Shots of a device showing an Apple “iPod AV” have made their way online over at iPod-CLUB.
Apple’s special media event is scheduled for Tuesday, September 12, 10am local time at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater (http://www.ybca.org/), 700 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA.
Real or fake?
Full size shots via iPod-CLUB here.
Well, these shots are definitely in focus, at least.
[UPDATE: 2:48pm EDT: MacRumors.com has these same images under the heading “A collection of mockup and unverified images of the rumored Video iPod. Posted on March 5, 2006. This has been revealed to be a fake.” Instead of simply pulling this article, which may lend credence to these fakes, we have updated the headline, added the red “fake” text to the image, and added this update text. We apologize. We’re dopey with anticipation and excitement for tomorrow’s event.]
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If this is legit, SOMEBODY’s getting sued.
I wonder if they can keep the price points the same?
Yeah, but someone just commented these are old and confirmed fakes on the other thread here…?
Dear Santa:
Please visit the Apple Store after the release of the iPod AV. In addition, bypass Dec, send tomorrow, and take the winter off. Thanks.
SWEET
MDN: you are just trolling for hits. These shots have been around for months. In fact you already posted them as fakes.
Weren’t these photos confirmed fake a few months back??
The “other thread” had faked pictures. These “look” a lot more real.
but if it is real I’ll buy it tomorrow. The current iPod (video) is still (yet) not enough to make me get a newer iPod model. This one would do.
they definitely look real, and beautiful.
If it didn’t say “iPod AV” on the back, I might actually give it a slight chance of being legitimate. Whoever created this photoshop did a nice job, but forgot that Apple has learned its lesson about calling its full-size iPods anything other than “iPod”.
These pictures look pretty legit. What’s really interesting though is the movie shown on the iPodAV – “Ice Age 2”. That film is a 20th Century Fox release and the early scuttlebutt was that Apple and Jobs only had Disney’s library of films available — no other studios. If Fox is on board, then it’s great to see other movie studios jumping on the bandwagon!
show me a video mkay thanks.
MW: sure. lol
Bill Palmer is right.
The iPod photo was a relatively failure – people didn’t want to buy a “special” iPod that cost a lot more just to get a color screen and photo capability.
Apple quietly retired the iPod photo and introduced the exact same features in all of its iPods, as standard. When the 5G iPods came out, Apple conspicuosly chose it not to call it “iPod Video” like every rumor site had come to calling them. Instead, it was simply “iPod” and now everyone just refers to them as the 5G iPods.
“iPod AV” is a name that only photoshopping geeks could love. Which is the biggest evidence against these photos being real.
Besides, I think Apple could do better than this literal, unimaginative design of a full-screen iPod.
http://fakepod.blogspot.com/
ipod-club is down, apple-zealot effect from MDN or are Apples Lawyer dogs hard in action?
These images date from March 2006:
http://guides.macrumors.com/Gallery_of_Video_iPod_Mockups
Definitely fake, although if the next iPod looked like this it’d be cool.
Exactly. The fact that these are called iPod AV is the dead giveaway that these are fakes. Apple will not change the name of their full-sized iPod.
I’m sure I saw these exact same photos like a year ago. I remember everyone speculating on the meaning of the “Ice Age” shot back then too.
Wasn’t there something about the time elapsed in the “Ice Age” shot being wrong?
oh got to the site now, server problems i guess? ^_^
oh, and FAKE -> http://fakepod.blogspot.com/
Here is a nice video of someone making a similar iPod
And only 40 GB for an AV model????? 40????
That makes me think it’s fake… but who knows… it’s a really good fake if it is.
Even if these are Photoshop chef d’oeuvres, they are really nice. I dig the moire on the display. Very clever.
http://fakepod.blogspot.com/
Thank you, Al
It’s a shame that MDN just throws this shit up (like they do Thurrott’s crap). I’m learning to expect less and less from MDN’s links and articles. Pity.
nice try but the “AV” is standing while the “iPod” has the appropriate perspective. obvious fake.
NewType,
I bought the current version of the iPod because of those “special” features. It cost the same as the older model’s. I used this to update my G2 iPod.
Here is the guy who created the fakes and step by step pictures of what he did. Just scroll down.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=185894
pretty cool…