BBC accidentally reveals video iPod?
posted October 5th 2005 5:00PM
Want some more evidence that Apple is getting ready to drop a video iPod on us next week? (Yeah, we know this contradicts what ThinkSecret reported earlier today about Jobs unveiling new Power Macs and PowerBooks.) Well, according to our good friends over at iLounge, earlier today BBC 6 accidentally let slip that, "Apple is set to unveil a new video iPod at the BBC Television Centre in London on October the 12th," and that the company is "expected to reveal details of the new MP3 and video player as well as video bundles to be available from the company's iTunes stores." Stands to reason that the BBC would be one of Apple's content partners — they've been notoriously forward-thinking in their plans to put their TV and radio show archives online — and somewhat suspiciously the broadcast mentioning the new iPod has since been pulled from the BBC's website. The plot thickens.
[Thanks, Liam]
duh dun DUN!
Grasping at some pretty big straws.
Hows about we all calm down, put our lifesize posters of Steve Jobs back under our beds and just.....breathe....thats good, in....now out....feel better?
Eh, sounds valid, but that photo is still completely fake.
I'm expecting a new "leak" soon...
Normally these rumours are just that, rumours.
But if the Beeb says it will be done, i'm getting my checkbook.
Next wednesday will be an expensive one :D
I really hope an iPod video comes out on Tuesday. Lets hope Think Secret is wrong this time!!
w007! Not only do I get a sleek, sexy, portable video player, I /also/ get the luxury of having all those awesome BBC documentaries which only hit Canada a few months later! Simon Reeve's next adventure on "Holidays in the Danger Zone" will be mine to see ANY-f*****g-WHERE!
wow apple has indeed taken over the world
There was a comparison of this photo to some product called the viiv or something like that (on digg) and also, the picture on screen is supposedly from a toshiba Pocket PC reboot screen....
sB
Dude this photo on the IPOD video was on MSNBC this afternoon!! They had the camera right on engadget.com! U guys are famous!
I'm a pessimist, I think it's all gonna be Dual core G5 stuff. Plus that video ipod picture doesn't look like it fixes anything steve said about why he didn't like it (small screen, etc). I'd like to be surprised.
I would love to have one, but will it support multiple formats??? I guess we will have to wait and hold our breath.
Synthaxx R-or I agree with you if this is true... next wednesday will be real expensive for me... because I have wanted the dam thing for so long that I just really don't care what it cost anymore... just give me the dam thing already....lol
If this is all true apple is a marketing genius, because all of a sudden right before the show stuff leaks so you have to watch the show... I wouldn't be surprised if steve job's called BBC and told them leak it and then pull it quick... that's all we will need to get huge demand for the show - while also creating a super buzz for the product... every news show will be on pins and needles waiting to release what was it that apple revealed at the show... lol
I mean just look at all the press from engadget... and it's not even out yet... Apple - (marketing genius)
Does anyone really think there is a large market for the ipod video? I could never stand watching movies on the small screens, and nor did I ever have much of a desire to.
And to the comment about Apple taking over the world. Pretty scary, dare I say Apple is becoming the new Microsoft. Key word: becoming (for all you apple fans out there). ;-)
I propose an alternative theory - the BBC saw all these rumors and someone accidentally took one for fact and slipped that in there and when they realized that it may not be true, they pulled it.
But then again, wouldn't they have issued a correction if this was the case?
BBC 6, wtf is BBC 6 - there's a digital radio channel (listened to by no-one) called 6 Music. But c'mon - these guys are nobodies.
Although the BBC Motion Gallery (which i love to pieces) is fully Quicktime-ed... there streaming media is on the RealPlayer side of life,
And due to the BBC being publicly-owned and all that (there are no ads or prodcut placements on any of there shows) such a high-profile integration of BBC Content with a Brand name Product, hmm.
More interesting : why don' we speculate on what would be the cool stuff so that we'll be super ashamed of being in this list of comments on the 13th !!!
i'd love to be able to connect that stuff to a monitor/projector/something to get rid of this fake problem of a tiny screen, actually we start to feel like it's really possible to enjoy a flick on the psp, but it ain't easy to drop the image to the tv man!!!
So please Apple : provide us wth the smartest link system to our cool videoHDscreens or let Bose/Griffin like brands announce some crazy add-ons the same day as the launch of one of our best whish for the new year : the vPod
I to am hoping for a iPod video next Tuesday but this thing definitely isn't it. The corners are too rounded compared to the other iPods. I'll take new iPods or PowerMacs next Tuesday.
That is definitely the reboot screen from a Toshiba Pocket PC...I'm looking at mine right now.
Screw iLounge, this site had the story long before they did.
No. 14, I think there really is a huge demand for the iPod video. If the screen quality is good enough (i.e. PSP) people will not care as much bout the screen size.
I'm just hoping that it will not have the same scratching problems some Nanos had.
I am in Paris and there have been posters (with a music better photo) of this device everywhere next to the nano, being touted as the Video iPod. So either this is no secret for non-Americans or it is a well publicized fake.
Yep - 6 Music is a minority (though very good!) digital radio music station, with short news bulletins.
The BBC have, this month, just started trials of their Internet Media Player, that allows 5,000 trial users to download shows from the last 7 days of output at broadcast (or near broadcast quality). However this is all based around Windows Media. The BBC News website video is based around RealMedia.
It could be the Beeb are going to provide video output in Quicktime, who knows... The BBC podcasts are VERY popular in iTunes after all.
I to am hoping for a iPod video next Tuesday but this thing definitely isn't it. The corners are too rounded compared to the other iPods. I'll take new iPods or PowerMacs next Tuesday.
A pocket projector is the answer to the small screen problem! That just leaves audio... I guess if you wanted to project the video onto a wall, you could just sit there with your iPod and listen to it through the headphones.
I was at an Apple Store today and was asking one of the associates for some information regarding the iPods and I was asking about if he knew of any newer iPods coming cause I saw that the iPods seem to be getting smaller and I wanted something with more storage that was smaller than the current iPod but larger than the Mini. He said that they may be getting some new iPods next week. He said that they are having the press conference next week but hinted to me that I didn't hear anything from him. Let's hope.
Hey No. 20, are there any pictures of the posters?
I would love to see them.
Well, I'm not 100% sure about the whole video iPod thing, but I'm deffinatly going to wait for a little while before getting a nano.
The BBC thing doesn't really carry much weight in my book, I mean why would apple tell the media about something days before it happened? That just seems really stupid on apples part.
Why would they remove it? Uh, if you posted some innacurate information on your website, you'd remove it too ;) But of course, there is always the possibility.
Josh
I'd say the BBC is a little better than "unnamed sources."
It seems to reason that the BBC aren't gonna' muck something like this up, seeings as they are supposedly HOSTING something to do with it...
P.S. I got my tip recognised...woo!! I am now in the hallowed(ish) halls of engadgetness. well, my name is anyway... so not THAT impressive...hmm..
Josh: Read the story. BBC is probably providing content for the video itunes thing, plus Apple is going to announce it at an event run by the BBC. Sounds like a good reason to know for me.
MSNBC is full of engadget references. Just search their page for engadget, there is a ton of hits.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/6music_aod.shtml?6music/6m_news
u can listen to it, but it says apple is expected, not apple will they could just be reporting on the hype about this also....
Let's be hones both the BBC and ThinkSecret are pretty reliable (the BBC more so) - so what shall we expect maybe three more things? Or Apple will announce the computer in a separate press release - Apple will not be making a MAJOR new PowerBook or PowerMac only a year (or even two) away from the Intel move so there's no reason for the event unless it's for the iPod. BBC content will be cool!
The audio has not been pulled from the BBC 6 Music site. If you have realplayer follow this link to the 6 Music News on the BBC Radio Player, the story is about two minutes in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/6music_aod.shtml?6music/6m_news
What about an iTunes Movie Store, or Video Store, an Airport Express that can stream video . . . And no video iPod? Upgrade current iPods to greater storage capacities, perhaps some design and software changes, but no video iPod.
That covers everything: iPod announcements, movie/video announcements, no video iPod because Jobs still doesn't like tiny video players -- for good reason.
well if all of this is true, I hope we're not stuck watching ugly british people with their weird british comedy and their britishy accents as the only thing on the really fugly ipod Video.
and really guys. You think anybody watches MSNBC any more? This site probably get 10 times as many viewers as MSNBC does. In fact MSNBC is probably loving how their name is being mentioned so many times in the comments here.
Hm...BBC says "Apple is to unveil" before the "expected to" part.
What's that I hear...?? The sound of a millions of G4 iPods being posted on eBay.. saaaaaaaaay whaaaaaaaa?!
The picture is fake but the unit is not. It is not going to be release by apple (unless they license it) but in korea it is being calling the video ipod as well this nick name has been picked up by most US news site. do a google search for "viliv p1"
http://www.pmpevent.com/p1_photo/p1.html
This was also on News 24 a couple of hours ago.
"Hows about we all calm down, put our lifesize posters of Steve Jobs back under our beds "
GAH!!! I thought the reverse when I read that. I wonder if there is anyone with life sized posters above their bed. [hits the mental erase button...TOO LATE...OH GOD BSOD TO THE BRAIN!!]
That video iPod picture has to be a photoshop: the main reason? the screen isn't perfectly center.. if apple to release a video ipod, i'd imagine they'd put the screen directly in the middle of the damn thing.. if invert the colors you can see that it isn't center.
(inverted "video ipod")
http://www.hutd.net/images/ipod.jpg
PS- Wasn't the above picture proven to be a Toshiba Pocket PC? Why are you still using it?
just to tell you Mr Sage (nr.20) that i'm living in Paris two and i've not seen any poster of any video ipod (i would definitely call it vPod) nowhere around. I still hope to see it next week everywhere in NY Soho.
Then I know you can find good mushrooms in Paris ;-)
I prefer this design:
http://www.mobilemagazine.com/archives/2005/09/rd_apple_ipod
This is just weird. I blogged about this earlier today, and even submitted a photoshop image to Engadget about what I thought the thing would look like:
http://www.jasonjackson.com/blog/images/new_vid_ipod_w_bm.jpg
My version is dead on. Cool. If it has a 100GB drive and at least 4 hours of video, I am so in.
Sorry for the wrong link:
http://www.mobilemagazine.com/archives/2005/09/rd_apple_ipod_m.html
or
http://xataka.com/archivos/2005/09/16-ipod-video-o-movie.php
Here is a verbatim transcription that I personally did of the BBC 6 radio clip:
"Apple is to unveil a new video iPod at the BBC Television Center in London on October the 12th, the company is expected to reveal details of the new MP3 and video player as well as video bundles to be available from the companies iTunes stores."
Can't you people just wait a few days. So it's a video ipod. Cool. It'll be big, expensive, and people will want it. So what?
Yes,no,maybe so, the 12th will tell. But I think the main question, when and if it does release, is what format(s) will it support. I currently watch video everday during my commute on my palm T3 using the free TCPMP player, 29 FPS perfectly synced audio for mpg and avi files. I certainly wouldn't interested in using only "supplied" content from Apple. JMTC