Whatever Apple announces on Wednesday, the company certainly has one of the best buzz machines on the market. The tide seems to be turning against the iPod video theory, and towards simple 80GB capacity bump and a new silver shell. For a video iPod to be sucessful, iTunes would need to be updated to support video and that would require a lot of negociation with movie studios and so on. Evidently, that hasn't happened yet and if it did it would be tough to keep secret. Still, as the guys at GearLive said "Isn't 80GB just a tad large for an iPod that is solely dedicated to music?"

And then there is the interpretation of the invite itself. remember how telling the photo of Steve's pocket was in the Nano announcement? Semioticians are already decoding the red curtains on the press invite for this Wednesday. According to eWeek:

The invitation to Wednesday's event has a background of red stage curtains, similar to those in Apple's iDVD DVD-authoring application (or, as some have pointed out, like the curtains in Twin Peak's Black Lodge.)

I am just glad I won't have to sit through an entire TV season to find out what they mean.