You'd be surprised with battery life now. I recently bought a 20GB Cowon iAudio X5L (http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000330040234) that has 35 hours of music playback. For me that has translated to between 10 and 15 hours of video playback. The X5 model (with comparable battery life to a 20GB iPod) has had reported video playback times ranging from 4 to 6 hours (which IMHO isn't that bad).
I agree completely that RCA jacks would be nice. It's the one thing I wish the iAudio had.
I'd also be surprised if this new iPod didn't eventually support mpeg4 xvid as the iAudio already supports it at 15fps (not bad for the screen size). One thing I would worry about is all the DRM apple is going to slap on the video files. Hopefully vPod will support video files that aren't bought on iTunes.
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You'd be surprised with battery life now. I recently bought a 20GB Cowon iAudio X5L (http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000330040234) that has 35 hours of music playback. For me that has translated to between 10 and 15 hours of video playback. The X5 model (with comparable battery life to a 20GB iPod) has had reported video playback times ranging from 4 to 6 hours (which IMHO isn't that bad).
I agree completely that RCA jacks would be nice. It's the one thing I wish the iAudio had.
I'd also be surprised if this new iPod didn't eventually support mpeg4 xvid as the iAudio already supports it at 15fps (not bad for the screen size). One thing I would worry about is all the DRM apple is going to slap on the video files. Hopefully vPod will support video files that aren't bought on iTunes.