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The reason it doesn't is who would really want to watch video on that small of a screen? the only way that a Nano would get video is if they made the Nanos full screen which isn't too unlikely for one of the next revisions IMO.
 
I believe if you were to put iPod Linux onto the Nano that would give you video capabilities, but i'm not entirely sure.
 
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