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Friday’s announcement from Yahoo! Video touted a “wider viewing experience,” in addition to more content, bigger files and more sharing opportunities. And then there are those who ask whether another user-generated video site is what we really need.

Then there’s Apple TV Take Two. Steve Jobs and Apple continue to suggest that integration, convergence and usability might help consumers make the switch from TV as they know it to greater reliance on broadband and computing for downloadable video (including movie rentals).

Regardless of where things will ultimately end up, TV set sales are still big business (you may have seen coverage recently suggesting that men would still make considerable sacrifices in order to get a 50-inch TV display. We might as well ask: what would you be willing to give up for a big TV?

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Also, Kevin spews his Mac-cult inspired thoughts on Steve Jobs delivering the keynote at CES 2009

See the Flickr photo set for this podcast.

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This is not the first time his collection has been seen on the Web. After he first posted photos of it on his Flickr account, the collection was seen on several prominent blogs and social networking sites, including the front page of Digg (twice!), Macworld, Mac Life, and Engadget. But Podtech and LO-FI SAINT LOUIS are proud to bring the first video look at this amazing collection — amazing not for its size but the loving care Jeremy took in displaying these machines. Thanks to Walkie Talkie USA for providing the great Bowiesque soundtrack for this video.

Also there’s a bit of tech satire at the end of this video that you might enjoy — it’s from the sketch comedy group Flapping Crane. Special thanks to them for permission to use their clip.

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You can also watch TextMate’s screencasts of the product in action here.

Click here for transcript.

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Photo Credit: schwa23 via Flickr/Creative Commons

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Here is a video of Steve in 1984 introducing the Mac. The only difference in my opinion is that he has less hair now.

PodTech News was there yesterday livepodcasting and have posted a series of podcasts summaries and photos sets here, here, and here. Scott Beale may have some photos at his site.

Apple continues to be a popular cultural company. For example at PodTech our “Apple Voices” podcast series is currently #1 on iTunes under the Business category.

This story should generate an active conversation within the Apple fan base and hard core community members.

More than one fifth of the businesses at Mac world 2006 in San Francisco display products that in one way or the other are connected to the iPod. With Apple selling 32 million units in 2005 alone many see a huge market in dressing and accessorizing the players.
PodTech News spoke with a few of the exhibitors on the show floor to find how they would be lining up for a slice of iPod pie.

The biggest news this year, of course, is we announced that we were going to shift to using Intel processors in Macs. We are going to put an Intel processor inside an iMac. We’re going to offer it in the same sizes, 17 and 20-inch. We’re going to offer it in the same award winning design. We’re going to offer it with the same features. We’re going to offer it for the same prices. So what’s different? We are building in … the new Intel Core Duo. Each of these processors is faster than the G5, and there’s two of ‘em. Chart of specs: SPECint_rate2000 of 32.6, that’s 3.2x faster than old iMac. SPECfp_rate2000: 27.1 for a 2.1x boost. Every iMac has now got dual processors. In refering to the Intel processors inside the new Apple Macs a new ad campaigns main them is…” It’s been trapped inside PCs. Dutifully performing dull little tasks…”

Today we are introducing … the MacBook Pro. It’s a new name because we’re kind of done with power, and we want the Mac name in our products. The same dual-processor as the iMac in every model. This is hard to believe: 4-5x faster than the PowerBook G5. These things are screamers.”

One inch thin, 5.6 pounds. Backlit keyboard with ambient light sensor, scrolling trackpad, sudden motion sensor. DVI video out for 30-inch monitors. $1999 1.67 Code Duo, 512 MB RAM, 80GB, 4x superdrive, Aiprort Extreme. $2499 for faster model.

Today, we’re introducing the next revision, iLife ‘06, and it’s a giant release.”

“Something incredibly new: Photocasting. This is Podcasting for photos.”It works through .Mac. You can set a password. “Whenever there’s a change, those changes will get downloaded right into their subscription album. They can make their cards with them, they can set their desktop pictures with them… We use industry standard RSS, so anyone can subscribe - you don’t even need a Mac.”

“Next up is iMovie. Last year we added HD, and boy was that a good idea .. the prices of cameras are continuing to drop. For this year we’re adding somtehing called Animated Themes. I’ll just show you.” More important: Export to iPod, Video Podcasts.

“So, we built a website in a few minutes here that’s got four pages, my photo album, podcasts, and my blog … this is what iWeb is about.. Rich media to share with all of your family.” Same $79 price as before. “In addition we have a $99 family pack that lets you put it onto 5 computers.

Increasingly, we want to share (things) over the Internet … increasingly, a lot of us want to build a web site. So today we are introducing a sixth app into the iLife suite to let us do exactly that. To share photos … video podcasts … music … blogs … we call this new app iWeb.”

“Garage Band: We have added a podcast authoring studio.” It has: Artwork track, 200 royalty-free sound effects, 100 jingles, automatic ducking (?) for audio, and a speech enhancer.” You can use iChat for remote interviews. Steve’s going to create a podcast. “Hi, I’m Steve and welcome to my weekly podcast, Super-secret Apple Rumors.” (huge laughs) “I have some pretty good sources inside Apple, and the next iPod is going to be HUGE, like 8 pounds … See you next week.”

“Next up, iDVD. We’ve added Widescreen Menus now .. enough of us have widescreen TVs. We’ve got something new called Magic iDVD.”

It’s apple’s anniverary, “30 years making the best personal computers in the world.”

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