There's no reason that Apple shouldn't be looking at giving the iPod video capability someday sooner rather than later.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Almost 18 months after Creative first declared a marketing war against rival Apple, the company has launched a product to compete directly with the iPod video.
The primarily glossy red device casually holds your iPod video, and provides a Source, Format, and Connect button to go along with the volume keys, and houses Marvell's 88DE2710 digital video format converter to handle the upscaling.
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As for the video player we had to stick to MP4 format and nothing larger than the screen's resolution -- the standard iPod video settings worked like a charm (we had 900kbps and 30fps encoded by Xvid).
Granted, the vernacular might be a bit off, but apparently Meridian gets the gist of it, as it showcased the MV-D1 iPod video dock at CES as a means of getting a "real HD video experience" out of that yet-to-be- widescreened 5.5G rendition.
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While the rest of the papers are falling over themselves to cover the launch of Apple's new iPod video, the Sun brings us news of another radical innovation in the MP3 world - the possibility of a music player being implanted in a woman's breasts.
DVguru's newest member Zadi Diaz highlights the release of the new video publishing software VideoEgg, Ajit Anthony gives a run down of all the top iPod video conversion applications, and Mike Burgoyne takes a look at the official specs of the new Panasonic DVX100B.
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And just to fuel the iPod vs. everything-else fanboy fire a bit you might recall that they gave the 5G video iPod an 8.3 rating just a few months ago.
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Also discussing their portable DVD products including the industries first to include "video iPod" docking.
There are two primary reasons for Apple to create a video iPod.
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Besides which, we're gonna want something to sync our video iPod to.
But the video iPod couldn't easily play the shows on a TV set, and by early 2006 Apple designers were working on prototypes of a box that could: iTV.
For its part, Eos appears to be overhauling its sales effort. (The company denies this.) One quirky promotion promises a free Apple video iPod for purchasing a round-trip flight by August 31.
Apple believes that this network will drive sales of Macs, but also create a market for low-cost home devices which act as a sort of "video iPod" without actually handling display duties that's up to your HDTV or Apple Cinema Display.
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Not every gadget is right for every person, which is why we here at Engadget try not to take the one-size-fits-all approach to this stuff, and why we're going to skip most of the pseudo-philosophical arguments about whether there really is any demand for a "video iPod".
While that's not exactly been the case with Apple and a video-enabled iPod, the company's derision of portable video has certainly signaled that we shouldn't expect such a device before, say, the next major Earth-smashing asteroid threat.
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To watch movies or TV episodes from Amazon Instant Video on iPhone and iPod touch, customers can simply search for the content they've already rented or purchased from Amazon Instant Video-including the latest hit movies like The Dark Knight Rises, Brave and The Amazing Spiderman and the latest episodes from TV series like The Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy and The Vampire Diaries.
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Apple need not even stray far from its music mantra in order to justify adding video to the iPod.
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"Your Video Library" feature that gives iPhone and iPod touch customers access to purchases and rentals from Amazon Instant Video on the web.
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When Jobs unveiled a video version of the iPod late last year, the introduction that created the most stir was the TV-show downloading service for first-run episodes within 24 hours.
Unfortunately, unless you really, truly need to ability to download music when you're away from your computer, the drawbacks to this device when compared to a similarly-priced, video-playing 30GB iPod don't seem to outweigh the limited benefits you'll derive from its wireless capabilities.
The Apple maestro is expected to announce a second-generation iPod Nano, with enough storage for video.
Apple released beta software allowing Mac users to conduct video chats with iPhone and iPod touch users Monday.
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It is fitted into the latest version of Apple's ultra-slim iPod Nano to record sound for its video camera.
He carries pictures of his kids in his iPod and hopes to set up a video camera on the next computer he's issued from CNN so he can talk to home.
For example, the video is available on iPhones and iPod touches with iOS 5.0 and above, and on Android devices with OS 2.2 and above.
Meanwhile, Apple's pocket-sized touch-screen devices, the iPhone and iPod Touch, have taken off as music and video players and hand-held games consoles.
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