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February 23, 2006
This photo of what may or may not be the upcoming full-screen Video iPod is making the internet rounds.
The photo resembles the leaked 5G iPod photos, but may have simply been inspired by the same photos. reports Mac Rumors. The edges of the ipod look a doctored.
There is significant debate about the part number shown. The part number "M8719Z/A" is the same part number as Mac OS X 10.2 Server, but several people feel it is a "B" not an "8" writes MacRumors
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February 21, 2006
How did Apple get an LCD and 60 gigabytes of music into such a small device? .informit.com answers the question in their third "Exposed" feature, writer Seth Fogie takes a peek under the hood of the iPod to investigate this engineering marvel. However, he doesn't stop there! In an effort to improve upon the original design, Seth also upgrades the infamously scratchable faceplate with parts from a PSP. The result? A scratchproof clear faceplate that makes his iPod one of a kind.
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February 11, 2006
Pictured is a mockup for the Video iPod that is reportedly nearing completion. This mockup was pretty easy....via
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February 9, 2006
Apple is reportedly nearing completion of a completely revamped video iPod that will drop the mechanical click wheel for a touch screen and will sport a 3.5-inch diagonal display reports ThinkSecret
This video iPod, which has been in development and on the table since before Apple released the 5G iPod last year with video playback, will feature a display that will occupy the entire front face of the device. Sources who have seen the device report that it features a digital click wheel, one that overlays the touch-sensitive display and appears when a finger touches it and disappears when the finger is removed.
Like previous iPods, sources insist that this video iPod will lack any sort of wireless connectivity, and will continue to connect to televisions using the conventional cabling solution of current models.
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January 25, 2006
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iPods pre-loaded with video |
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A Massachusetts company named TVMyPod is selling iPods that come with movies and TV programs already loaded on them.
Customers choose any content currently available on a DVD and which iPod they want. TVMyPod then puts the content on the player and ships the original DVDs along with the iPod restored to its original packaging.
TVMyPod co-founder Vijay Raghavan said most people don't have the time or the technology to convert DVDs into the iPod's required format, which is what gave him and his business partner the idea to start the service reports Reuters
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December 10, 2005
On heels of releasing a new iPod clone - Zen Vision: M, Creative boss Sim Wong Hoo told the BBC he plans to "pursue aggressively" a US patent it owns on a system used to navigate music on digital players. Creative was one of the first to market digital music players in 2000, but has since been overshadowed by Apple. This little fact apparently eats Sim and he wants the world know it.
"We will pursue all manufacturers that use the same navigation system," said Mr Sim. "This is something we will pursue aggressively.
"Hopefully this will be friendly, but people have to respect intellectual property."
The similarly styled and priced device will compete directly with Apple Computer's video iPod for a spot on every technophile's holiday wish list. Creative plans to put the Vision:M up for sale this month, and with less than three weeks left in the shopping season, that makes the device a tough sell reports Forbes.
"They're extremely late," says Tim Bajarin, analyst with market research firm Creative Strategies, which is unaffiliated with Creative. "In this stage of the game, I'm skeptical this product will give them enough revenue to impact the bottom line for their next quarter."
Mr Sim denied the company had copied Apple's design, saying it had been working on the look for more than a year.
Creative are touting the Zen as a far more powerful player than Apple's offering, with additional functions such as FM radio and a built-in mic reports the BBC
"We are focused on the technology," he said. "This is still a technology marketplace."
"This is the key difference between a technology company and a branding company," he said, taking a side-swipe at Apple's successful marketing campaign for its iPod.
Past Quote - CEO Sim Wong Hoo on the Apple iPod Shuffle
We're expecting a good fight but they're coming out with something that's five generations older. It's our first generation MuVo One product feature, without display, just have a (shuffle feature). We had that - that's a four-year-old product. So I think the whole industry will just laugh at it, because the flash people - it's worse than the cheapest Chinese player. Even the cheap, cheap Chinese brand today has display and has FM. They don't have this kind of thing, and they expect to come out with a fight; I think it's a non-starter to begin with.
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December 8, 2005
The term 'podcast' has been declared Word of the Year by the New Oxford American Dictionary.
The official term, to be added to the online version of the dictionary during the next update early next year, is defined as "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player".
The word is derived from a combination of "broadcasting" and "iPod".
According to a recent Pew Internet and American Life Project survey "Podcasts" are catching on with people who own iPods or other digital-music players. Twenty-nine percent of U.S. adults who own MP3 players like Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod say they have downloaded podcast programs from the Internet. In Pew's poll, 11 percent of respondents said they owned an MP3 player, putting the total U.S. ownership at 22 million. Of those with MP3 players, 29 percent reported listening to a podcast. Pew said the survey has a 7.5 percent margin of error.
A Podcast consists of high resolution MP3 or other audio files wrapped in a RSS feed, RSS or really simple scripting is widely used on the web as a means to create news feeds or product updates that can be read bybrowsers and other websites. Podcasts have grown in prominence along with Weblogs, the online diaries that serve as alternative news sources reports LordPercy.
The term was coined by journalist Ben Hammersley and although originally derived from combining "broadcasting" and "iPod", this definition has become something of a misnomer as podcasts can be listened to on any digital music player reports BBC.
Some have criticised the term for giving too much credit to Apple, which had little to do with the development of the technology and some have tried to suggest alternative terms such as blogcasting or audioblogging.
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NBC Universal and Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday said they would make several NBC-owned television shows available on the iTunes music store.
The shows, taken from NBC, the USA Network and the SciFi Channel, include current and older programming, the companies said. NBC Universal is the second big broadcaster to agree to sell shows to users of Apple's new video iPod reports USATODAY
ABC in October announced a deal with Apple to sell reruns of hits such as Desperate Housewives and Lost. NBC Universal is offering 300 episodes from new shows such as Law & Order and The Office, classics Dragnet and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and segments from Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien's late-night shows.
"Eventually, a goal is to get all of our shows up there," said Jeff Zucker, president of the NBC Universal Television Group. "This benefits the consumers. Now they can watch great programming wherever they are and whenever they want."
Most of the programs cost $1.99, the same as hit programs "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives," which Walt Disney Co.'s ABC several weeks ago said it would offer at the iTunes music store.
The iTunes music store has sold more than 3 million videos since the iTunes catalog launched two months ago.
Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, estimates Apple has sold 1 million video iPods to date and is on track to sell an additional 1.5 million this month.
"This NBC deal is about more than the iPod," he says. "It's about Apple being the entity to become the personal media center for consumers. People will start using their computers to play back movies and TV shows."
Seperately, News Corp. announced it would begin distributing made-for-Internet episodes of "The Family Guy," its popular animated show, beginning next year reports Forbes
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November 23, 2005
 TiVo Inc. on Monday said it will begin testing a feature in the coming weeks to let some subscribers transfer recorded television programming to Apple iPod digital music players or Sony's PlayStation portable devices reports Reuters.
"The increasing popularity of mobile devices for viewing video, such as Apple's iPod and the PSP device, demonstrate the enormous consumer demand for entertainment on the go," Tom Rogers, the chief executive of TiVo, said.
"We're making it easy for consumers to enjoy the TV shows they want to watch right from their iPod or PSP - whenever and wherever they want"
One analyst briefed on the announcement said the new feature may raise "concerns" among program owners, who aim to profit from movies and shows either through DVD or online sales reports Reuters
"The TV industry has to embrace video on demand in cable, Internet and other forms of video distributions even though there are many ways these technologies allow distribution that doesn't make them any money," said Josh Bernoff, an analyst at Forrester Research.
The new version of the TiVoToGo service available to "stand-alone" TiVo subscribers will also include an "autosync" feature. This will enable subscribers to have shows automatically uploaded to their portable devices the morning after the shows were recorded from the TV. To guard against piracy, shows recorded via the service will have encoded digital watermarks so any illegal copying can be traced.
TiVo plans to make the feature available to all its subscribers early next year.
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November 4, 2005
Playboy Enterprises Inc. and Penthouse Media Group Inc., are considering adult movies for portable video players such as Apple Computer Inc.'s new iPod (sounds like a match made in heaven).
While Apple sold 1 million music videos and television shows for its new video iPod, many media outlets have a "wait and see" attitude to file sharing. So, adding adult content is a natural extension for mobile video players.
"When you look at what has driven the emerging technology for media distribution over the last 50 years, it's music and adult content," said David Bank, an analyst for RBC Capital Markets in New York. "It seems like a natural fit."
Ultimately, it will be content (adult or otherwise) that decides the fate of the video iPod -- and sexy babes might just be that "sweet spot" to get some extra players out there.
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