Next Apple iDevice
I was playing around with QT6 and QT Broadcaster today, and I thought of a cool idea for the next Apple Device.
What if they released a firewire DV cam, that had no onboard storage? You could hook it up to your mac, and stream stuff using QTB . Hopefully it would be cheap enough so that people wouldn't say "Thats all it does, and it costs HOW much??" Without onboard storage, it would require a mac (kind of like the ipod). Now what would be really neat, is if you could use your iPod for storage ... which makes both of them more valuable, and would drive iPod sales too. Maybe that is project Lucida?
Also, maybe Apple could add some kind of flash storage (new sony memory stick technology?) and the camera could take regular pictures with it, and that would work as 'standalone' (meaning, no iPod required).
The reason is, my DV cam was pretty damn expensive! If apple had some kind of cheaper alternative, that would be a great compliment to the free QTB and QTSS software.
Thoughts anyone?
What if they released a firewire DV cam, that had no onboard storage? You could hook it up to your mac, and stream stuff using QTB . Hopefully it would be cheap enough so that people wouldn't say "Thats all it does, and it costs HOW much??" Without onboard storage, it would require a mac (kind of like the ipod). Now what would be really neat, is if you could use your iPod for storage ... which makes both of them more valuable, and would drive iPod sales too. Maybe that is project Lucida?
Also, maybe Apple could add some kind of flash storage (new sony memory stick technology?) and the camera could take regular pictures with it, and that would work as 'standalone' (meaning, no iPod required).
The reason is, my DV cam was pretty damn expensive! If apple had some kind of cheaper alternative, that would be a great compliment to the free QTB and QTSS software.
Thoughts anyone?
Comments
A high quality CCD camera and an Apple iDevice...
Hmmm the possibilities.
[ 06-04-2002: Message edited by: myahmac ]</p>
Is that Firewire powered and programmable?
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[ 06-04-2002: Message edited by: MrBillData ]</p>
Why would you want to use an MP3 player to store video?
Where would your MP3s go?
Oh, buy another one!
but wait
why didnt they just put a drive in the camera in the first place?
pfft.
Its broadcast only, like a webcam. So you use QT broadcaster to broadcast from it, and it doesn't need storage since the mac converts the picture to MPEG 4 format, and streams that out. When I used my camera to stream, i didn't need to be recording to tape (or to my mac either, but i saw there was an option for that).
Then having external storage would let the thing work like a regular DV cam. Or Camera...
Well, it was just an idea, I didn't say it was a good idea! <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
Besides, since when has Apple decided to make something that's severely limited in capabilities unless they don't want it to compete with another of their own products? A new DV cam that's limited to taking movies from your computer would be limited for no good reason other than to save cost.
By the way, I had the dream several months before the 'Lucida' thread started...
P.S. I also had a different dream about MWNY with G5's running at 2.0 - 2.3 GHz
<strong>Well, according to a very interesting dream I had, Apple's next device will be a hybrid digital camera/digital video camera...
By the way, I had the dream several months before the 'Lucida' thread started...
P.S. I also had a different dream about MWNY with G5's running at 2.0 - 2.3 GHz
Well, according to a very interesting dream I had, two chicks at once is the way to go.
Who the hell has computer dreams?!?!?!?!?!
[ 06-05-2002: Message edited by: G4Dude ]</p>
Combined with Steve J's comment in the C-Net article today that mp4 "blows away mp3", my first thought was that the next gen iPod would not be the coolest mp3 player...it would be the first mp4 player (and who knows what other goodies they could pack into it) <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
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I know it's old news but Sun have also strategically invested in Kasenna (part of the ISMA). Kasenna developed video on demand s/w.
Ok. I know I'm clutching
<strong>Combined with Steve J's comment in the C-Net article today that mp4 "blows away mp3", my first thought was that the next gen iPod would not be the coolest mp3 player...it would be the first mp4 player</strong><hr></blockquote>
Hey, that's a great idea... In the article SJ says that at the same quality an MPEG4 video stream takes only 2/3 of the bandwidth... Does anyone know if that figure can be applied to an encoded MPEG4 audio file? Maybe Programmer or somebody else knowledgeable can answer this? I wouldn't mind increasing by 1/3 the number of songs my aging 5 GB iPod could hold...
ZoSo
[ 06-06-2002: Message edited by: ZoSo ]</p>
Aiff - 45.2 MB - cd quality (cd audio)
MP3 - 6.1 MB - 192 kbps (sounds good)
MP4 - 1.8 MB - 56 kbps (drastic loss of highs)
MP4 - 3.1 MB - 96 kbps (sounds as good as 192 mp3)
MP4 - 6.2 MB - 192 kbps (close to aiff quality)
OGG - 6.2 MB - 192 kbps (warble of a 96 kbps mp3)
So, it definitely means more songs on the 'Pod. Now the only incognita is "can the 'Pod decode MP4s too"?
Can't wait... <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
ZoSo