CNET NEWS ARTICLE: Video iPods on the Horizon!

[Giaguara]

Originally Posted by Captain Code

There are small LCD glasses that would be the equivalent of headphones. They would even work to make 3D movies. But, they are expensive right now.

yes, the last time i heard of those glasses they were around 1,500 $.



a portable moviepod? how many would buy such? i probalby would not like the glasses .. (or if i had those, woulndt like loanign them to anyone) .. and i for sure would not like a 2" screen. not even a 4" screen.

any portable movie device - i.e. in practise portable dvd player, is in practise the size of 12" 'book, and costs as much. so why not get a laptop for the same purpose? oh, must be just me who's not getting the point of the 2" tv or movie screen thing.

that article is funny though. how it states somethign that someone has said "could be" as a truth. well.. we'll see.

[Fahrvergnuugen]

Originally Posted by Arden

Couple things:

- Yes, as Randman said, PDA's and cellphones have that kind of compatibility right now, though they don't have nearly the capacity to store a full DVD movie. However, giving the iPod (or vPod, or whatever) a full-device touch screen would be basically turning it into yet another PDA, which Apple has expressly stated is not going to happen.

i completely disagree. giving the iPod a large touch screen DOES NOT turn it into a PDA. giving it a stylus and the ability to recognize hand writing; or any other "input" features would turn it into a PDA. The ability to simply play / display content is still true to the original goal of the iPod. if its going to display video, it needs a drastically upgraded screen.

- It's the Ken Burns effect.

you missed the pun entirely.

[Randman]

Why have it just display video when you can do that and much more on a pda or smartphone?

[King Shrek]

Originally Posted by Randman

Why have it just display video when you can do that and much more on a pda or smartphone?

Why would you want it to be a PDA?

[Arden]

Imagine: instead of carrying around a Palm pilot for your contacts, notes, etc. and an iPod for tunes, you have a PDA with a 40 GB hard drive for storing all sorts of stuff. Granted, there are numerous issues they'd have to work out, but you start eliminating the clutter from your belt. And if it doubles (or would it triple at this point?) as a cell phone...

However, Apple has said repeatedly that this will not happen, and the iPod will remain a music player.

Fahrv: The iPod already has, what, a date book I think? If they gave it a full-device color screen, it would be a lot easier to use. And they could add an address book and a note pad as well, to make it more organized. But wait, with all that input you'd be doing, you'd need a better way to put in text, so it'd have to have handwriting recognition. Oh wait—now it's a PDA with a hard drive! Whatever shall we do?

[King Shrek]

Originally Posted by Arden

Whatever shall we do?

Don't add the address book and the notepad.

[Fahrvergnuugen]

it already has a date book and contacts all of which are synced from your iCal and Address book on the machine. There is no way to add anything without a computer.

and it should stay that way. the iPod should remain simple and "view only"

A touch screen is just another evolution of the direction apple has already taken with the iPod. It started out with buttons and a moving scroll wheel. they changed it to have a touch scroll wheel and sensors for the buttons - less moving parts.
with the iPod mini, they put the buttons behind the scroll wheel. So why not put all of the controls "under" the screen and make the screen bigger?

[Arden]

Because—oh no, here it comes! It's devouring my iPod! Mommy, there's a PDA loose in the house!