Apple Expands iPod Trademark to Include Video

[GilGrissom]

I don't know if the iPod photo has the power to play video.

This is a very good point. One that I think has been overlooked. I certainly did. The battery life of the iPod photo while viewing photos is poor. 5 hours with music playback on paper, I don't think I ever get that, as you will be using it on and off mixed in with standard music playback. Also as soon as you go into photos the battery indicator drops massively, even if it's fully charged, but then when you come back out again and wait it will return! Always worries my girlfriend when she comes to show photos to friends on my iPod when the battery suddenly drops into the red!

I think this is a huge factor limiting current iPod photos to do video, but it may not mean Apple won't do it. Does make you think an iPod video will most likely only be a new device, with improved video chipset wtih better heat and energy consumption while adding a higher capacity battery. Sure hope not though, would be nice to see Apple pull off the current iPod photo into iPod video. (I wonder if thats another reason they ditched the iPod "photo" term, to make room for "video" on the end?!)

 

[CB Spike]

all the video talk

with all the video talk it makes me think, with the picture capabilityit already has i'd rather first see a cmera for it be it a new gen or a adaption it would be a more sensible next step ...just for the fact of the media going right to the ipod vs downloading somethig such as a movie

 

[GilGrissom]

with all the video talk it makes me think, with the picture capabilityit already has i'd rather first see a cmera for it be it a new gen or a adaption it would be a more sensible next step ...just for the fact of the media going right to the ipod vs downloading somethig such as a movie

Ye I see your point, its a good one and have thought about it myself. However putting a camera into an iPod raises new concerns and other factors. It will inevitably become part of the age old arguement of the phone camera against conventional digital camera. Would they put a proper lens into an iPod? My guess is not, it would require too much of a rejig inside and would not be worth it. A smaller camera phone style lens? More technologically possible but I don't think they would put something like this in. If they were going to do it they would put the best proper one in, I imagine. I don't think they would want an iPod with a camera phone lens, just doesn't seem quite worth it, only out of novelty and the sake of doing it.

I do not believe there is such a market for it either, with the iPod camera connector I believe Apple are leaving the photography to the professionals and giving them the perfect solution to what the iPod is good at for photographers, easy hard drive transfer with integration with iPhoto when you get back to your Mac.

Your point about getting the media straight to the iPod is a powerful one, and who knows, could be the thinking behind doing something like this in the end, or the thinking about how to get around the problem of movies etc. Getting the media straight to the iPod without the iPod going to the media, hmmm, certainly sounds Apple! Nice thinking!

 

[shompa]

Good point. For the battery issue, when playing back through a TV one can assume a power outlet is available. That leaves the problem of fitting such a decoder including a way of cooling it in an iPod.

Edit: And price

Does your TV handle 1920x1200?
Not even the most expensive plasma displays does that. HD is great, but people don't understand that the "HDTV" ready TVs today don't handle the real resolution of HDTV.

And for a mac playing HDTV content:
There is something wrong with Apples codec.
I DL HDTV movies in 1080i that uses MPEG2 .TS format. That is 1900x1200 perfekct picture. A single G5 can handle that. Probably a faster G4.
(my powerbook 1.25ghz cant handle .TS, but a 1.67 should handle it)

 

[Chundles]

Does your TV handle 1920x1200?
Not even the most expensive plasma displays does that. HD is great, but people don't understand that the "HDTV" ready TVs today don't handle the real resolution of HDTV.

And for a mac playing HDTV content:
There is something wrong with Apples codec.
I DL HDTV movies in 1080i that uses MPEG2 .TS format. That is 1900x1200 perfekct picture. A single G5 can handle that. Probably a faster G4.
(my powerbook 1.25ghz cant handle .TS, but a 1.67 should handle it)

1900x1200 is waaaaayyy more than HD. Well, vertically anyway. 1080 is 1920x1080, The only thing a TV needs to be called HD ready is a vertical resolution of 720 pixels (1280 horizontally)

 

[shompa]

1900x1200 is waaaaayyy more than HD. Well, vertically anyway. 1080 is 1920x1080, The only thing a TV needs to be called HD ready is a vertical resolution of 720 pixels (1280 horizontally)

1900x1200 vs 1920x1080

is not that big differense
I was thinking about Apples cinema displays that are 16:10 instead of TVs that are 16:09

1080i is "real" HDTV 1920x1080 over 2 megapixel
720p is only 1280x720. 0.9 megapixel.

Why would you whant a TV that only can show half the resolution?

 

[GilGrissom]

The whole HD thing really confuses me!!!, either way I'm not bothered about it being in an iPod! Maybe storing HD content (can do that anyway as a hard drive!!!) but it really doesn't bother me, and I don't think it will get on the iPod. If the market isn't there for movies then it definately isn't there for HD movies. I think it's enough to get around the plain movie content issue never mind getting around HD content!

 

[canadosurfer]

Good News

I guess those video ipods are really on the way! Eventhough Steve denies it. I would still like to see intergrated line-in, mic, am, fm.