The Bob Box

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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
From <a href="http://www.looprumors.com"; target="_blank">Loop Rumors</a>



"Looks like Apple and Avid are teaming up to develop a new hardware/software video solution! Sources have confirmed that Apple is working closely with Avid to help develop a new product that is highly under wraps code named the "Bob Box." A late Spring release is set. We'll update you with details as they become available."



Is this high-end or low-end? Is Bob a reference to the unwashed masses? The whole thing seems pretty unlikely, the iMac is already Apple's hardware/software video solution.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 18
    I think its the TV-set box everyone has been talking about for years... I think MOSR invented it...



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  • Reply 2 of 18
    Sounds unlikely...the name of the product itself is very condescending and arrogant.
  • Reply 3 of 18
    screedscreed Posts: 1,077member
    Not to mention the strange bedfellows. I mean, hellooo, Avid and Apple? Final Cut Pro and Premiere?



    ...Mothra and Godzilla were married in a quiet civil service today... <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />



    Screed



    Doh! I meant Xpress.



    [ 01-30-2003: Message edited by: sCreeD ]</p>
  • Reply 4 of 18
    [quote]Originally posted by sCreeD:

    <strong>Not to mention the strange bedfellows. I mean, hellooo, Avid and Apple? Final Cut Pro and Premiere?

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Uh, Premiere is made by Adobe. But yes, Apple and Avid do make very strange bedfellows.
  • Reply 5 of 18
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    Not that strange. The two have been working closely together for a long time now.



    I'm at a loss to figure out what this is, apart from Apple and Avid sharing notes on the next-gen PowerMac so that Avid can start shipping it as part of one of their complete solutions right off the bat. The next-gen architecture should have radical implications for Avid's hardware approach (as in: Why bother with so many expensive PCI cards?).
  • Reply 6 of 18
    kidredkidred Posts: 2,402member
    [quote]Originally posted by Ensign Pulver:

    <strong>

    the iMac is already Apple's hardware/software video solution.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Huh? They made Attack of the Clones on an iMac?
  • Reply 7 of 18
    jante99jante99 Posts: 539member
    This actually makes sense. Avid announced last week they will release symphony for OS X. (Symphony is an extremly high end video editing software that handles 10 bit DVE)

    Final Cut Pro doesn't compete with this so it is alright for Apple and Avid to work together. Symphony cost 90,000 compared to 1000 for Final Cut Pro.



    And wouldn't this software be a perfect example to show the power of the G5?



    Read about it here:



    <a href="http://www.avid.com/company/releases/2003/030121_symphonyMac_prod.html"; target="_blank">http://www.avid.com/company/releases/2003/030121_symphonyMac_prod.html</a>;



    edited to add prices



    [ 01-30-2003: Message edited by: jante99 ]</p>
  • Reply 8 of 18
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    So, this is a digital box made by two people who are sleeping together, is what I am getting



    I am interested to see how this will turn out, it at all! <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[surprised]" /> <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" /> <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" /> <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
  • Reply 9 of 18
    [quote]Originally posted by KidRed:

    <strong>



    Huh? They made Attack of the Clones on an iMac?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I meant at the consumer level of course, hence my assumption that this thing must be for pros.



    If there is any truth to the spring release date, then I don't see how it could be 970 based, and if it's not 970 based what kind of pro product could it be?
  • Reply 10 of 18
    rhumgodrhumgod Posts: 1,289member
    [quote]Originally posted by Ensign Pulver:

    <strong>If there is any truth to the spring release date, then I don't see how it could be 970 based, and if it's not 970 based what kind of pro product could it be?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Why does everyone doubt that Apple can have a 970-Xstation ready by Spring? IBM is delivering the 970 to the masses in July-August, but Apple will obviously be the biggest buyer. They have had prototypes in house for nearly a year now. IBM has enlisted several other companies help with product manufacturing, so I clearly see a Feb announcement and a March release.



    End of story.
  • Reply 11 of 18
    whoamiwhoami Posts: 301member
    hmmmmm.

    i'm not too sure about this topic!
  • Reply 12 of 18
    [quote]Originally posted by whoami:

    <strong>hmmmmm.

    i'm not too sure about this topic!</strong><hr></blockquote>

    Why not?

    [quote]Originally posted by jante99:

    <strong>

    And wouldn't this software be a perfect example to show the power of the G5?</strong><hr></blockquote>

    Oh mama...! <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
  • Reply 13 of 18
    gargar Posts: 1,201member
    [quote]Originally posted by Rhumgod:

    <strong>



    ...IBM is delivering the 970 to the masses in July-August, but Apple will obviously be the biggest buyer...



    End of story.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    that's the reason i think why motorola doesn't have the current 7455/1.25ghz-1.42ghz on their website: they only sell these to apple and not to the "masses" (yet)
  • Reply 14 of 18
    [quote]Originally posted by Rhumgod:

    <strong>

    Why does everyone doubt that Apple can have a 970-Xstation ready by Spring... I clearly see a Feb announcement and a March release.

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    So Apple announces new speed bumped G4 Power Macs on Jan, 28th and then 970 based G5s less than a month later? I don't think so.
  • Reply 15 of 18
    Or could it be they intro'd the new powermacs now at lower price points so they can slot a new Uber-Mac in over the top at say, $4000? for a dual 970 available april/may with the top-end Nvidia/ATI OpenGL cards (they are working on drivers for those cards for 10.2.4) Makes sense if you look at it like that...... Then MWNY move the 970 down to the PowerMac range and maybe keep a G4 on the lowest end only
  • Reply 16 of 18
    In video land "Bob" stands for "Break Out Box" and quite simply will be some sort of video in/out device. In the context of Apple hardware it will probably convert video (composite or S-Video) to FireWire and vice versa. Not revolutionary, more evolutionary.



    Hope this helps.



    Simon
  • Reply 17 of 18
    dfilerdfiler Posts: 3,420member
    [quote]Originally posted by simon:

    <strong>In video land "Bob" stands for "Break Out Box" and quite simply will be some sort of video in/out device. In the context of Apple hardware it will probably convert video (composite or S-Video) to FireWire and vice versa. Not revolutionary, more evolutionary.



    Hope this helps.



    Simon </strong><hr></blockquote>Thank god someone interjected a little reason... another poster found the name condescending and arrogant.

    <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



    I really hope a wifi Bob Box materializes. This would be revolutionary. My digital hub would finally be able to connect to my other digital devices. G4 as a digital hub? My 7.1 receiver is more of a digital hub than my mac.



    Here's to hoping its a wifi home theater component. <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
  • Reply 18 of 18
    escherescher Posts: 1,811member
    What about <a href="http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/spongebob/main.jhtml"; target="_blank">Sponge Bob</a>? It could just be a square spongy box.



    Seriously, Simon makes a lot of sense in his "break out box" comment. The only catch is that "Bob Box" would then stand for "break out box-box".



    I certainly wouldn't mind a more performing and compatible (Apple-integrated and -supported) way of hooking the TV cable line, and a non-digital video camera or VCR, directly to a Mac. I'm not a big fan of all the dongle solutions, regardless of whether they are USB (terrible) of FireWire (better). OTOH, at least traditionally, Avid has made professional level equipment, not toys for the masses.



    Finally, what if it was "Boob Box?" A box for boobs, so to speak. Or a box for the boob tube. That would unboubtedly be for the masses.



    Escher



    [ 01-31-2003: Message edited by: Escher ]</p>
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