Get me a bit of that pie!

1. With the excitement bubbling over the Apple Media Event on October 12th the rumour mill has been crankin’ its little mill off, with rumors of almost everything being introduced — iPod video (well who knows, they switched to Intel didn’t they?), Dual Core PowerMacs (about time), updated PowerBooks (ABOUT TIME!), Airport Extreme with video out (again, ABOUT TIME!). My prediction for October 12th is that it will be one of or a combination of these things: iTunes Movie Store, possibly in conjunction with an iPod video and/or Airport Extreme Video, Dual Core PowerMac to be introduced and lastly, the first of the Intel PowerBooks. Yeah baby, black ultra thin Intel powered PowerBook so I can play games and work on the one machine. Wooo-ha!

2. (Disclaimer: I’m totally full of shit. Those were total guesses and bear no relation to anything remotely close to being evidence. But, this is supposed to be the Year of HD, and what better way to start the run to the holiday season than with an iTunes Movie Store and an iPod video?)

3. (Hot damn I’d laugh if I got any of that right. You read it here first.)

UPDATE: Well I wasn’t that far off. iPod that does video, iTMS that sells TV episodes (for a very reasonable $1.99 per episode). But, two things bother me — it’s very particular about the video spec, it has to be under 786kb/s and 320×240, it has to be H.264 or quicktime compatible, which practically rules out the TV I record on my PVR unless I re-encode it. This may include all the videos I’ve taken with my digital camera, that would suck if I had to re-encode to see it on the iPod. Secondly, the 30GB iPod has only 2 hours battery life when playing video, with the 60GB marginally better at 3 hours. That is teh suck.

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