Dec 02 2005
Video iPod
My fiancee recently got the new video iPod. And after spending some time loading music videos, tv shows, home movies, photos, and an enormous CD library, she finally got the video iPod.
I have been drooling over this device since the rumors first started flying earlier this year. As someone who works in digital media, I am a strong believer (and have been since my days as a Palm-Pilot software developer) that portability and digitization is crucial to the future of the entertainment industry. Although I do love my CDs and DVDs, I need my media in a digital format that can be accessed, transferred, edited, modified, and squashed as I wish and when I wish. Other than the media that cannot be modified due to license restrictions, I spend a lot of time conforming my digital media libraries to my own specific preferences. Compressing digital video, transcoding from MPEG-2 to H.264, converting from AAC to MP3 and back… the list goes on. Call me an enormous geek, but I do these things every day.
And finally we have a device that lets me store, transport, and enjoy all forms of my media that does not take up a desk or laptop bag. Sixty wonderful gigabytes of storage space for all my digital treasures.
So, if you haven’t quite figured out the beauty of this device (for example, saying “who would watch video on that small screen?”) you simply haven’t experienced the possibilities that it opens up. Trust me.
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Could not agree more. It’s what frustrates me so much about DRM’ed media formats – if I can’t do what I want to them, including burn, rip, compress, decompress and play on a variety of devices… then what’s the point? I’ll just get the free (as in no-restrictions) version off the P2P nets.
Boy do I want a video ipod, though. :)