MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first

I just uploaded my first pornographic videocast. Everything's changed now. I'm going to be rich. Gosh I hope my mom and dad don't notice that their camcorder is sticky.

Which is my not-so-subtle way of asking, "What Hell hath Apple wrought?"

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73831930

The CrashTestKitchen is another good example.

Watching video on a small screen is fine by me...very useful. Just like the original tiny quicktime videos. Been doing that since the first video Archos product years ago.

Wow. There is actually something useful to do with a theoretical video iPod.

Somehow the movies won't play within iTunes, only the sound. The movies are downloaded, and can be played with Quicktime.

MW: Look, as in, look I can't see the movies in iTunes.

I have not yet been able to get a podcast to load on either my shuffle or 4th g iPod. What am I doing wrong. I've iTunes set up to pull them down, but how do you get them to update onto the iPod automatically?

aToMac:
Make sure you click "Podcasts" in iTunes' "Source" menu. You'll see the video, not just hear the audio that way.

What if:

All you needed to buy was a Video out cable and iTunes 5.0 in order to plug your video content into any TV and watch a vBlog or Music Video or (gasp) full length movie. I mean really, the iPod doesn't come with speakers, why should it need it's own monitor.

Is the (hardware) capability in the iPod now?

MW= play as in I wanna play movies on my iPod

That wasn't the problem, I didn't have Artwork visible. Now it works. Thanks. This realy rocks!

For dutch readers there are several vodcasts from the dutch broadcast companies:
http://www.rvu.nl/vodcast.xml (copy this link into itunes)
http://www.vodcast.nl/feeds/3voor12.xml (same as above, a MTV like station)
and all for free!!
another interesting vodcast is Digirati University:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=73799863&selectedItemId=500838

Sum Jung, Where can I download your video!

Watching video on a small screen is fine by me...very useful

---

Nah, I'm not going to be the hypocritical mac user on this one.. give me a bigger screen or I'm not gonna watch anything longer than 3 minutes..

The music videos are logical.. sports highlights, etc.. great... a movie or anything with a plot? No freakin way.

mike,

I'm sure you have a bigger screen somewhere (your TV and computer monitor). The point is that for longer form video content, you plug your "iPod video" into it to watch.

Very nice! I'm impressed! Was slightly jerky..

I think these idea is great. People seem to forget that the Podcasts are not only listened to on the go, but also played back on computers during the day at work. I listen to NBC Nightly News every day at work without ever loading it onto an iPod. If I had a video Podcast, I might watch it during my lunch break or during a break during the day. Don't discount this because of small screen size, I don't think that is necessarily the purpose of the video Podcast.

Another example might be to download your favorite tv show or movie and take it over to a friends to watch on their tv while you visit with them. I know several times I have fogotten to tape a show or movie, but one of my friends did on their DVR but they have no way to get it to me. It would be nice to be able to download it through iTunes or straight off the DVR and borrow it from them to watch. That would be perfect I think.

This is moving faster than I thought...

Look for a new platform (combo iPod/Newton/iBook/tablet -
I'm gonna call it the "iPAD"

coming RSN

judge,

I've said many many times in the past, the ipod is ideal for storing movies and plugging the iPod directly into your TV/Mon. is perfect.. even the iPod controls (clickwheel) can be used for navigation.

Again. You definitely do NOT need a video ipod for this.. We just need Apple to do an iPod Software Update. I stand by my previous statement. Watching movies on an iPod is stupid.

Drawback? iTunes turning into WMP with all this different media flowing through the iPod.

Solution? Although it's not perfect, iSync might take on a bigger role.. Syncing Video to a designated iPod Video folder in your Movies folder, and Syncing your Photos etc

All this Finder management stuff is a pain in the neck, I'm sure Apple will come up with something better..

Sadly, they may end up bringing out this iFlix thing, then we'll have an App for viewing/managing Video.. That software bugs me.

mike,

Is it "stupid" that while on my lunch hour I might want to watch a TV show from last night or lat week or last month? I might be sitting in my car or at my desk and I could do so if the iPod played video on its screen.

Just because you can't imagine uses for a video iPod, doesn't mean their aren't any uses for such a device. You sound like a Window user and/or a Microsoft employee. Think Different.

This is freakin' cool. As far as all those crazy people who think pornography is gonna come into iTunes, I wouldn't worry about it. The podcasts that are racy in iTMS are very intelligent and talk about fantasies and such. They are awesome, but some tight-assed people with their own fears of sexuality are threatened by them of course. I am sure Apple would never allow pornography to be d-loaded from iTMS.

I noticed this feature the day 4.9 was released...
To me, it appears to be the first version of the new way we will all watch television. I can't wait to see bookmarkable video casts.
The term PodCast really is misleading in the terms of videocasts. ITunes could just as easily become our interface for watching TV as well as being the controller for the audio content of our beloved iPods.
I've noticed that iTunes will store other filetypes as well, like pdf, for example, does that mean that the iPod will have vector graphic support and document editing capabilities? I doubt it.
iTunes and the iPod are two totally separate entities and will end up having features that might not be identical between the two.

Is it "stupid" that while on my lunch hour I might want to watch a TV show from last night or lat week or last month?

--

Oh hell yes. That's madness. Watching Video on such a small screen is lame. Trust me, you don't want that.. people are going to be sitting down by you and talking to each other and here's you, the ultimate anti-social prick with his iPod trying to catch "Joey".. yeah, real smooth.. and if you're lucky you might catch half the jokes, because you'll probably be distracted by people around you. Oh yeah, and the video part.. a painful 3" screen that was never meant for motion video..

At least the Creative Players are bigger, but even they die from convergence.. if the Video iPod comes out (in its current form..with color motion video) it will be the black sheep. What a lousy experience.

But SJ has already written it off, so it won't happen..

A tablet on the other hand.. hrmmmmm

This will help with the download speeds...

http://news.com.com/Super-fast+broadband+coming+via+cable/2100-1035_3-5796054.html

The iPod is the portable version of your iTunes Library (among other things like contacts, games, notes, etc.). Apple will make the video contained in your iTunes library playable on your iPod. This much seems obvious by now. Microsoft, Real, Napter, etc. are fscked.

This is pretty cool

feed://feeds.feedburner.com/diggnationvideo

Try the Will Ferrell macTV videocast. Pretty funny.

Can't wait 'til the iPod supports videocasting!

Just as wireless broadband will make wired phones obsolete (already happening), Videocasts will make cable and broadcast TV obsolete. It's better than TiVo!

If you want a sample of the quality and download speed, check out
"macTV Show #4 - Macteens HD WWDC ‘05 Coverage" at...
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=76739584&selectedItemId=464838

Download what you want when you want it.
Save it as easily as your songs in iTunes.
Yea, you're right, a video iPod may be too small for some, but for those stuck on an endless string of long flights, it's better than watching the shine on the bald head in front of you for 5 hours.
Perhaps a new Airport Express will have video out, too, so you can beam all of your downloads to whichever TV you want.

Who'd a thunk that Apple would make all of the cable companies obsolete?! Waiting for a particular station to transmit a TV program is so 2004. Get what you want when you want it.

What else can you do with it? ummm.....

- Online video classes on ANY subject.
- Every movie made and every TV program ever broadcasted available instantly.
- Video mail sent, saved and retrieved easier than email.
- Independent programs; think "Wayne's World".
- International programs.

I'm sure you can think of much more!

Oops!

If above link doesn't work, try...
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=76739584

Downloaded the example linked in the story, updated my Podcasts, then plugged in the trusty iPod. Up pops a dialog/warning:
"Some of the songs in the iTunes music library, including the song :macTV Show #5 - Apple 'Think Different' Ad", were not copied to the iPod "xxxxxxxx's iPod" because they cannot be played on this iPod."

Huh? Cannot be played on THIS iPod. Which one CAN it be played on? Not gonna build a video iPod, huh? OK...

As predicted by me two weeks ago at OS X Code (r,s): http://www.osxcode.com/2005/07/16/the-future-of-podcasting/

What do I win? :D

Fredi

ITS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE, ITS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE , ITS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE, ITS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE, ITS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE, WAVE OF THE FUTURE, WAVE OF THE FUTURE, WAVE OF THE FUTURE , WAVE OF THE FUTURE , WAVE OF THE FUTURE, WAVE OF THE FUTURE, WAVE OF THE FUTURE......

Get the picture...?

While watching video on a tiny screen may seem stupid to some (me included), there are many people who would welcome such a feature, and would find it useful, so I'm not going to sneer at them. To each his own.

What intrigues me, however, is what podcasts may soon offer, as described by David Pogue of the New York Times in his latest column (July 28th) "In One Stroke, Podcasting Hits Mainstream" (free registration required).

Pogue discusses Apple's brilliant move in incorporating podcasts into iTunes 4.9, but the part I found most exciting was his description of "enhanced podcasts". While describing the podcasts available on iTMS, he talks about the Top 20 list:

"Spot No. 1 [on the Top 20 list], though, is often occupied by something called iTunes New Music Tuesday, an Apple-produced show whose D.J. introduces and plays the latest pop music. It's a so-called enhanced podcast, a format that displays slideshow-like graphics at relevant points in the audio. These images appear right in iTunes (in the cover-art area) and even on the iPod itself, if it has a color screen. Cheerful geeks have already hijacked this feature to create, for example, podcasts that walk you through various acts of PC surgery, with photos popping up to accompany the spoken instructions."

The ability to have your color iPod display, for example, instructional diagrams at the appropriate points in the commentary is a superb feature. It's a no-brainer to predict a flood of such enhanced podcasts with instruction manuals, travel guides, lessons and lectures, etc. I firmly believe that these sorts of uses for podcasts will be widespread in short order. Apple has indeed made a brilliant move with iTunes 4.9.

The ability to have your color iPod display, for example, instructional diagrams at the appropriate points in the commentary is a superb feature. It's a no-brainer to predict a flood of such enhanced podcasts with instruction manuals, travel guides, lessons and lectures, etc. I firmly believe that these sorts of uses for podcasts will be widespread in short order. Apple has indeed made a brilliant move with iTunes 4.9.

---

I absolutely love this.. the only problem is.. it starts to get REALLY good, but you have to ask.. 'is the producer gonna do all that work for free?'

I would LOVE to get a daily language lesson (I'm learning chinese) and having chinese characters shown on an iPod photo while you're listening, that would be incredible.. these 'enhanced' podcasts are basically slideshows with sound..

the potential for such an application is incredible.

imagine a news feed, talking abou.. oh i dont know.. Iraq.. and having sattelite images, or images of world leaders .. shown on your iPod, just as still photos are shown on TV..

this could be your commute back home on the bus everyday.. (oh wait.. news that's a day old? hold on a sec)..

ah well.. you get the idea.. you can have iTunes at work, maybe..

PS. I highly reccommend Romeo's Celebrity Crank Calls

Hmmm as I watched this I seem to remember that H.264 is supposed to allow scaling from small screen to HD and/or big screen? So maybe with H264 implementation the full screen in quick time wont be so blocky and h.264 implemented on the ipod will allow it to be connected to a tv or monitor so that the ipod can be used to play video/movies?

Wanna see the videocasts in full screen mode? Don't you geeks ever look right in front of your noses?

Take a guess. What is that little button with the 4 arrows to the right of the Show Album Artwork button? Hover your mouse over the button for the answer.. it reads: Show video full screen.

This is the first time I've ever seen this button functional so it stood out to me like a sore thumb.

Just awesome. And yes, now I finally understand what thebutton with the 4 arrows means!

I was thinking some more about this, and occurs to me that the current small screen on the iPod is not limited by the size of the iPod itself. What about a screen that is widescreen dimensions that takes up most of the front of the iPod. I think that about doubles the screen size. All you need then is some imagination around the controls (maybe a Blackberry solution?)

Even more telling that a video ipod is coming is that the video example that plays on ITunes.... when I try and import it to my ipod in itunes 4.9, I get an error message that says, "Some of the songs in the ITunes music library, including the song "mactv show #6 - wild postings", were not coppied on the the ipod "JYBaritone's Ipod" because they cannot be played on this ipod."

i thought it was Way of the future. damn he said it enough times .lol

http://www.nokia.com/mobiletv

Everybody's doing it...