Steve's D8 interview now available on iTunes

On my iPad, if I preview the video, it will in fact stream the entire thing. Just kinda cool if you want to watch the video without downloading it.

Apple actually used to to Quicktime stream their events live, around 2001-2004. They were so popular that the servers collapsed under the loads, and the postage stamp sized video was pretty underwhelming. I remember working in an office and crowding around the one computer that had managed to get through.

Considering the titanic crush of media attention, it could be that Apple just doesn't want to incur the expense of the live video when the rest of the media simply live blogs it at no cost to them.

E3? Microsoft? Nintendo? Live streaming? Near HD Quality? Check :)

Sopcast? Veetle? TVU? Youtube? ESPN3? I could go on.

Slow Apple newsday?!?!?

Now if we could get the same interviews from the previous 7 ATDs that would be great!

I was watching Steve's interview from ATD1 last night (on ATDs' site) as was shocked how much he has changed - even before the surgery.

Not rocket science. The Standard Registration Fee is $4,495 for D8, another $1200 for a spouse.

You can provide a higher quality after-the-fact stream than live, since a two-pass encode gives better quality at the same bit rate.

A live stream is definitely more demanding on the network. You're going to end up paying a premium, since there are extra charges for running up a high bandwidth rate, as well as for total bandwidth.

There is also the issue of control of content, in case someone says something they don't want going out. But I doubt that's a significant issue on things like this; once said, it's out anyway.

Oh brother, now we're correcting grammar in postings? It's the f-ing internet for crying out loud and a comments section for that matter. Sheesh. Take a pill and get a life. Unless you're in line in Texas for the iPhone4, then well you have a life and it's now under a microscope!

Back to the matter at hand:

Live streaming from these events...well you saw the WWDC issue with bandwidth and those were just mifi's plugged in and feeding to multiple computers or devices trying to live blog and upload photos. That's one reason - Bandwidth. Most of these venues don't have it to use and dragging it in is cost prohibitive. Also if you were buying a ticket to an event and then found it to be live streamed, wouldn't you be asking for a refund? I would be. Would save on airfare, hotel, etc.

Next up is the potential editing factors if there were anything that the speaker wanted edited out, live stream negates that from happening. Not that Steve would ever want to be edited, but other companies might...facebook sweat catchers anyone?

Downloading this now on a 30+MB/sec connection and it's 1.1gb in size, but the download time projection is 24 mins which means everyone in the universe is tapping these servers right now. Too wild since you can watch it on the D8 site, but I guess people want it on the iPhone and in my case the iPad to watch over and over again.

This was a great session with Steve, Kara and Walt. Highly encouraged to watch this one and then watch the Zuckerberg Comedy Hour where he breaks out into an ocean of sweat, practically passes out, and reveals he's the leader of the FACECASE CULT. Well not really, but the other stuff is true!

Mike

Russ can't spell you're.

Apple doesn't livestream their events too.