Apple to unveil Video Ipod on October 12th?
MSNBC is speculating that Apple may unveil a new ipod for video during their special announcement scheduled for Oct 12th. The BBC also backs this notion while Thinksecret seems to disagree so there are some conflicting reports.
What I can say is if they do unveil any portable device that can subscribe to RSS feeds and play multiple video formats, then they could really revolutionize videocasting as much as they have podcasting.
I know there was allot of hype around pspcasting a few months ago when I posted this article, but after a customer asked me yesterday “Did anything ever happen with that?”… in all honesty and as far as I can tell, nothing really. This may have been due to the way psp's require a proprietary video format to work with their handheld which requires a combination of bittorrent and a special conversion software to work properly so the complexity level wasn't all that user friendly.
If the iPod video is announced, the true explosion will happen if the device supports all video formats, and not just the apple .avi format. We'll see what happens, but with this announcement coinciding with the second annual Quicktime Live! event, I personally don't see allot of hope for cross-platform support.
