No video iPod.

This is painfully and blatantly obvious to most people. I don't know why some people feel like this would be a success ; given the tepid sales of portable DVD Players. What makes people think that shrinking the video and player down to iPod size means sales? Perhaps a lack of creativity?

Who says we want to watch video on a 3.5 inch screen? The iPod Photo shows how easy it is to hook up to a TV and play slideshows; why not videos?

Here is a good alternative if you need video playback.

http://www.g-technology.com/News/pdf...introduced.pdf

I have said it before, but if the ipod got video it would be for showing imovies on screen or on tv, not for showing feature length movies. That functionality would be kinda cool, but I am not even sure there would be much market for that. Small screens suck for video. To many legal issues to resolve. Bandwidth to small for most users to download right now. Plus 8 million other problems I'm not realizing. If you need (want) mobile video there are better products on the market that don't fall anywhere near the ipod form factor. I am not talking about any of the new handheld video jukeboxes because they suck and are not selling very well. Portable dvd players or Laptops are just so much better. I really don't understand why anyone would want a handheld video player. What are they going to do watch video while they jog? I would like to remind everyone that video and music are two different mediums. You can look around and see whats happening around you while you listen to music, but when watching video your eyes are fixed on the screen. This really limits the usefulness of a hand-held video player.
Now with all this said I can see limited video being used in a future ipod. This feature would be for sharing imovie the way ipod photo is for sharing photos. I might use something like that, but I would likely be one of the few however.

I have a burning question as well...

How do you pronounce "Ng"?

iPhoto now supports movies ...

I'd use a video ipod primarily for displaying small videos that many digital cameras now take... I'd take it over to my parents and hook it up to the tv for a slideshow with photo and video... Heck I do that now with the camera but it can't hold nearly as much (512MB card).

Many of the arguments against a video ipod we have heard before and were applied to a photo ipod: screen's too small... photo jukeboxes are junk and not selling well... use a laptop instead.

Despite all those arguments, Apple did come out with a photo iPod. Yeah it has limited usefulness, but the question remains why not do video too? Yeah limited content and limited usefulness... but it would add some benefit and be somewhat useful.