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I've been watching videos in iTunes for a while now. of particular interest is the "systm" (sic) "vcast". In fact you can have more than video, you can have pdf's as well. One guy in my podcast playlist just lreases text file, and occasional videos, no audio yet!

This has been known about for a loooong time.

Posted anonymously so I could nab that troll at the top.

First of all, let's have a quick chuckle over "Apple's recent application for a patent on the phrase 'iPodcast.'" and move on :)

I noticed that iTunes could handle "video podcasts" in the last version (4.7?) and there's a little writeup of the capability paired with del.ici.us over at lifehacker:

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/entertainment/h ow-to-find-and-add-media-to-your-itunes-library-wi th-delicious-110812.php

Does it mean that a video iPod is "on the way"? Not neccesarily. iTunes has had the ability to play video for a while, and podcasting video is not much different from podcasting audio. Parse
  the rss, download the associated media, add to a special playlist. I think the feature was added as an afterthought or experiment: "hey, we can add a couple lines and support this!".

The video iPod remains the white whale of Apple enthusiasts. Often speculated about, never seen.

First of all, let's have a quick chuckle over "Apple's recent application for a patent on the phrase 'iPodcast.'" and move on :)

I noticed that iTunes could handle "video podcasts" in the last version (4.7?) and there's a little writeup of the capability paired with del.ici.us over at lifehacker:

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/entertainment/h ow-to-find-and-add-media-to-your-itunes-library-wi th-delicious-110812.php

Does it mean that a video iPod is "on the way"? Not neccesarily. iTunes has had the ability to play video for a while, and podcasting video is not much different from podcasting audio. Parse
  the rss, download the associated media, add to a special playlist. I think the feature was added as an afterthought or experiment: "hey, we can add a couple lines and support this!".

The video iPod remains the white whale of Apple enthusiasts. Often speculated about, never seen.