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Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by aroch »

dwild wrote: post #90
aroch wrote: post #32

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Or lazy about their redirecting. 301's are supported by pretty much every browser, indexer and wget/curl whereas 302's sometimes fail on those. Its also pretty easy to reissue another 301 from /live to com/

Considering I get this: "Sorry, your browser doesn’t support our live video stream." I'm pretty sure compatibility isn't the reason of that choice.

I'm fairly certain they just want you to land on the live page, even if you can't view it in the current browser. It's about eyes on page to spur you to either stay tuned or move to a browser that works with it.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by WildUtah »

MCRed wrote: post #98
WildUtah wrote: post #39

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The new iMac 27" should have a nice 5120x2880 screen. That would sure justify the hype. But I bet we'll just get a 4.7" iPhone, Apple catching up to where Samsung has been for three long years now with a medium sized phone instead of a tiny chiclet. (I love the chiclet, but bigger would be better.) And we'll probably get another lousy "smart" watch that needs charging every day and doesn't do anything you can't do by…

Do you think Apple's been desperately saying to itself for the past 3 years "gee, I wish we had the technology to make a larger phone!"

Everybody knows the future of technology is bigger everything. Just look at the giant iPadds on Star Trek.

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Post by jjoonathan »

lostgame wrote: post #78
MCRed wrote: post #49

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Ever since Apple originated consumer computer video with Quicktime back in the early 1990s, they've done a great deal to make it better, first for CD Roms and in a proprietary fashion. But when the net came around they opened up their proprietary format to become a standard-- the Mpeg4 file format is the old MOV format. They've also proposed a lot of improvements along these lines for other people to adopt. Like Bonj…

What, what? YouTube has been doing an HTML5 based web player for quite some time now[1], and I believe it supports FLV video as well, though I can't find a reference for that. [1] https://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=CA

I don't think you can use the HTML5 player for videos with ads. It's an elephant of a caveat.
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