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High-Definition Video Add-on Coming to iPod

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-about-a-mos-def-add-on? dept.

Rofy89 writes "In about five months, you'll be able to watch high-definition video on your iPod. New startup, ATO, will come out with a sleeve with a built-in LCD (liquid crystal display) screen that slips around Apple Computer's iPod — whether it's a video iPod or not — and turns it into a portable high-definition video player. The HD player will sell for between US$199 and US$250. The initial players will be able to handle MPEG 4, Divx, HD.264 and other video formats. The battery on the device will last about five hours."

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  1. Re:Interesting concept by slimjim8094 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now that I've read the comment (sorry) I'd like to answer my questions:
    It does play video off a second partition-like thing, and through the dock connector. It doesn't have it's own drive.

    Still, how do they define Hi-Def? Does Hi-Def really matter at such small resolutions?

    I thought it was interesting that they are marketing it as a no-DRM device. I want to see how this works out, and will likely purchase one for my 4G, if it looks like it works...

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  2. What? No Shuffle version? by jpellino · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Blast!

    Seriously, if they could do it with a nano...
    But their chart shows that only the 2 and 4 gig nanos work, so 1 gig must be too little
    Oddly, no 60 gig ipods are compatible.

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