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With signature (buzz making) flare the CEO of Apple Computers finally makes it BIG Announcement. C|Net has the details.

1. Video iPods, with new searching capabilities, and plays games
2. Some new brighter, longer lasting nanos. And they come in colors
3. A new smaller, clip on 1GB shuffle (it is REALLY small)
4. iTunes 7 will have cover art for music, & carry movies, for download, the same day they come out on DVD 14.99 & 9.99 price points. Download will take 30 minutes at 5Mb/s, quality will be close to DVD. This is not as big of news as you think because only Disney & Pixar movies will be available, initially.
5. Last but not least is a new product codenamed iTV, Cringely calls it videoXpress (Cringley’s name is better)
   

   iTV will sell for $299 and works with PCs and Macs. “We think it completes the picture here,” Jobs said.

   10:55 a.m.–The new iTV device, which Jobs demonstrated onstage, has 802.11 wireless built in, wired networking, USB, an HDMI connector, and also component video, analog audio and optical audio. It will be controlled with an Apple remote and hooks directly to a TV or to set-top box or home theater system.

   The point of iTV is to allow movies and TV shows downloaded to a computer to play on a TV in another room. The device is coming in the first quarter of 2007, Jobs said.

I think the last item is the really big news. It comes out in Q1 of 2007. My question is will it play standard formats or just what ever DRMed up forma Apple comes up with. It would be cool to download video via juice or democracy, and then be able to see it on a standard TV.Ooooorr what if I set up a DVR into a Mac, will it play those videos as well?