I really hope the video iPod thing is true...ti toc

I hope the iPod part is true...tic-toc

I can't believe I'm actually excited about this crap. I swore I'd never become a Nintendo-loving macwhore.

Never have I seen so many people get so excited about a company's newest efforts to take their cash.

Hmmm...Gizmodo, must be nice having contacts among the angels! Me? I was more excited by the Tivo Series 3 write-up! :)

This has been popping up everywhere. The significance of that fact, I'm not sure. But it seems somehow significant...

Never have I seen so many people get so excited about a company's newest efforts to take their cash

You must not follow the Wii news, huh?

This looks extremely plausible. It may just be a cunning synthesis of what's out there, but the 'get to the damn point already' style and 'Tubeport' product name (only 117 hits as of this moment) are simply dead on. Hope the tipster used an anonymizer, because if this is legit, Apple's not gonna be happy about it. What a scoop, and an unprecedented leak if true! It should be an interesting morning tomorrow....

It doesn't make sense to have 2 versions of each movie. The iPod quality is more than enough for most TVs and there aren't enough HD users to have HD connections standard yet. There may be a new iPod, but I don't think there's a box for the living room quite yet.

oh... one more thing....

TubePort?!??! WTF kind of name is that? I could understand iSee or MacLink but TubePort? That screams fake to me.

DeadWriter

It's basically like this for all of Apple's annoucements, and it's been a while since they announced anything iPod related.

ipod res is not enough for most TVs. but this solution isn't great either. now if the new ipod supports higher res videos (and wide ones at that) that might be good enough for most tvs.

wtf.

wow.
now how am I going to go to sleep tonight?

Is it so hard to just wait and see what Apple has to say?

How many articles does it take to say "Apple is going to have a press conference tomorrow?"

That's sweet, I can't wait till I still can't afford the next iPod!

The whole pricing scheme is ridiculous for me. They take out the most expensive part of the DVD structure (ie. production and distribution), yet... (and here's the clincher), they still charge the same amount. Not only that... its also harder to take that movie over to your buddy's house.

Color me skeptical, but if the price doesn't come down I will give Apple a big middle finger.

pictures of a widescreen ipod have already been reported being fakes. so, I wouldn't give too much for that e-mail.

also, 14.99 euro per movie in high quality is way too expensive (you can buy the movie as a dvd for less on amazon.com)

The widescreen ipod has already been reported as a fake (there were images around). So, don't give too much for that e-mail.

Also, the movie pricing scheme seems ridiculous, as already reported several times.
You can buy a full-featured DVD at Amazon for 14 Dollars/Euros (whatever the pricing would be in Euros)

iPod quality videos look like garbage on my TV. I stopped paying for The Daily show because I couldn't stand watching it.

An interesting idea, but I don't like the streaming idea. This makes it sound like I can't keep a copy of it, and can only watch it where I have a fast net connection. That would suck.

Make it better than DVD's and I'll buy.

No change to ipod nano? They were supposed to put there some extra memory, not extra battery life /which is nice indeed/!

PLEASE LET THIS BE REALLLLL

TubePort?
sounds fake to me... it lack the sterotipical "i" or "Mac", if it were iTube, iPort, MacTube or MacPort...i dont believe it...but time will tell.

I dig the $99 TubePort concept if what I downloaded was a DVD-quality rental file on a 48 hour timer for $3-5, and if i could also use the TubePort for streaming any video (or audio) from my hard drive to the TV via a FrontRow interface. But at $14? At $10? Nah.

Also, if it really is called a "TubePort" Jobs has officially lost his touch. Or perhaps has lost touch full stop.

well iSee is just a silly name. And MacLink is a great name, but would really kind of limit the market rather than expand it -- if it's an object meant to work with an app that anyone can use, they want it to mean all computers . . .

that said, tubeport is a silly name too.

TubePort.

Search through all search engines and tell me if this Jobs guy did a very tricky naming scheme to his products. I see that almost all of his naming scheme comes from the top search words on most major search engines. So the chance of his products coming up on top of the search engine would be at a very high rate.

alanhchang@hotmail.com

TubePort.

Search through all search engines and tell me if this Jobs guy did a very tricky naming scheme to his products. I see that almost all of his naming scheme comes from the top search words on the next from the major search engines. So the chance of his product coming up on top of the search engine would be at a very high rate.

alanhchang@hotmail.com

The only thing I could get excited about with Apple at this point is, a PDA type device OR an iPhone... OR, a very cheap yet powerful car computer :-P

now that will be worthwhile, a mac os x car computer.wont crash as often as windows

I feel like the Desperate Venture Capitalist in Dilbert.

TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!!

bluetooth widescreen ipod? I'm all over that one. I need a new photobank anyways. If only they would let me write and run little programs on it. Then I could geocode my photos automatically during import if the bluetooth signal on my GPS is in range. mmm possibilities.

Whoops, slipped off my pipe dream.

Tubeport sounds like ass (not the just the name, the product and pricing too).

I don't really understand how everyone loves Apple. Basically, they are releasing:

1) An HDTV Out
2) Streaming Video
3) Yet another iPod

And all for awful prices. Maybe, MAYBE the HDTV out will be nice, but the iTMS video cost is ridiculous. Why not just buy the dvd and rip it yourself? And has anyone ever tried to watch video on their pods? Its....painful. Another iPod....YAY! Now I can get something else that replaces what I already have! CAUSE ITS BRUSHED METAL ZOMG WHERE DO THEY COME UP WITH THIS????

I also dislike how Apple always releases things with enough fanfare to make you believe that they actually invented it instead of just using existing ideas and making a pretty package. And Apple fans just eat it up in a particularly pretentious way. I have this picture of the typical Mac user with a beret on sipping espresso from a tiny mug, talking in a fake French accent. Just hurts.

Tubeport isn't the name, tubeport.com is registered to what looks like a domain hawker in Hong Kong.

Faster Macbooks with Dual Core 2 processors ?

tubeport. that sounds like something i'd find on urbandictionary.com, somewhat related to a jelly donut, a cleveland steamer, or a donkey punch.

I would think, the next step after the widescren vPod would be integrating a real OS in it - and its probablly already capable of it - ir just hiding on us ;)

All a communicator PDa needs is WiFi and a 3G conenction. With all the VOIP happiness out there with Vonage (etc) google talk, AIM talk, yahoo with voice.. you really dont need a cellphone anymore - especially with Skype.

The mylo has it right - now give it 3G so we dont have to rely on a WiFi connection! (w0ot)

yeah, i hope this is true. i'm banking a lot on the new ipod. i actually sold mine yesterday and rolled the dice that jobs isn't gonna let me down this time...i'd hate to have to waste/lose money buying ANOTHER ipod that doesn't have any new features!

if not i'm gonna give apple a cincinnati hotplate. dargo, i think you know what THAT is (;

gay^2

Everybody needs to get a life, me thinks.

yeah 'iSee' is silly, all Apple products should just be called 'iPay', cuz we know we will...

:-)

I'm pretty sure a TubePort is what my mom is about to have put in so they can inject the Chemo.

I bought some LOST episodes from the iTunes store, and I was very pleasantly surprised that low-res and compression were rarely perceivable on my SD TV.

The great thing about the TubePort would be streaming OTHER video content to your TV. Screw buying over-priced movies from Apple, what about seeing all the other video content from your computer? Sad thing is, Apple may cripple it so it only plays video from iTunes (like they did with the Airport Express).

crap, didn't see anything about increased size (80+ gig)...lets hope that changes

Can't use the name "MacLink" (it was already used for the document conversion product MacLinkPlus). But yeah, Tube-anything sounds silly.

JasonCo: "Color me skeptical, but if the price doesn't come down I will give Apple a big middle finger."

I'm right there with you Jason. Does apple really think it can charge $19.99 per movie when you can do FAR less with its DRM crap compaired to a DVD that you can usually get for less than said $19.99? Unfortunetly, yes. People are actually going to buy into this :(

Apple and Sony should just team up to come out with more ways to screw the end user. Most people who read this site know how to rip a DVD, so we're not spending this kind of cash on a downloaded movie, its the "normal" people that are getting screwed by apple and the movie companies.

I can't wait till I hear the stories of people who have spent hundreds of dollars on their iTunes movie collection and accidentally try syncing their vPods with their new MacBook and wiping it all away... poor suckers.

Does this mean the internet realy is a series of tubes?

Tubeport sounds so lame that it has to be real.

"TubePort" sounds lame, but then again "iPod" also sounded pretty lame back in the day.

That said, I hope this isn't the real lineup for today. I'm holding out for a Core 2 Duo Mac Book and I'm getting tired of waiting.

TubeSteak!

Tubeport sounds like something that belongs around a computer. Just remember, the internet is NOT a truck...who would want a "TruckPort" on their desk?

Can't Macs already stream audio/video to a TV? My PC can with the addition of a long RCA cable, and I use it for this frequently. Why do you need a $99 jobber?

Anyone ever look at the transfer speed of bluetooth? No way you can see a movie over bluetooth...

An updated Airport Express to handle video would also be nice.

Wifi would seem more of a possibility...

did anyone notice that every tech website out there got this same email? some kids having the time of his life *no one ignores me anymore*.

I think rumor boy made one mistake tho, its not tubeport its...iTubePort, n then theres the iTubePort accessory tube socks called iTubeSockTubePort...available immediately!

"Apple and Sony should just team up to come out with more ways to screw the end user. Most people who read this site know how to rip a DVD, so we're not spending this kind of cash on a downloaded movie, its the "normal" people that are getting screwed by apple and the movie companies."

Apple isn't screwing anyone, man. Get your facts straight.

You can decide that this service is stupid and you don't like it and that's your right, but Apple gets pennies on each song, TV show, (and now presumably) movie that it sells.

So if you think the pricing is too high, put the blame where is belongs: on the content providers (so, yes, Sony is a fine target). In fact, Apple has already been fighting tooth-and-nail to keep music pricing where it is.

If it weren't for Apple, the only legal download options would be subscriptions and whatever the record companies wanted to charge for new tracks (two bucks, three bucks, four bucks? We know they tried to charge five or six bucks for the thankfully short-lived "cassette single").

Apple has little-to-nothing to do with either pricing or DRM.

Zadaz:

The streaming part is just to get the movie from your computer (where the movie lives in your iTunes library as your own property) to your television (where you can watch it from your couch, as God intented).