“According to a seemingly reliable, yet unconfirmed report, the micro-chip Apple plans to use in its 4th generation iPod will not only allow for hardware decoding of MPEG-4/AAC, but will also boast several ENCODE capabilities. The source of the tip refused to provide further comment on other known details of the chip, but claimed no inside knowledge of how Apple plans on using the ENCODE capability in the new iPod, noting only that it would would be churlish of the company ignore the feature,” AppleInsider reports.
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MacDailyNews Take: Rumor. Not fact. Yet. Maybe never. And, yes, those dudes said “churlish.” Heh-heh.
Instead of monopoly I should have said “monopoly”.
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Article:
“the micro-chip Apple plans to use in its 4th generation iPod will not only allow for hardware decoding of MPEG-4/AAC, but will also boast several ENCODE capabilities.”
Notice that it is “hardware decoding of MPEG-4/AAC”. It does not say in what format it is capable to encode. I have no idea how powerful the chip is, but I stand by my statement that you need a very powerful chip to encode videos in realtime.
One possibility of this chip could be that you won’t have to encode music before you transfer it to the iPod. Whatever you hook up, from a CD player to a non AAC-compatible download service, automatically gets encoded to AAC for the purposes of running on the iPod. You will no longer have to worry whether you get your music from ITMS, Sony, Coke or even Microsoft, you just have to have an iPod and you’re off!
Next, Steve will cure world hunger…