The Bob Box
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.
"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.
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Screed
Doh! I meant Xpress.
[ 01-30-2003: Message edited by: sCreeD ]</p>
<strong>Not to mention the strange bedfellows. I mean, hellooo, Avid and Apple? Final Cut Pro and Premiere?
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Uh, Premiere is made by Adobe. But yes, Apple and Avid do make very strange bedfellows.
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?).
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the iMac is already Apple's hardware/software video solution.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Huh? They made Attack of the Clones on an iMac?
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>
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]" />
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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?
<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.
i'm not too sure about this topic!
<strong>hmmmmm.
i'm not too sure about this topic!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Why not?
[quote]Originally posted by jante99:
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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]" />
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...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)
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Why does everyone doubt that Apple can have a 970-Xstation ready by Spring... I clearly see a Feb announcement and a March release.
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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.
Hope this helps.
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.
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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]" />
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>