Apple, It’s Showtime

Apple's Steve Jobs is making his keynote address today, you can view LIVE AJAX text updates on this website www.macrumorslive.com.

A lot of exciting things have already been announced like the new iTunes 7 store an excerpt

"We've added a View switch, a 3-position switch. we've added a 2nd view called album view, so you can scroll through your music library and look at it by album. what if you ripped your CDs and don't have the covers? Today we're announcing free missing album cover art for all the music in your library if you have an itune acct. itunes will automatically download it for free but there's something even better. that's the third view. it's called Cover Flow view. [LOOKS LIKE FLIPPLING THROUGH YOUR CD RACK]"

A lot more information can be found on that website.

The keynote video should be available after it's over in a few hours on this link

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/sep_2006/event/index.html as of now there is nothing that is loading there.

Concerning TV shows on iTunes. "Now, all of the video is encoded with the best encoding in the world, H.264. We've been distributing it at 320x240. Today, we're going to take that up a notch to 640x480. That's 4x the resolution. iTunes 7 also has seamless playback for video."

Update:

iPod boxes now show Pirates of the Carribbean
U.S. now, International in 2007.
Dolby surround audio in videos
Near DVD quality. Same encoding as TV shows at 640x480. If you have a 5mb/s broadband connection, it will take approximately 30 minutes to download a movie
most titles will be 9.99
New releases 12.99 preorders and first week, after that up to 14.99
75 films online today, more every week and month

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