless Broadband" card on one of the cell networks), they can't guarantee success. As some commenters have pointed out, this is of questionable legality (and Apple is certainly not known for being reticent with the lawyers), but if they can pull it off it'll be worth checking out on Jan 9th.
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Roberto said 5:21PM on 12-27-2006
Too convoluted. They are using:
* a laptop with a Flash encoder
* a cellphone TCP-IP link
When they could use a plain cellphone call to stream audio to the server, which can receive it via Plain-old-telephone-service.
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Goobimama said 12:23AM on 12-28-2006
I just can't wait for Jan 9th. It's got to have some crazy releases. I mean, the laptops, desktops and pro machines have just been updated (maybe an 8 core mac pro, but nothing more). I hope there's a new release of leopard...
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Mike said 8:58AM on 12-28-2006
I can't wait for the event as well, but will not be able to make it. I'm wondering why though, with all of the new hardware being very multimedia friendly, Apple isn't proactive in video streaming the event. It would seem a great opportunity to demonstrate QT, the new iChat, etc to the masses.
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ALex said 3:04PM on 12-28-2006
Does this mean i will not be able to watch the keynote after it is over?!@#$%
Alex
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MacNewsOnline.com said 3:19PM on 12-28-2006
Ooooo Fun! Just one of the many pages I will be tuned to on Jan 9th!
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rjlawrencejr said 5:04PM on 12-28-2006
I am sure you will be able to see the broadcast, it just won't be a live broadcast (which I am sure you already know). While it won't be as dramatic watching it later, it is less taxing on servers not to have to host 100k+ simultaneous streams.
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Reg said 7:02PM on 12-28-2006
Camcorder with FireWire output + MacBook Pro + EVDO card + QuickTime Streaming Server would be my choice.
However, I doubt it is in fact legal, and security is going to be high at this event because of the hype.
I just read the Engadget live blog, if nothing else for the snarky comments!
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psece said 2:54PM on 12-31-2006
Didn't Apple kill the wireless access in the room last year? I remember reading people couldn't get phone or wi-fi until after the the macnote was done....
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