If you have access to a big C-Band dish, you might be able to find a wild feed of the keynote as I have the past few years, usually on Galaxy 3R (some sports bars have these, you might possibly be able to con a bartender into searching the sky for you).

I have bookmarked.

If apple has changed the co-ords you're "mathematically" SOL

good luck anyway

Apple is reportedly not even feeding the Keynote to any satellite channel. It's going to be strictly recorded for transmission via Quicktime later in the day. Even when Apple didn't do live Quicktime streams they did provide sat. coordinates and some stores showed the event live. Ain't gonna happen this time.

I've also bookmarked the keynote page-I hope there will be some very exciting annoucments from Steve Jobs, such as a iPod model that uses flash memory.

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Any ideas why there's no live feed this year, other than the usual "not cost-effective from a marketing standpoint"? This has to be THE most anticipated keynote since SJ returned to Apple. Between flashPods, $500 headless Macs, iWork, and breakout boxes, I don't think there's ever been this much fevered pre-keynote speculation, let alone coverage in the mainstream media.

bad scare day . . .

Beyond the not cost-effective argument, other possible reasons include:
1. To increase in-person attendance at the Keynote/Expo where Steve's Reality Distortion Field can take effect. (This assumes the RDF doesn't work as well when watched via satellite or webcast.)
2. To drive people to read Apple's own press releases, and filtered news accounts that will include positive spin interviews with Apple management.
3. To stretch out the excitement into tomorrow by having people watch the keynote tonight and talk about it tomorrow.

I wonder if Apple Retail Stores will actually have any of the products announced today in stock and for sale immediately after the Keynote.

138 more minutes until the MacObserver feed...

The U2 iPod event was delayed as well, and when it was finally posted on Apple's site, the performance by U2 was edited out. My guess is that Apple didn't have the rights to rebroadcast the performance.

Maybe there's going to be a live performance in conjuction with new iPod announcements and there is a rights-problem again?

This is a just a stab in the dark guess though…

When I watched the U2 iPod event on delayed webcast, I saw U2 perform at least 2 or 3 songs. Did they sing more songs that were edited out?

Not pictures, but some details Apple accidentally gave away due to a banner accidentally being exposed on Monday! - will the people responsible now be sued?

See: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?home&NewsID=10570

Can't say that I find the design to inspiring - no display?

The feed would be nice if TMO had provided enough capacity for the expected demand. 15 minutes before 9 AM PST, it was full and remained that way.

I've never had much luck in the past in getting the live streams. Either I can't connect at all, or the quality is so horrendous that there is no point in trying. Really it's pretty embarrassing for QuickTime. I realize some people manage to get the streams OK, but I never could - no, this is not over dialup. I'm on a T1 or something of that sort. Maybe QT 7 will bring viable live keynote streaming? Or maybe not. Viewing the recorded keynote afterward has always worked fine - their QT server just doesn't seem to be able to handle the load of a live keynote feed.

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Any ideas why there's no live feed this year, other than the usual "not cost-effective from a marketing standpoint"? This has to be THE most anticipated keynote since SJ returned to Apple.....

The best reason I have heard is that was the reason.
The demand would have excceed Apples ability to do a good job streaming.
Rather than tarnish an otherwise great show - they are time shifting viewing to a better time - which offers more internet bandwidth (cause office workers have gone home) and pushes many (most?) viewers out of highspeed office to home and or delays till next work day.

TomW

The update somehow hanged around 1030 hrs. I switch to MacCentral.