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shooraijin wrote:I'm not impressed with the video iPod. This has been done before, possibly not as well, but it doesn't seem an evolutionary leap.

I *am* impressed that Apple managed to get a nice content deal with ABC, and that might translate into Disney dibs also.

What I am not bowled over by is the fact it does not offer any significant improvement, evolutionary or otherwise, over other video players. Where I think it could have shined would have been a la the iPod Photo, allowing you to plug it into a TV and play your movie there. Particularly for high bit rate, you could have a portable MPEG-2 video jukebox or something that fits in your pocket, and even at low bit rates, it beats squinting over the screen (which I must admit *is* significantly better than the competition).

On the whole, I don't see this setting the world on fire. I do see the movie studios hyperventilating, though.

truthgone12 wrote:One word: PSP

Mr. SmartyPants wrote:that's not... really a word O.o

*housed*