Which ipod to get?

[Thank The Cheese]

nice post CJ, but I have to ask: if it can play video then why on earth didn't apple include that functionality?

 

[fryke]

1.) There's not much room for video on an iPod nano.
2.) They want to sell many iPod 5G's.
3.) The screen on the nano isn't exactly, well, big.

 

[nixgeek]

The nano Takes video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6974467646937874348
http://www.theplaceforitall.com/linuxnano/

Consider that it's running the iPod Linux distro, not using the system provided by Apple. The iPod Linux guys hacked it to do this, probably using a port of Xine or Mplayer. Remember that with Linux anything can be done, but it requires some work from the devs and sometimes even the users.