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Here are some other opinions on the iPod Photo (and Video) from around the web…

Playlist Magazine has a short review on the iPod Photo. It looks really nice.

Michael Gartenberg talks why there isn't currently a video iPod. He says:

It's because unlike music, it's illegal to rip a DVD to your hard drive, Pixar or otherwise. Simple. No same company wants to get into that legal issue with the studios and provide those tools. Not Apple. Not Microsoft. In fact, the reason MediaCenter Extenders won't stream DVDs from your MCE to the device is that in order to do so they need to be decrypted to send the stream. That's illegal too. Should it be? Of course not, but at the moment, it is.

Good point! He goes on to say:

Now there's always personal created video but the market for that is tiny… really, really tiny. Call me and I'll show you how small those numbers are. There's a reason we call them consumers, as they consume content and not create it. There's no market for the video iPod for Apple's customers at the moment.

Hit the nail right on the head. How many people would want to make movies in iMovie and then sync them to their iPod? Some, but not many.

So why is Microsoft pushing the Portable Media Centers? Well… they have the "sources of content" (as Michael put it), with the Media Center PCs that can record TV. What else can you play on one of these? Not much, probably. Maybe the reason for this push is that Microsoft is making an online video store, which would tie into these machines (and the Media Center PCs). If this were to happen, it wouldn't be a good sign for Apple.

Tech Goes Boom links to the Michael Gartenberg post, and talks about how Apple could get around the ripping of DVDs.

mitsakos at MacGenie suggests that music videos would be some content that could be used on video iPods. He has a point, but who'd want to sit, watching a music video, when they could just as easily listen to the music itself? There's only so many music videos you can watch, too. Movies would be much more interesting.

John Gruber writes about the whole iPod situation. He also absolutely slams Paul Thurrott for his predictions in the past:

Thus, judging by nothing other than Thurrott's perfect 0.000 batting average with regard to all things iPod, Apple's latest additions to the iPod line-up will sell through the roof.

Ouch.