The Myth of Mobile Video

but you can hook it up to your TV, so you could have a crapload of movies on it, take it to a friend’s house and hook it up to their TV and watch.

but where do you get these movies? And I mean legal stuff. What it would need is a sort of Music Store for movies… A Blockbusters that is purely download - and you’d need a shot load of bandwidth

Yeah totally - I think that’s the whole idea with the photo thing. Bore your mates to death with all your holiday snaps. What it needs though is an album app for movies - at the moment nothing like that really exists - ignoring iView and Extensis Portfolio - for regular users. I think that is going to come but like you say it will be an evolutionary thing.

I’m one of those people who’s upset about the fact that they didn’t put video on it.

They already have music videos on the Music Store - why not have it so you can download those right to your iPod.. so you can see the music as well as hear it?

Apple/Quicktime is basically the sole provider of Movie Trailers on the internet, isn’t it?

All of the first year students at Duke University were given iPods to store school files, and notes - Imagine what the possibilities would be for video-referencing say, in a medical school program.

Considering the fact that these devices come with such capacity, I would love to extract the video off of a number of my personal DVDs, just to have on there for long flights. To be honest, I’m a little embarassed most of the time to go through the trouble of taking out a laptop, booting it up, and watching a film on a big screen, knowing well and clear that the people around me can see everything I’m watching. I don’t know, I just don’t like being ‘that guy’.

You don’t think people will hold an Ipod up to their face to watch an hour long movie? Uhhhhhmmm don’t people play games on their cell phone for hours at a a time?

totally different. You’re actually USING the device rather than simply watching. You HAVE TO HOLD a device to play the game. It’s a very big difference. And do people actually play a game on their mobile for an hour and a half non stop?

I see it as an evolutionary thing also, eventually working alongside the likes of http://www.elgato.com/ products eyeTV and eyeHome (sky+ for yer Mac basically), which I think Apple should be looking to integrate into the consumer end of their product line (old LC Mac’s had TV cards!?!). Everyone I know with Sky+ plusses everything but never gets round to watching it. Just think, every day on that boring halfhour train journey to work, you could squeeze in last night’s Easties or an ep of The Simpsons or even the morning new bulletins that you didn’t have to get up half an hour earlier to catch up on before work. I know it’s maximising the time/work/life equation gone mad, but that’s the world we’re hurtling into.
New SmallTime up btw Bren!! Just a novelty filler, got fed up of starting and scrapping grander plans.

Hey Jim bloody good to hear from you. You make some good points. I think the main thing I was talking about was whole movies but I do think there is a place for video on mobile devices though I think it’ll be a new kind of “fast food” video. Super short bulletins, quick comedy sketches etc. I see people are also using video on phones for dating too!

not too fussed about the iPod photo, I’ll stick with my 30GB 3G and iPod mini. the next pod for me will be one that has built in Wi-Fi for streaming AirTunes on the spot. mmm!

8372 Very well said chappy.