Oh yeah, I forgot to mention Apple’s new Video iPod yesterday. But hey, you all knew it was coming, and I’m sure you read about it elsewhere. No? OK then, here’s your link:
Video iPod
The funny thing is, it’s not a “Video iPod”. It’s just the new iPod. So if you go out and buy an iPod, it’ll play video from your brand new iTunes 6. So you’ll have a new toy that’ll do everything your iPod did (music and photos) but now it’ll do video too. Thanks to Quicktime and the MPEG4 codec, you can get 150 hours of video on the big one. It’s a small screen, but I download videos onto my phone and that’s got an even smaller screen. I guess you’ll just have to try it – it’s not like you’re losing out.
I haven’t had a chance to check out the forums yet, but I’m guessing most people are going to feel pretty hard done by. They were expecting a lot more. But I for one don’t want to carry around a great big personal video device so the new iPod is probably a winner for me. I’ll not be buying one for a while though.
