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Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by e0m on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:00PM (#8291230)
Anyone else seeing the TV Truck schedule instead of the keynote right now?
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by MCRed on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:08PM (#8291302)
Ok, got video, but am getting the Chinese Translator speaking over Tim Cook. I can barely hear him.
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by ahjushi on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:13PM (#8291332)
Getting audio of the Chinese Translator over Tim, but no video. "Watching" via Apple TV...
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by brotchie on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:11PM (#8291323)
Yeah, same here :( Could be something to do with CDN routing.
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by cylinder on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:06PM (#8291274)
10:07 and still black bars. Idiots.

Edit- Getting it now, but I'm hearing a translator talking under Cook. Get it together.

Edit2 - stream keeps cutting out. Disaster.

Edit3 - Access Denied. And we're done.

Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by ulfw on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:20PM (#8291388)
Yea maybe they shouldn't overly promote a stream (homepage redirect? WTF) if they can't scale it at all
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by LanceJones on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @02:48PM (#8291948)
Laughing out loud here because this was exactly my internal dialog as I tried to tune in. You nailed it -- Apple definitely did not.
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by Cookingboy on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:11PM (#8291322)
Pretty embarrassing for the largest tech company in the world...
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by colinbartlett on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:19PM (#8291386)
Someone will get fired over this.
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by raveli on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:07PM (#8291281)
Yes. And then there was 1 minute of the keynote shown with perhaps Chinese dubbing. Tim Cook has never sounded that feminine before.
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by bobbyi_settv on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:06PM (#8291271)
I was. I refreshed and it got me the keynote, but with the audio for multiple languages at once (maybe the same root cause as the multiple songs on the TV truck screen), so I refreshed again. Now I'm back to the TV Truck schedule.
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by capkutay on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:08PM (#8291305)
This must be part of apple's asia strategy ;)
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by drinchev on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:07PM (#8291279)
same here.
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by ewang1 on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:06PM (#8291272)
My guess is they underestimated the number of viewers and didn't have enough bandwidth prepared.
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by VikingCoder on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:39PM (#8291516)
Yeah, this is only the like second or third of these they've ever done, right? /sarcasm
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by tehwebguy on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:01PM (#8291236)
Yeah, someone is about to be in trouble

Edit: Now getting "Access Denied" on http://www.apple.com/live

Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by itry on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:08PM (#8291298)
yes. wow, they fucked it up!
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by carbocation on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:02PM (#8291240)
The Twitter feed at the bottom says "It's showtime" but I'm just seeing the color bars and truck schedule, too.
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by hlmencken on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:03PM (#8291250)
press pause and then live
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by jlogsdon on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:05PM (#8291266)
Now I hear live translation along side the speaker. Awesome.
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by aianus on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:04PM (#8291262)
You don't have permission to access "http://www.apple.com/live/2014-sept-event/" on this server.
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by joesmo on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:18PM (#8291367)
That, then video in multiple languages, then nothing, now:

Access Denied

You don't have permission to access "http://www.apple.com/live/2014-sept-event/" on this server. Reference #18.1e111cb8.1410283041.b76d50

Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by rdl on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:03PM (#8291249)
Switched to a crappy pre-recorded ad briefly, now back to the bars :(
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by aianus on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:02PM (#8291238)
I am. Music is still playing in the background.
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by jvreeland on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:01PM (#8291237)
Yes, No idea why.
Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by hoistor on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:02PM (#8291243)
Yes. :/