“Tonight Apple will produce its first-ever live event streamed to the iPhone: a concert by the electronica band Underworld. Apple has apparently kept the event quiet as it doesn’t want to overwhelm the AT&T network, but if you have an iPhone you can queue it up yourself at iphone.akamai.com or underworldlive.com. The show starts at 9 p.m. PT and the stream is free.”
More info here.
[Attribution: The Apple Blog. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]
testing…1…2…3…testing….
A taste of the future.
This will be the start of something big.
Now, run the lables outta business
It looks from links like this happened last night?
Check out The Dead app. It let’s you stream every show from their spring 09 tour as well as other cool stuff. This should be big going forward.
One need 3.n to view the stream. 🙁
Guess it’s time to upgrade my first gen self broken in iPhone.
Sadly this looks like it happened Friday night.
The funny thing is that when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he envisioned it as a way to stream concerts, lectures, and the like, live to homes. He was not thinking of the person to person calling that telephones have overwhelmingly been used for over their history.
(And he did not call it “streaming”, a modern word for his original idea. Don’t know what he called it.)
qka – Cool trivia. Thanks.
I remember when MTV first aired live concerts “simulcast” in stereo over select radio stations before stereo television was commonplace. Like Underworld, the first acts they aired were fairly obscure. I think Bob Welch (“Ebony Eyes,” “Sentimental Lady”) was one of the very first concerts. Stevie Nicks and a few other guests showed up, too. I can vividly recall thinking stereo t.v. would be so frickin’ awesome…
qka: that an interesting story, thanks.
(To be correct, though, Bell did not invent the telephone, but was the first to patent it — smart and shrewd move of his.)
some Italian invented it
so basically bell’s the bill gates of telephony
Thanks for the timely heads up, MDN. :S
Always on the cutting edge: “42 years ago today, June 25 1967. The Beatles premiere the song “All You Need Is Love” on a worldwide TV broadcast to an estimated 400 million people.
‘Our World’ was the first live, international, satellite television production.”
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5df_1245971466&c=1
Looks like MDN put my link up too late. I was hoping they would put it up last light while the gig was still on. There was a 2 hour session by Underworld which I caught some of. Very clear although there was a slight lag on the audio.
Great gig.
I spotted the link on the Apple Investor News url that MDN put up a while back
http://www.techinvestornews.com/Apple/page-one.html
It refreshes every 15 minutes.
Guglielmo Marconi was the first guy to experiment with telephony
http://www.marconicalling.com/
Why is why there is a commuincations company in his name.
Chris, qka, flappo, DeRS, et al …
Naw, the first to “stream” a Live Event ?
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Sitting at home, the akamai site works on my Mac, but on my iPhone 3G with 3.0 it only shows a black screen, tried with Cell network and WiFi.
if only Tesla was around to see this; he also was a super-visionary, underrated to the extreme.
Actually, Marconi worked on radio telegraphy and not the telephone. There was a lot of work done on communicating over wires including Edison, but Bell was the one who was able to make a financial success of it.
is working great on my ipod touch 2g. music’s pretty good, visuals are totally trippy =)
AKA
I beleive “In Concert” was doing FM Stereo simulcast back in the 70s.
Or maybe it was “Midnight Special”
for some reason, my memory is foggy…
TT
We won’t go into any, ahem, “reasons”
But think you be correct-a-mundo
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so is very po-popular…
If readers are going to troll the other sites for MacDailyNews, at least someone can actually fact check it a bit before it’s actually published, eh?
I believe MacNN was the first to report this, and they gave us 3 hours of advance notice before the event. It was good too. Barely a hiccup in video or sound.