Posted by Gary L T on 10/20/05 18:04

"Nathan Mercer" <nmercer@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> AnthonyR wrote:
>> "Dave Martindale" <davem@cs.ubc.ca> wrote in message
>> news:dirpu5$j5t$2@mughi.cs.ubc.ca...
>>
>>>Richard <rich@ihug.co.nz> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Makes the video ipod look like just another halfassed apple product if
>>>>it only
>>>>takes quicktime... why not the avis that everything else is happy
>>>>with... only
>>>>apple..

Here's another question, it seems that you can only watch video
on the ipods that have just been released (i.e. in October 2005).
I would have thought that it should be possible to view video on
a 30 or 60GB photo ipod that was first released about a year ago.

Can anyone tell me whether it will ever be possible to have new
Apple software that will allow people to view video on a photo
ipod that is a year old? After all, these ipods can produce slide
shows of still pictures with sound, so wouldn't it just require
software to adapt these 1-year old ipods to display video with
sound?

Or does the new video ipod have some different hardware
characteristics to the older photo ipods? After all, a 60GB
ipod operates just like a the hard drive of any computer, so
why can't it display video with an appropriate software
update?

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