Steve Jobs (And if none of you know who he is, he is the CEO and creator of Apple Computer) does not want anybody to refer to the new iPod as "iPod Video" or "Video iPod". He has, for the past several months, denounced that there would be a Video iPod, and he was right. We got a new iPod with video capibilities, not an "iPod Video" or "Video iPod".
This new iPod can hold over 7,000 songs, 25,000 photos, and 170 hours of video. Many people have been getting other types of MP3 players that play video, but none of them have the design and simplicity as the iPod. Also, you are not paying anymore than what you paid for the older iPods.
In order to play the videos and to buy them, you need Apple's free iTunes. iTunes is a great music program and one of the cheapest on the web (not refering to Peer to Peer). Currently, music videos, Pixar shorts (Apple CEO Steve Jobs bought the Pixar technology from George Lucas years ago), video Podcasts, and TV Shows are available for download onto your new iPod. Apple is partnered with Disney and ABC. Currently, only Disney and ABC TV shows are on the new iTunes. Apple is conferencing with NBC Universal about getting some of their TV shows onto the new iTunes and into your hands.
EDIT: To awnser one question, you do not have to buy videos off of iTunes. You can rip a DVD you own and put it onto your iPod. I have ripped Jurassic Park and I am going to see if I can put it on mine.
Apple also announced their new iMac computer. I encourage everybody to check it out over here:
www.apple.com/imac/. This computer proves that you only need one cable to have an awesome computer.
Currently, Apple is on the lookout for a group of people who are coming into an Apple store in Canada to buy an iPod, open it up in front of the cashier, and to destroy it.
Apple will be holding a press confrence at the PhotoPlus Expo 2005 to unveil their latest professional innovations. No new iPod will be announced (I can confirm that.) but a proffesional line of computers or software will be updated.
www.apple.com