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It’s about time Apple finally started taking the living room more seriously, even if the word “hobby” is still attached to it in a tongue-in-cheek way. And while cramming in some great functionality in a little box is great, there are still some things the new Apple TV appears to be missing.

Earlier today Apple unveiled the new look of the iPod product line, starting with the tiny Shuffle and ending with a slimmer and more powerful iPod Touch. New form factors, new hardware and new capabilities were evident across the product line, and a few of the iPredictions turned out to be pretty close to accurate

While the buzz earlier this week was all speculation about hardware changes and improvements, today Steve Jobs and Apple snuck in a potentially great enhancement to the iTunes ecosphere -- a little thing called Ping.

Apple likes to control the message and they did that with today's unveiling of the upgrade to iOS4 and new iPods in not only a press event in Cupertino, but one that was for the first time streamed to the internets, they took another new step by streaming their own announcement at Apple.com.

Once again we’re on the cusp of Apple’s annual Fall ‘event’ . Over the last few years it’s been focused on Apple’s vision of music, entertainment, and the hardware technology needed by us, the consumers, to realize that vision.

So in two days, September 1, we’ll know what that vision of the future looks like. But there’s been a lot of speculation online as to what’s coming down the pipe, especially with the iPod line, so I thought I’d take a look at a few of the more interesting things I’d seen