does it really matter if its the Beatles? h***, anyone who cares already has their music. No one's going to be buying 'remastered' versions of the same music they already have, certainly not in a lossy version that loses all the gains of the remastering.

Remastering is not lost in good AAC encoding. The loss of AAC encoding is nothing like deteriorating old tapes.

However, I do agree that it'd be foolish to buy version that you already have, but younger people will buy when they see all the hype.

I always thought the Beatles were overrated myself. Most Beatles songs that I like weren't even written by them.

...that realizes this is likely to announce the European iPhones which they said would be available by end of year, and there has been all kinds of press lately about deals getting signed with carriers there? Not to mention Apple has a tendancy to release something that totally defeats the purpose of recent hackings shortly after they happen. Anyone remember who Blanka and Narf are after BootCamp came out? Give it a few weeks and you'll be saying Geohot who?

That isn't to say new iPods aren't a good probability as well, I just can't imagine that they won't release the European iPhones at this event. Everything lines up far to well.

[In the past few months, three of the four members of the Beatles have reached agreements to put their music on iTunes]

I knew George was talented but really, negotiating from the grave, that's a good trick.

Has anyone noticed a lot of iPod coverage still portrays the iPod as what saved the company? Why journalists (if you can call it journalism) think Apple was somehow doomed before the iPod is beyond me. All I can figure is that these same people were not familiar with the company prior to the iPod. We've seen the doomsday stuff come and go over the years. You'd think by now people would get the idea that the analysts haven't had a clue in ages when it comes to Apple.

The rumor mill sure is churning around this event. Gotta laugh at media hype sometimes.

>> In the past few months, three of the four members of the Beatles have reached agreements to put their music on iTunes

Hmmm.... so if Lennon and Harrison are dead, I wonder who the third (of the four) member was that agreed to put his music on iTunes? ;-)

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