“Apple Computer Inc. has e-mailed invitations to reporters for a special event next week, prompting speculation on the Internet that the company would unveil a long-rumored iPod that can display videos,” Duncan Martell reports for Reuters. “The invitation from Apple, which is notoriously tight-lipped about its future products, said simply: ‘One more thing…'” Apple declined to comment beyond the invitation.
Martell reports, “Many analysts have said Apple is all but certain to introduce a version of the No. 1 digital music player that can also play video. Most models of the current iPods, in addition to playing music, can also display photos and perform other functions with accessories that are sold separately. ‘There’s a whole generation coming up that doesn’t have a lot in their checking account but will some day, who think this is a cool idea,’ said Roger Kay, president of market research firm Endpoint Technology Associates, referring to a video iPod. ‘It would be a very Jobsian move to say it’s stupid and bring one out anyway,’ Kay said, referring to an iPod that plays video. Kay added that Apple would need to have wrapped up agreements with major studios and record labels over copyright protection and antipiracy technology similar to its FairPlay digital rights management software used in iPods and on its iTunes online music store.”
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Why is everybody so sure that the announcement is the iPod Video? It could just as easily (and, in my opinion, more likely) be upgrades to the PowerBook, iBook, and PowerMac lines.
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Funny how some analysts said it would next year before the vPod was released.
Why do they even bother trying to figure out what apple is up to? the only times they are right is when someone has actually leaked info to them.
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ANALysts are usually way off, just look at the spread of their iPodsales estimates
Remember when you were mad if you thought about Apple and a flash iPod, video iPod, two botton mouse, or sub $500 machine in the same sentence? It’s been a cold year in hell indeed.
Why does ANYONE bother? Apple does things Apple’s way.
And we all know that they Think Different.
magic word: easy, as in its easy to guess what Apple with do, but only they really know.
You are so right macaddict merritt. We are living large.
It’s all a poopshoot, I’m in the market for a Mac mini just for the SuperDrive, so an iPod that costs just as much just isn’t going to be on my plate anytime soon.
I said many times. We are not going to come out with video on the iPod. Do you people listen??
SeanMon, you are an idiot. You really think Apple would have a PRESS CONFERENCE to announce a speed upgrade to an existing product line? Yeah, right.
I am convinced that next week Jobs will announce the fabled iWalk PDA! I’ve been waiting for this since 2002!
I am bored of these Apple special event annoucements. If they have a produce to launch then just launch the thing without the tease! By the way, my money is on some iPod nano replacement screens … scratch resistant. 3 for $50.
keith in tokyo – I sort of agree.
I want a small tablet with a touch screen that makes use of inkwell – like NEWTON – but also provides that touch screen control of itunes and hifi systems/mac mini etc. either via Bluetooth or through the Airport/express etc.
A video ipod is not going to be much better than a PSP with a 2GB memory stick and the PSP is less than $200 and plays games as well. So if its just a video ipod – for the number of times I’d use it, the truth is a ripped DVD to memory stick and or Sony UMDs with a PSP would still get my vote.
If it is a new device its got to joint hifi & Computer & TV + PDA if its going to push the envelope of what’s out there already. Great design isn’t everything.
Here’s my prediction:
The invitation has theatre curtains in the background- so it’s something to do with movies. My guess is that it’ll be an 80GB iPod with a bigger screen- one that works in portait mode for menus and landscape mode for videos. (The scroll wheel will be smaller to make room) Initially you’ll be able to download music videos or view your own exported iMovies. After launch the demand will be for TV and movie content which will be added to iTunes, but in the meantime users will be able to rip their own purchased DVDs and save in a suitable H264 format for viewing on the iPod video.
Scotty – I hope you’re wrong.
PSP does that and plays games.
the PSP will never touch the iPod. Please. With that big beautiful screen and a … UMD reader insider.. the battery life is pathetic. Plus Sony has not really designed any respectable iTunes competitor to sync with PCs/Macs.. Furthermore.. Sony designed something with such a huge screen that, really, I cannot imagine too many people using the PSP as a music player.
There really isn’t anything tremendous to say about PSP except.. the graphics are gorgeous, but.. um.. rehashed PS2 games and 2hrs of battery life? Yawn.
Is is a new video ipod or a really, really small laptop????
i’m hoping for a large screen attachement for current ipod’s, something that fits on the back of the ipod so you can still use the scroll wheel (cleverly mirrored on the large display that fades out after a few seconds ala apple’s own dvd player) who remembers that attachement that was prototyped a few months ago but got shut down? shut down for a reason
or how about an ipod thats just an entire screen with the scroll wheel under it?
Video iPod?! How totally useless and unimaginative; a completely non-Apple concept. No one watches video on-the-go.
BUT…
Steve could introduce the new Apple Media Store for streaming subscription video, purchased video and audio, as well as free video “Podcasts” of television broadcast programs.
Then he’ll introduce an all new device to utilize this service…
A HD compatible media device for the home with…
• Blue-Ray compatible DVD-RW (saving video)
• Tuner (with TiVo-like abilities)
• Airport (streaming video/audio from iMac, also iMac data backup)
• iPod universal dock for quick and easy transporting of video files and playing the iPod through the TV or stereo (that’s what the adapter is for in the nano box) …and you thought the 60Gb iPod was a waste of space.
Steve has never failed to shock the industry and awe the public. A lame video iPod just isn’t Steve’s style. When will you creatively challenged people ever learn?
Re: Home Media Device
If Apple designs the remote to be very iPod-like, clean lines and eliminating the typical and confusing 30-button remote on most coffee tables, that alone will be a huge hit!
MDN headline: “Analysts: Apple all but certain to introduce video iPod”
Dumb.
Time for a remedial headline writing course.
Finally an Apple PDA again that does video and music. It will need some kind of wireless option though. Cingular data only plans? How many people actually use their Blackberry for voice?
Hmm… what to name it?
I agree with others its an entirely new product and the curtains on the invite while they could just be suggesting a reveal on stage are most likely there very definately as a hint that its video related. Not necessarily iPod maybe home media device. However Scotty’s suggestion is equally compelling and certainly will be the way iPod will go, it has to despite the PSP’s existence or the latter and devices like it (how long before MS develops a handheld) will take over its market eventually.
If the lager iPods can evolve into such a device gradually and maintain success while they do so then with the massive usage (potential and real) they may even be able to eventually compete in games too which in itself will spill over into Macs something that is vital if Macs seriously want to become the home media centre, which brings us full circle as to what will be announced.
iPod SchmiPod…
I want to see new PowerBooks and PowerMacs!!!
The PowerBook is due for a refresh and I’m ready to buy!
A VidiPod seems a pretty lame idea. Little TVs have been around forever and Little DVD players for years. A while back, there was a mini-NYC trend where the homeboyz would sit spreadeagled on the subway (as always) watching an action movie on a portable DVD system. That made me want to run out and buy one! I wondered why not spend a little more get a small laptop and have something useful?!?!
I STILL think that an iBook is a great VidiPod!
I could see a VidiPod connected to a TV or home theatre setup, but isn’t a DVD disk a perfectly acceptable medium? And a LOT cheaper?
Whoever mentioned an Apple branded multi-media device that links hi-fi, TV, etc. and lets you download HD video and burn to your very own disk in your own livingroom or office probably is on to something. I LOVE the idea of an iPod-like remote control that’s MORE than a remote control, with Bluetooth, Wi-fi, the works!
John ; if you are so tired of speculations and apples marketing why bother posting here ? = )
I guess it has something to do with moviedownloads, and maybe a mediacenter-ish Mac Mini with wifi-to-TV …
Mediacenter has been around for soooo long from Microsoft but has never gained any momentum in sales…guess it takes someone like Apple to do that, just as with mp3 players and musicdownloads…
Anyway I very exited…but have learned to keep my expectations low…
i hope the analyst are wrong as ususal. As much as I think a vPod woud be a sort of cool novelty, I tend to agree with what Jobs has siad along about about the practicality of watching movies that way. Frankly, I think the vPod idea is too small and unimaginative for a “one more thing” announcement. I will not venture a guess as to what it will be. I just hope Apple hasn’t copped out and comes up with something a little more spectacualar and “insanely great” as a just a white, Apple version of the PSP.
This does it. I’ve had it. The suspense being with Apple is killing me..I’m switching back to Windows….!
Prediction: Totally out of blue. MS licenses iTune, Fairplay and QuickTime. WMA player will support these formats. The audio format war has ended. iTMS set to become the only legal music download service.
>definately>
Yes it will definitely or dafinately or deffinitely be sumthink knew.
I am not sure what is coming next week but I am of the opinion that an Intel based product will debut PRIOR TO the first Mac based computer system. Steve will hold true to his word that the first Mac system won’t appear before the middle of 2006-BUT I BELIEVE THAT THERE WILL BE A LEAD IN BEFORE THAT DATE THAT INVOLVES INTEL AND A NEW DIGITAL PRODUCT.
Mike – I don’t agree that a apple iPod video is viable as a single device.
PSP is great for movies – great screen. not so good for music. Sound quality isn’t brilliant and volume is pathetic. But it does games and is therefore a good kids travel companion for the car etc.
So why combine iPod with Video. It’s as useless as mobiles with cameras – a 5 minute wonder.
The Nano is so small why would you want to combine it wit anything else. Most people have less than 5 gigs of music on their iPods – even if they splash out on a 20/30/40/60 Gig version.
Any iPodvideo would have to sell on its own merits and if you are listening to music most times you are walking, bussing, cycling etc. not static and in a position to look at a screen; so why carry around a big device with a screen?
they just released the nano.
and now a video ipod? that pisses me off as a new nano user. i just bought one thing and now they might come out with something bigger and better. apple is going to get burned in the long run, they are going to run out of ideas and push to many new products onto the market. they should wait until atleast mid-november for another release and that is still even to soon.
they need to spread things out so when vista comes out they keep people interested in apple. even though an ipod has nothing to do with vista they still need to generate news. to much to soon. the resurgence of apple is headed to the fad category rrrrreal quick, i give it until after the mactel’s come out. then apple will be doneso 6 month to a year after.
Bring back the eMate with Ive style, modern innards, a special version of Tiger, a color screen and built-in cellular wireless connectivity. And either a wind-up battery charger or a tiny nuclear fission reactor. Bridging the gap for more gadgets with widgets?
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
– Douglas Adams
Apple is about to upstage MS with a device intro that is going to rock the video world. There is no way it will compete directly with the new iPod nano. As was mentioned on another thread, Steve will pull a remote control out of his pocket and press a button, the theater screen will open and the lights will dim…
one more thing…
suggests something big not just upgraded computers
ipod video that plugs into any TV mb
think of a portable movie archive that plugs into any TV
of course ppl will want to have/use that
the future – 10 terabyte flash ipod 10 000 movies or 1 000 000 songs
napster cheif complains ‘who can afford to fill an ipod for $1 000 000’
radiomoscow: “napster chief complains ‘who can afford to fill an ipod for $1 000 000′”
Very funny!
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you guys are all way off.
There’s something to be said against a major iPod announcement if only because of the recent release of the nano. As it is, Apple is currently milking the first adopter elements of the faithful and frivolous with the nano. The same first adopters that purchased the nano are hardly going to spring immediately for another iPod device unless it has a completely different function. A vPod with the major benefit being the video out and playback on a small screen doesn’t seem like the “must have” device that would drive those who already dropped a couple hundred dollars on a nano to shill out again.
That being said, it seems unlikely that the Apple Media Store would be launched without a corresponding device or that they would have a special media event for simple speed bumps.
My humble prediction:
Whatever Apple does, they will not release a device that is simply an upgraded iPod or new high-end movie-capable media player. If the release is hardware it will be radically different in terms of function (like the ROTN: Return of the Newton) or a tablet Mac or something along those lines. I could easily see a Apple Media Store being introduced to get people comfortable with videocasting and buying short films/music videos, though, again, absent a vPod, it doesn’t seem typical of Apple’s strategy of the past.
The gimme’s of the event are upgrades of at least several lines (long needed) and possibly an upgrade of some software (Pages 2 or something along those lines…)
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Spouse,
Is it osx86?
The spyware- virus killer-that-also-does-windows?
I see a whole series of ginsu style ads.
You know the ones, the people who are trying to operate the competition’s product they seem to have nueral-motor disorders; then they operate the ginsu and pow! like a scalpel in the hand of a nueral surgeon.
There’s more where that came from. Can your significant other get me a job in marketing?
mw= size size the day?
hi i would like to know how to download music to the psp i have gone to every sie in the world but i still can not find it so send back if you dont know how either that is ok i will just go to game stop and ask them