Posted by Barry McCockiner on 02/18/06 16:08

In article <wuHJf.753$5M6.270@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
Tonester <none@nospam.com> wrote:

> iPod uses a proprietary video format?

No, they don't. They use MPEG-4 with the H.264 CODEC.

> Well that's stupid on Apple's part. Why would they do that?

The content may or may not be wrapped with a DRM scheme -- I don't have
a video iPod, so I haven't downloaded any of this content. But as with
the music, it's the content providers that require the DRM, not Apple.

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