苹果公司老总是如何兜售新iPod的？

The new white iPod, and yes, it does video. Now...

And now video. We have a beautiful 2.5-inch TFT display, 320 by 240 pixels, so it's very high density¹. 260,000 colors, the color is fantastic on it. And most importantly, we support realtime decoding² of H.264 video. This is the video standard used in Quicktime 7 and it's adopted as an international standard. It is the best video compression technology on the planet. And the iPod decodes³ wonderfully, as well as MPEG 4. And we have TV out. So if you wanna buy an optional cable, you can have the output right after your TV. And the video quality is just amazing, for watching iMovies, for watching video podcasts, for watching music videos, for watching anything that you've got, you wanna see on your iPod. And what's it gonna sell for? 299, 299. The 60 giga model, 15,000 songs, 25,000 photos, up to 150 hours of video. And it's gonna sell for just 399.

And the fourth feature is video. You know, if we can play video on our computers, if we can now play video on the new iPod, we have to have a way to buy videos. iTune 6 offers us a way to buy music videos. Music videos from all your favorite artists, we have over 2000 music videos for sale, starting today in iTune 6. We have a whole music video page. All your favorite artists, U2, Madonna, Kanye West, just about everybody. And you can search on these things,too. So if you do a search for Madonna, take a look at just her videos. She's got a very large video catalog. You can preview them all. You can get a preview to make sure you wanna buy it, and then hit one button and download them. They are pretty cool. Now what do they cost? For the song and the video, a dollar 99.

Well ,there is one more thing that we are announcing today, that you can buy off the iTunes' music store. And that is TV shows. Now, if we are gonna get TV shows, we ought to get the biggest hits, right?What's the number one hit show on television? Desperate housewives. What's the number two hit television show? Lost. And what network are they on? They are both on ABC. And who owns ABC? Disney. I know these guys.

The guys that have the number one TV shows I've had the great fortune be working with for quite some time. And they own ABC and the Disney Channel. And we have done a landmark⁴ deal which we are announcing here today. We are going to be offering 5 shows on iTunes, which you can purchase online and download, and play on your computer and play on your iPod. And those shows are, Lost, Desperate Housewives, the number one and two shows on television. A new ABC show called Night Stalker. And the two most popular shows on the Disney Channel, That's So Raven⁵ and Suite⁶ Life of Zac and Cody. And all five of these shows you will now be able to buy on iTunes. And so you can go as an example to Lost in season one and buy any of the season one episodes. But what about current episodes? Yes, you can buy current episodes. And you can buy them the day after they are broadcast.

So you can buy the episode of Desperate Housewives that was broadcast this past Sunday. There will be an episode of Lost broadcast tonight, you can buy it tomorrow. It's amazing. And these shows are downloaded ad-free. So you don't need to fast forward through the commercials. We are downloading them 320 by 240 again the same native resolution as the new iPod. And an hour show, like Desperate Housewives and Lost is about the size of five albums and so that's about the download time. If you have broadband which you need for this. Depending on what speed broadband/ you have, it's about ten to twenty minutes to download an episode. It's really amazing. So TV shows. What are they gonna cost? They are gonna cost a dollar 99 an episode.

1 density   

n.密集，密度，浓度

参考例句：

• The population density of that country is 685 per square mile.那个国家的人口密度为每平方英里685人。
• The region has a very high population density.该地区的人口密度很高。

2 decoding   

n.译码，解码v.译（码），解（码）( decode的现在分词 )；分析及译解电子信号

参考例句：

• We cannot add any other memory to this system without further decoding. 如果不增加译码，就不能使系统的存贮容量有任何扩展。 来自辞典例句
• Examples using the 8250 will be presented in hardware section to clarify full-decoding schemes. 在硬件一节中有应用说明全译码方案8250的例子。 来自辞典例句

3 decodes   

v.译（码），解（码）( decode的第三人称单数 )；分析及译解电子信号

参考例句：

• Figure 5.1 shows a network that decodes a given bIt'sequence. 图5．1是一个对给定二进制序列进行解码的网络。 来自辞典例句
• The receive decodes the message and attempts to interpret the sender's meaning. 接收者解码收到的信息，并解释发送者的意思。 来自互联网

4 landmark   

n.陆标，划时代的事，地界标

参考例句：

• The Russian Revolution represents a landmark in world history.俄国革命是世界历史上的一个里程碑。
• The tower was once a landmark for ships.这座塔曾是船只的陆标。

5 raven   

n.渡鸟，乌鸦；adj.乌亮的

参考例句：

• We know the raven will never leave the man's room.我们知道了乌鸦再也不会离开那个男人的房间。
• Her charming face was framed with raven hair.她迷人的脸上垂落着乌亮的黑发。

6 suite   

n.一套(家具)；套房；随从人员

参考例句：

• She has a suite of rooms in the hotel.她在那家旅馆有一套房间。
• That is a nice suite of furniture.那套家具很不错。