High-Definition Video Add-on Coming to iPod

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."

Comments

History repeats? (Obligatory)

[Anonymous Coward]

Still no wireless. Less battery life than a PSP. Lame.

Alot of iPods

[bigtimepie]

So how many different kinds of iPods are there, now?

Re:Morning Commute

[crnbrdeater]

Very interesting/informative except it does nothing toward being funny. How in the world do you expect my post to reach +5 funny.

Seriously though interesting post.

Re:Yay!

[mgblst]

This isn't produced by Apple, chuckles, best read the article again!

Re:What?

[mrcolj]

When I read through today's top stories on Slashdot, I really thought they were all pranks: - HD Video coming to an iPod (ignoring the complete lack of demand for such.) - Proposal to Update the Electoral College (which turns out to be a ridiculous article about a ridiculous and unresearched book about how the only solution to the Electoral College "problem" is for everyone to agree not to use it.) - Investing tips for college students (which is totally outside the realm of slashdotters. It's just a bunch of financial illiterates ranting on how everything is a scam.) - United States Cedes Control of the internet (which makes no sense to anyone. I mean, good for them, but why in the world would they give it away? It would be like "California gives Hollywood to Bollywood to be fair.") - Kazaa agrees to pay $100M to the MPAA. (Yeah, right. And since when do they have 100M; since when are they not going out of business; since when does anyone care whether they go legit when no legit downloading service has ever made a dime, except itunes, which did it through their standard brand of "marketing", which means invoking Apple's religionists to pay tithing. This is a token fine that everyone knows no one is expected to pay a cent toward. My money says there's an arbitration contract which overrules the fine secretly--that's how it's done, folks.)