Video iPod and Ripped Content
My wife was asking me if the new video iPod could play other things other than videos and TV shows available from the iTunes Music Store. How about movies legally backed up from your own personal DVDs then encoded to the H.264 format and copied to your iPod? Could you watch these movies on the iPod or video out the iPod to a TV? Interesting question…
When Tabasco Man gets his new iMac and new iPod, he has to give us an answer.
Update: Looks like an answer is already out there to do this.
Update 2: You can transfer and watch your own movies to the video iPod. Here’s the article.
October 12, 2005 @ 11:38 pm
It’ll be interesting how the market uses the video ipod…I think the ABC partnership was a big boost. Do people still read books??? Technology is great but I wonder if it dumbs us down in some areas. Blogging not included! haha
October 12, 2005 @ 11:38 pm
It’ll be interesting how the market uses the video ipod…I think the ABC partnership was a big boost. Do people still read books??? Technology is great but I wonder if it dumbs us down in some areas. Blogging not included! haha
October 12, 2005 @ 11:38 pm
It’ll be interesting how the market uses the video ipod…I think the ABC partnership was a big boost. Do people still read books??? Technology is great but I wonder if it dumbs us down in some areas. Blogging not included! haha
October 13, 2005 @ 7:04 am
Aren’t all movies “backed-up” legal?
October 13, 2005 @ 7:27 am
If the movies are available on the internet then I believe its legal.
ha ha
October 13, 2005 @ 8:16 am
Yeah, I think the ABC partnership is to test the waters for other stations. If things go well, other stations will probably offer their shows for downloading. Apple needs the partnerships with content providers (music labels, podcasters, TV shows, music videos) for the iPod to thrive. If you got nothing to listen to or watch then what’s the point of the iPod?
Technology dumb us down? Probably. I can’t even spell “camaraderie” without using spell check.
October 13, 2005 @ 8:17 am
Backed up movies are legal except when you give them out to your friends or show them at your house on your big plasma screen and charge admission fees.
Not that Waipahu grads to that or anything like that…
October 13, 2005 @ 8:19 am
It’s hit or miss with movies on the internet. You could get crappy quality and the non-english version. Also could take days to find and download these files. If I can find high quality movies that download fairly quick and pay a few bucks (less than cable pay-per-view) then that might be appealing.