“A reader from MacRumors forwarded an e-mail that he/she had received from Apple regarding whether there would be a live stream available via the web for next week’s highly-anticipated keynote speech at Macworld San Francisco (which will, again, take place at 9am Pacific Time at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA on January 10th),” Jacqui Cheng reports for Ars technica. The e-mail reads:
Thank you for your email. A replay will be available on http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mac.html – but there are no plans for live streaming.
Cheng reports, “There has not been a live stream for a keynote address for a while now, which has saddened loyal Apple fans around the world, although there will still be streaming replays available afterwards as per the usual protocol these days. There are, however, always a number of sites that attempt to give live coverage via the web from the keynote itself (many of which often crash and burn in an ugly, firey server death at keynote time).”
Full article here.
Bookmark it now! We plan to cover Jobs’ keynote presentation live with bulleted text updates on a special “lite” web page here:
MacDailyNews & iPodDailyNews – Live Coverage of Macworld Expo 2006 Keynote
We hope to see just what our new server setup can achieve this time around. The link to the replay stream of the keynote should be added later in the day after Job’s keynote here: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/appleevents/
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If they had live streaming for this one, surely the internet would close down?!?!
Love being on MDN early…!
Enjoyed the MDN coverage last time, even though your servers were buried. Looking forward to Tuesday…
Macaday:
Actually, predictions out of MIT indicate that live streaming on the internet of a Stevenote would rend a small hole in the space-time continuum creating a spectacular event horizon and ending this instance of our multiverse. Luckily, the underground lab rats at Infinite Loop came to a similar conclusion. There you have it.
Hey MDN, don’t bother unless things are significantly different (better) this time around. The results weren’t worth the effort.
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I wonder if the decision to not webcast live was driven by the inability for the technology to handle the volume of traffic. I could be wrong, but I would think the live Apple MacWorld keynotes were one of the largest live internet webcasts ever.
Can anyone think of another webcast that potentially had a larger live internet audience?
Best of luck with avoding the “ugly, firey server death” problems.
I don’t understand why they stopped showing these events at the Apple stores since it seems like great free advertising.
The last one i went to in Cambridge (the music event where Sarah Mclachlan sang) a bunch of people wandered into the store asking what we were all doing. It is pretty funny to watch non-Apple people wondering why anyone would take time out their day to watch the head of a tech company introduce new products. Most of them ended up staying around …
For those of you wondering what “ugly, firey server death” looks like:
Remember kids, a picture is worth several terabytes of ones and zeroes.
I miss the live feed, but I must admit the thrill of having five or six tabs open with various sites who are covering the Expo, and the anticipation of waiting for them to update every two minutes is strangely fun.
Christmas is but six days away!
The inability of the technology to handle the demand of a live webcast is probably a part of the reason, but I suspect there is more to it than just that. I have to think Apple is taking a cue from some of some of Bill Gates public embarassments.
I wish one of the cable/sat channels would broadcast the event live. The now destroyed TechTV broadcast a Stevenote a few years ago. It was great.
yep, no live streams for the time being. Only way is to get to by invite-only places with satellite connection.
I’ll be at the BBC event on the 10th.
I’M GOING TO BE THERE!
I wish MDN luck. I’ve always found it pointless to try to read MDN on an Apple-event day. I’ll give their new page a try, but I fear I’ll end up doing what I always do, getting links from MacSurfer and finding one that will load.
Oh no, how sad am I, I recognised the plasticy lumpy thing on the right of the JPG as a Dell before I noticed the charred badge!
there will also be live coverage at
http://www.AppleNews.info
Brandon: put a red carnation so I’ll spot you on Tuesday
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so Steve Jobs didn’t like me at the columbus Airport back in the 90’s not did he like my real PHb on top secret stuff jpeg ha. maybe it was my questions or my type of registresion XMradio LL Cool J is hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! try kurzweil or maybe bose or how about xerox for a voice touch gui Imac irobot ihuuuuuuuuddah the sultans daughter is waiting 1 bit is not for them please fix that oh and me HAL!!!!!!!!!!! not a I.A. have a nice day:)
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I agree with many here, that having live feeds of Steve Jobs keynote is great, especially if you live on the other side of the planet. However, I have never had any luck accessing these feeds, even with my work’s nice broadband connection. I can barely view the speeches that Apple puts on their own web site. Thank God some of you guys that are attending will be on IRC and other alternative methods of communications. Good job. Thanks a lot.
Didn’t live feeds stop shortly after they started signing big artists to perform at the keynotes? Some of those performances have been absent from the “replay” streams. It seems that some artists’ contracts are limiting their audience to the people actually at the event.
I wonder if the feeds wil ever become available for purchase through the iTunes store. I for one would buy the replay.