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Should the next ipod play movies as well as music?
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I just bought a new imac over a week ago and im really impressed with everything about it. After playing with imovie and idvd I really think that apple should make the next ipod with a larger color screen and have a 10 gig hard drive so a person can play movies and music on their ipod.
itunes and imovie are great apps and if ipod could take advantage of both of them it would make it an even better package.
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I don't think so. While it would be nice, much more advanced hardware would be needed.
Considering M$'s PDA's can play movies, it's not out of the question; however, I don't think the iPod would be viable if it had these features. With movie-playing capabilities, you're looking at a price tag of upwards of $600-700.
Personally, I would only find it useful as I find MP3 playing on a camera useful unless I could watch full-length DivX movies on it. The screen would need to be at least quadruple the size of the current screen, though.
What's next? IDivX is next. It would be Apple's next addition to the digital hub; it would be an application that lets you rip your DVD's to DivX and put them on your iPod.
Obviously, the new iPod would ship in a bag saying something to the effect of "Please don't pirate movies!" considering the current one deters people from "stealing" music. 
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This isn't an iMac topic, though. While you will get more traffic in here, I think the moderators will do something about this thread being in here very shortly. Nice try. 
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The MPAA would make you think that it's illegal to copy your own DVD's, but it's not. I purchased the movie, so I can copy it if I want.
DivX  I think it's a "ok" codec at best... MPEG4 with QuickTime should blow it out of the water. I just hope MPEG4 makes it to Windows fast enough...
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Congratulations on buying an iMac.
This topic is about an iPod. It doesn't belong in iMac.
see it here:
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Originally posted by seanyepez:
<STRONG>This isn't an iMac topic, though. While you will get more traffic in here, I think the moderators will do something about this thread being in here very shortly. Nice try. </STRONG>
ahhhhh what?
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Perhaps the screen could remain a monochrome, back lit LCD for general iPod navigation tasks, but then there would be a special video output port to connect to a pair of video eyeglasses for watching movie files... wearable computer style.
It would take a company like Apple to make something dorky like that accepted among the general populace as cool. Seems improbable to me, but I was just trying to think of another way to enable watching video on an iPod. Of course, the eye glasses would probably be three times as expensive as the iPod...
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