QuickTime Live! Conference Keynote Highlights

Nov 10, 1999

FOR THOSE who have still not tuned in to catch the keynote address delivered by Phil Schiller, Apple Computer's Vice-President of Worldwide Product Marketing, here's a quick (TV?) guide of his presentation. Timings as indicated in QuickTime Player's time-counter:

Time	Presentation
00:00:00	Intro & QuickTime History (From 1991 to present)
00:05:45	Forward to QuickTime 4: demo of James Bond trailer
00:07:30	Star Wars Episode I trailer — biggest download in Internet history
00:08:15	The reasons for Quicktime's success
00:11:00	Demo of Final Cut Pro digital video editing software
00:17:30	QuickTime's seamless compatibility & integration
00:20:00	Scalability of QuickTime content across 56K, DSL, and Cable-grade connections
00:24:45	And finally, Ethernet-grade connections — Toy Story 2
00:29:45	QuickTime TV — What's it all about
00:30:45	QuickTime Player — Your TV Receiver
00:31:30	QuickTime Streaming Server — Your Broadcast Station: Open Internet standards, no Server Tax, free with Mac OS X Server, part of Open Source Project (Darwin)
00:34:15	Integration between Quicktime, Sherlock 2, & Oracle's interMedia database technology
00:43:15	Partnership with Akamai Broadcast Network
00:47:30	Proxy Caching Servers — demo of Novell ICS proxy caching technology: full support for QuickTime live and archived content, time-shifting of live webcasts, ie Live-on-Demand streaming. (Anyone from Magix reading this?)
00:52:45	6 new content providers join the fast-growing network of QuickTime TV channels, including MTV and CNN
00:59:45	Unplanned demo of QuickTime 4 auto-update feature. It really works!
01:02:30	Demo of new features coming to QuickTime 4.1 & QuickTime Streaming Server 2 (due early 2000): Ad Insertion, SMIL (scriptable QuickTime Streaming automation), Online Authentication, & Playlists
01:10:15	"Take My Breath Away" streaming video demo at 2.6Mbps (anyone from SingaporeONE reading this?) And why did Phil Schiller show it? "Because we can."

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