Watch the Keynote in HD

HD is the next best thing to being there, and if you weren't fortunate enough to be in the audience of Steve Job's Macworld 2008 keynote, than this is for you. Apple has just made available a HD stream for your viewing pleasure. The stream is 720p (that's 1280x720, just what the Apple TV supports) and requires a fairly fast machine to watch (Apple says you need a 1.8 GHz or faster G5 at the very least to watch the stream, and at least 256 MB of RAM).

I just watched the first few minutes and it looks great.

Thanks, Adam.

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Source: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf08/

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echave

Any (easy) way to download the HD keynote? Exporting from Quicktime only produces a 4kb reference movie, and VLC has quit on me twice trying to transcode from the stream.

rtsp://a2047.v1414b.c1414.g.vq.akamaistream.net/5/2047/1414/1_h264_1000/1a1a1ae757c733980368e14fbe3297c529980f7de958b91d4bac1778e546afdd40af1c4b7cb0e115/972345688g_1_1000.mov

January 23 2008 at 12:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ralfo

a download version of the hdstream would be niiiice

January 22 2008 at 6:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Seth Amott

Sweet Jesus!!! This is incredible, I mean, its not 1080, but you know what, it a whole heckuva lot better than the previous stream. Watching it on my glorious HD TV right now. I hope Apple streams HD alongside the Standard feed next time so I can watch it first in HD.

January 22 2008 at 6:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

A strolling player

Ugh. Yet again Steve steps on the feet of all 1.6GHz G5 owners.

Every. Day.

January 22 2008 at 6:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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James

That's weird. Why haven't you been complaining all this time? Apple have had recommended requirements up for years.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/recommendations.html

January 23 2008 at 7:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

A strolling player

I have. 720p plays reasonably well, honestly.

The biggest problem I've had is with iChat AV:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306687
How many times do you see 1.8 GHz G5? It's like they left the 1.6 out on purpose. I'm sure those 200 MHz don't make that much of a difference, and iChat knows I have a 1.6 and uses it against me.

January 23 2008 at 9:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Johnathon Zirkle

Doesn't seem all that HD to me. I'm sort of not impressed...

January 22 2008 at 6:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pete Zich

I'm curious if anyone knows how they do the iphone live demos. I saw something a while back in the iPhone lockdown file about screen streaming or something like that but I don't know enough about itunes to investigate further. I'm guessing this isn't anything easily doable for people outside of Apple.

January 22 2008 at 5:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jacob B

Doesn't this mean it can't be viewed on the entry model MacBook Air!!!!

January 22 2008 at 4:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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John Doe

1.8 GHz *G5*

January 22 2008 at 5:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

brian

Meh. I just bought a 24" Dell LCD, 1920x1200. Call me when they re-re-repost it in 1080p. ;-)

January 22 2008 at 4:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Marcos

Interesting how they deployed the Keynote feeds:
1. Low quality stream
2. Ok quality podcast
3. HD podcast

Most of the people interested in watching used the stream when it came out right away and will not watch again. This way when the masses hit Apple was just serving the smaller files.

As the demand decreased, they rolled out better and larger versions. It's a good strategy, but I wish it came out in HD when I first watched.

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mingistech

The HD version is not a podcast... it's another quicktime stream.

I would prefer it to be a podcast though... i'd love to watch it in HD on my AppleTV.

January 22 2008 at 4:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

look

is there a way to download the video????

January 22 2008 at 3:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply