Monday, 17 October 2005
So they launch a video iPod. And The Australian headline notes, ‘Nothing on new iPod’. Warwick Rothnie talks about it here.
Rather, the headline should probably be, ‘Nothing new on iPod’. According to news reports, the device will play video you create yourself. So, my guess would be, it plays unprotected formats.
And we all know what happens when a device plays unprotected formats. Like, say, the iPod does with, say, mp3s. Right? Or am I wrong about this? Is there anything on this iPod which will prevent people playing, say, tv episodes downloaded from P2P networks or elsewhere?
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October 19th, 2005 at 12:29 pm
Yes, the new iPod deals with video just like the old iPod deals with auddio. It will play unprotected, standard MPEG-4 files that you make yourself or find online, and it will not prevent you from doing anything you like with those files. Or you can choose to pay Apple for DRM-crippled files, and then be restricted in how you can use those files. Apple may also in the future add new, retrospective restrictions on how you may use the DRM-crippled files, just as they’ve done with their “fairplay” audio files.
There are howto pages on the web showing how to encode your own video files to play on your iPod, and how to rip DVDs to iPod video files.
If you take a look at the p2p networks, they are already filled with TV episodes and movies specially encoded for iPod. The low-res iPod screen (320×240 pixels) means that these files are small (120 MB or so for a TV episode, under 500 MB for a movie). Widespread adoption of .mp4 will likely drive the studios into Apple’s arms, just as we saw with .mp3.
October 20th, 2005 at 8:50 am
Wow – interesting. Thanks Viveka!