BBC 6 Music broadcasts the latest news and music news every hour. The current online audio report (total run time: 5:00 min.) states, “Apple is set to unveil a new video iPod at the BBC Television Centre 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 company’s iTunes stores.” The Apple portion of the report starts at 4:06.
Go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/ and click “Listen to the latest music news” in the “Music News” section or try the direct link to the report here.
You can also access the direct stream via RealPlayer here: rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/6music/6m_news.ra
So, you wanna watch BBC video podcasts on your new Apple iPod video? Who knows? Video iPods, PowerBooks, Power Macs, levitation machines, time travel devices, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, with chicks, and guns, and fire trucks, and hookers, and drugs, and booze, and lions and tigers and bears, oh my! And only seven days left before the official event.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews reader “Hywel” for the heads up.]
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Funny. Folks pick up stories from the rumor sites and this is the result. Mass hysteria.
Apple surely knows how to create a buzz.
Real player … do they still exist?
But this is the BBC in London reporting an event at the BBC in London next week. Maybe they got wrong, maybe nobody told the 6 Music guys to keep schtum.
I heard a Ghostbusters quote!
“Yes it’s true, this man has no d***.”
Oh come on MDN, all the little media outlets are feeding on one another now. There’s no point in reporting who else reports what. No one except those who know, actually know.
If there’s one thing I know for sure, the BBC is pretty much clueless about just about everything.
I have it from a pretty good source that there will either be video iPods or no video iPods or new PowerBooks or no new PowerBooks or new PowerMacs or no new PowerMacs…
Oh wait. My source is MDN.
I wonder if this is what it’s like when there’s terrorism chatter on the communication channels.
Maybe we should raise the Apple Watch Level to ELEVATED.
Is there something wrong with this website today?
theloniousMac,
We’re experiencing extremely heavy traffic today. Otherwise the site is operating fine.
This is the part that’s interesting though, “…at the BBC Television Centre in London on October the 12th.”
Are they doing a separate, special even just in London for this as well? Hmmm…the plot thickens. Or not. I’m pretty confident that it’s a video iPod. Honestly I don’t know what the big deal is. It’s not that Earth-shattering. We all knew they’d do it eventually despite what Steve has said. They probably had to wait for H.264.
Thelonious Mac, are you referring to how slow MDN is today (not the news, the site)? What’s going on? It’s been taking over a minute for the page to load.
See, it took seven minutes! : )
I’m with Hywel on this one – I think it’s significant. We know there’s a joint press conference taking place simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic and this indicates that one of them is taking place in the BBC (who, I seem to recall, have recently adopted a full Mac workflow on their video production). Factor in the fact that the BBC is already big on podcasts etc etc and you have a possible joint announcement.
Remember also that the BBC is not allowed to make any commercial endorsements, so if the press conference is really coming from BBC Television Centre there’s some sort of major technological link up going on.
Hmm, I’m wondering now, is this London gig related to the Olympics somehow? Remember, the Paris introductions got cancelled all of a sudden after the French lost the nomination. Maybe, with all the shockers lately, Apple will finally start an heavy advertising campaign.
Apple, official sponsor of the Olympics?
Er… was that with chicks AND guns, or perhaps with chicks WITH guns? Too sechsie!
Rumors feeding rumors feeding rumors….. My inside sources say “no video iPod”. This will be the last harrah for the PPC. I hope nobody will be bummed out by the VidPod no show. Finally we’ll get a substantial horsepower upgrade to the flagging Powermac pro machines. That’s good news for Powermac power users.
Remember, you got the straight scoop right here on MDN!
“And the flowers are still standing!”
@ thelonius >
Yes, because American news organisations – like Fox – are a model of how news should be presented.
Or then again, maybe not – I’d prefer my news to be occasionally wrong, but genuinely probing the limits of the “official” version of the truth, rather than meekly accepting the view of any given administration on any part of the globe.
Remember it was the BBC that first started questioning the validity of WMD evidence in Iraq and the BBC who were the first mainstream news organisation to bring the horror of famine in Ethiopia to public attention in 1985. Of course, some prefer the controversy of ducks on water skis – because they don’t want any real news to shatter their comfortable little view of the world.
Let’s call a spade a shovel: the BBC is the [B]ONLY[/B] global, editorially independent (i.e. free from advertising influence) news gathering organisation in the world. As opposed to Fox: controlled by an Australian who was so obsessed with dominating the world’s media, he gave up the country he was born in to become an American citizen and yet he still believes he has the right to influence politics here in the UK.
I heard Google was buying Apple.
Back on topic, the BBC are using Apple technology (particularly QT7/H.264) for their Motion Gallery (here at http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/Customer/index.aspx).
Many BBC programmes, that are produced under contract by independent producers, are also edited on FCP (such as Full On Food, which is currently being highlighted by Apple’s Pro site).
Could be a vPod, but it could be a set-top box/PVR that is HD (which is broadly lined up behind MPEG-4/H.264) savvy in readiness for the gradual decommissioning of analogue services around the globe: it should be noted that the World Cup 2006 in Germany will be a major test for HD.
What is a BBC? British are Bloody Crazy? Buy British Cars? British Broadcasting Crap?
Well, just in case I’m going to go and start registering names that combine porn and iPod…
pornopod
iPorn
pornipodia
porncasting
blacksandpods
milfpods
Heh… my magic word is “values”
“…Let’s call a spade a shovel: the BBC is the ONLY global, editorially independent (i.e. free from advertising influence) news gathering organisation in the world. As opposed to Fox: controlled by an Australian who was so obsessed with dominating the world’s media, he gave up the country he was born in to become an American citizen and yet he still believes he has the right to influence politics here in the UK…”
“Editorially Independent?”
Oh the naivety of it all.
iDon’t is right – I’d much prefer a new Mustang which is incapable of going round corners to a Lotus Exige.
And the saga of Nicole and Paris or Kevin and Britney is much more informative than anything that the BBC could produce like, for instance, Panorama or Space Race.
thelonius:
Just because it doesn’t agree with you doesn’t mean it isn’t independent, or does your miniscule intelligence not allow for that.
You can tell how independent the BBC really is, because it has upset successive governments from both sides of the political spectrum (annoying the Conservatives over corruption and “sleaze” of a general nature, especially in the latter years of the Major administration and then upsetting Labour over Iraq and WMD – seemingly correctly, given that everyone now seems to concede that they never existed and indeed have stopped looking for them).
In fact, I’ll start to get worried the day the Government starts telling us what a great job the BBC is doing – because I’ll know that we’re on the verge of Berlusconi-like government control of the state broadcaster. But that’s probably the kind of broadcasting you like.
The BBC has investigated business and governmental organisations, such as BAE Systems (bribes to the Saudi Royal Family) or the former rail authority, Railtrack (failure to maintain safe railways).
Compare that with the unquestioning coverage of ABC or Fox: unwilling to rock the boat lest they lose advertising dollars or draw the ire of the FCC.
So, unless you know what you’re talking about, why don’t you go and watch Nickelodeon which is probably aimed more at your intellect.
MCCFR
“Just because it doesn’t agree with you doesn’t mean it isn’t independent, or does your miniscule intelligence not allow for that.”
Unfortunately, by including the second half of your sentence you’ve guaranteed that he will ignore the (cogent) first half.
Too bad … remember folks, you can disagree without being disagreeable.
6Music is donkey shit. Yeah the event is being beamed to TV Centre, but the BBC IT policy is driven by drongo M$ Lemmings.
PS I work there, and I deal with the sheep shit corporate bollocks everyday
MDN Magic Word “hit” as in I hope the announcement is good :o)