After I wrote the blog post about downloading the podcast about the Canon EOS Rebel T1i, I posted an entry on the dpreview.com forum asking if anyone had seen it. No one had seen it, so I posted a link to the blog post and I saw a definite spike in traffic. Later on that night I see a blog entry from Engadget with the same screenshot that I took from the video. They had a link to my original forum post from dpreview.com. I check back about a hour later and all over the internet, Canon announces the camera. After they did, all the sites started posting their initial reviews of the camera. There was probably an embargo on mentioning the camera until their scheduled event. I’m not sure my mentioning of the CNET podcast was the reason why Canon announced it earlier, but I like to think so. All I have to say is… sorry CNET. 🙂
Here’s the video that I downloaded yesterday at around 4pm yesterday:
I didn’t upload the video to my site yesterday because I don’t have the bandwidth to host it. I didn’t post it up on youtube because they took it down on the CNET site, so I thought for sure they would take it down on youtube.