video iPod – i was right!
Saturday, October 15th, 2005god, i love it when i’m right… 😉
here was my prediction 4 (!) months ago.
here is where i was right:
a. apple would introduce a video ipod – that was not too difficult as the rumor sites were always predicting it!
b. i said in september – well, it happened in october
c. i said it will be itunes 5 – it’s now called itunes 6 (because apple pretty much skipped itunes 5 – it was only out for 2 or 3 weeks!)
d. i said: pvr/mp3/photo – well, close enough: it’s a video / mp3 / photo player (i was wrong with the recording feature!)
e. bigger screen (and jonathan ive’s genius) – the form, look & feel factor are very close to the older generation ipods and it has a slightly bigger screen! (excatly what i thought it would be like)
e. download music videos, tv shows, movies – right, except for the movies but that will happen sooner or later (see also below)
now two things that need to be discussed:
1. video recording: the new ipod cannot record videos (yet) but there is already a tutorial on how to put dvds on the new ipod. and soon there will ways on how to put recordings from elgato’s eyetv and from tivo on the ipod.
2. watching imovie content on it – now that is a bit more delicate and i was hoping for a more integrated approach but nonetheless apple has a way of importing imovies to the ipod with quicktime pro. now you need quicktime pro (around EUR 30 – so no big deal) but i would say this should come with each ipod!
all in all i was completely right! AND had no input from any outside sources!
i wish i could do this more often… predicting the future is fun!
update: here is how to convert eyetv to the ipod and apparently elgato is already working on an upgrade! (update 3: apparently this does not work! let’s hope for a quick update by elgato themselves…)
update 2: seems like apple has another “how to” here for imovie. apparently nothing else required…