iPod 6th generation

These were going around before the 5th gen revision was released. Old news.

Not sure how viable the idea is. Surely if they can make it work it'd be great, but I think the current iPod is really pretty good for video. I wouldn't want to watch a whole lot of video portably anyway. What I like about the iPod now is that you can take 640 x 480 H.264 and hook your iPod up to a TV and show it. Now that action's gonna look pretty damn good, no matter which way you slice it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by neothe0ne

I thought the iPod only exported a video resolution of 320x240...

Until the latest revision, you were correct. In fact, now ALL of the 5th gen iPods support 640 x 480 H.264. My guess is that Apple got a more efficient decoder which allowed them to merely update the iPod's software and provide for this functionality. Still, cool beans though.

And no, the PSP is not much better for video, because the last time I checked, you couldn't even encode content at the native size of the screen. The only videos that were actually the screen's resolution were UMDs. So yeah, the screen's bigger, but people had to use 320 x 240, which was then stretched. However, since I really don't have an interest in portable gaming, I don't follow PSP news, so they may have updated that, I don't know.

Then again, the PSP isn't really an iPod replacement. I mean, if portable video is your primary goal, that's fine, but even then, the PSP is a game system first. I want a music player first and foremost, and if it plays video well too, that's just a bonus feature.

Besides, yes, 640 x 480 is not QUITE DVD resolution for SD content, but it's very very close. On an HDTV even, it'll look pretty fantastic. Not as good as actual HDTV of course, but pretty good. I certainly remember 640 x 480 content on my last HDTV piped out from my laptop's DVI port looked very good.

There's nowhere I can't reach.