Video iPod: Coming Soon?

**Eric** · 08-03-2005, 12:16 AM

According to a recent MacRumors article, Apple expanded the original iPod trademark to read:

full line of electronic and mechanical accessories and computer software for portable and handheld digital electronic devices for recording, organizing, transmitting, manipulating, and reviewing text, data, audio, image, and video files;
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all for use with portable and handheld digital electronic devices for recording, organizing, transmitting, manipulating, and reviewing text, data, audio, image, and video files in Class 9.

From the original 2001 patent:

Portable and handheld digital electronic devices for recording, organizing, transmitting, manipulating, and reviewing text, data, and audio files

[Edited on 8-2-2005 by Eric]

**Sponsor** · 08-03-2005 12:16 AM

**dominiquejames** · 08-03-2005, 01:51 AM

Here's something I read about iVideo from the iLounge site.

**randytamayo** · 08-03-2005, 02:02 AM

I can see the guys who just got their brand spanking new color iPods scratching their heads right now.

But I am sure polar_bear will simply say, "what? where? can eat or not?" hehehe... joke!

This technology on the iPod is bound to happen - sooner or later. I am sure it is sooner.

Randy

**polar_bear** · 08-03-2005, 06:43 AM

what? where? can eat or not???

hehehehe

**hubes** · 08-08-2005, 10:01 PM

Do you suppose it will look like this?

**alfa** · 08-08-2005, 10:08 PM

if apple comes out with a video iPod with a built in card reader and its coupled with the simplicity of the iPod then it might be bye bye for my Archos....

**keyboardstyli** · 08-09-2005, 07:01 AM

Originally posted by hubes
Do you suppose it will look like this?

Well... I think it would either be an all touch-screen interface in-front, w/buttons on the sides, and w/an iPod shuffle-like buttons (instead of the click-wheel) on the sides also (initially); or maybe just an iPod shuffle-like button interface in-front replacing the click-wheel instead to save space!

But IMHO, if this would indeed happen, this precludes/positions the iPod on becoming a full-pledged convergent device (like what the PDA is before, and is now evolving to the smartphone category, like the Treo!), and I hope that it happens sooner also, rather than later! :cheers:

**Gomi** · 08-09-2005, 02:15 PM

the current iPods are already video capable, its just a matter of providing the content and simple software implementation.

**webmikey** · 08-09-2005, 04:18 PM

I think Video-capable in this case means "able to play moving video". I doubt existing iPod encarnations have enough processing power to actually decode videos.

If it can the next questions would be, at what frame-rate and what codecs will does it support? I don't think current iPod Colors have this "easter-egg" functionality. But then again, Apple has been known to pull proverbial rabbits out of hats.