Apple has posted Steve Jobs' Macworld Tokyo keynote for viewing using QuickTime.
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I just tried to open the website in NN4.7 and IE5 and the Watch It Now QT Movie crashed both browsers!
its really bad quality. The MWSf one is about a 20 times higer bandwidth stream. Also, the crowd doesn't sound too impressed with the new "colors"
Japanese crowds are very polite. You don't get a bunch of monkeys whooping and hollering when Steve shows the new gear.
Me, I would have fainted from screaming at the new Nvida stuff.
Look for better scaling as the bandwidth that Apple has to support is determined; they probably learned a LOT about Live Streaming vs. VOD from Jan in SF--some viewers were locked out completely, according to the posts here.
This "crappier" version is likely more cost-effective also vis-a-vis Akamai --think about it: don't you think Apple might be paying Akamai according to effective distributed bandwidth? If so, much better not to have viewers completely locked out due to the pipes being saturated.
Make sense?
Remember when Buster Dogulas knocked out Mike Tyson for the first time when they were in Japan? There was not a lot of response. US crowds would have been going insane. :)
I'm kind of happy that the new iMacs were introduced in Japan. US crowds probably would have boo'd them off the stage.
Well, it's 11 pm to 2 am for you bandwidth-guzzling Americans. Aren't you all in bed?
I still can't get a peep out of the server. 10 timeouts in a row. I'm giving up for a few hours.
Internet broadcasting: not ready for primetime.
(And don't give me Real vs QuickTime c***. They both suck when the server and pipes can't cope.)
I'm trying to view the keynote, folks.
Go To Bed!
If you're unable to view the keynote because of a message saying that quicktime was running low on memory, don't worry. I too tried to watch the keynote but couldn't. I boosted QuickTime's memory from 8MB to 16MB which wasn't enough. Then I gave QT 32MB. Not until I allocated just over 64MB of RAM to QuickTime was I able to view the keynote. But it was well worth it. I can't wait for OS X!
My wife and I attended the keynote the other day. I thought the audience was really excited about quite a few things. Perhaps it just didn't register on the mikes they were using. Also, you have to remember that most people here don't understand spoken English. They handed out small FM radios to everyone in the audience so they could listen to a live translation in Japanese. However, this caused a delay of several seconds in each reaction as the translation was made. Perhaps that is why the crowd didn't seem as responsive as you would have expected.
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I just tried to watch the Keynote, and I received an error message that said that "Couldn't open the mov." It was an Apple error message on a PC! How cool is that.