Posted by BreadWithSpam on 10/20/05 18:54

"Gary L T" <garylt@it.net> writes:

> 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.

The new ones have a custom video chip that the olds ones don't
have. Not gonna happen.

> 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?

Because much of what you think is done in software is done
by specialized chips.

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