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The sordid recent history of Blockbuster video.

A nice overview of H.264 video. Notice the half dozen makers of hardware decoder chips, any of which would be fine in an iPod that was expected to operate mainly while docked, rather than on battery power.

Your current video iPod won't do, since its native resolution is too low. Nice try though.

Apple has to move quickly, though, because the download market is already getting crowded. Here's Disney's MovieBeam, which uses spare digital TV bandwidth from PBS stations. As a Disney director now Jobs will either try to take this over or kill it.

With an 82 percent market share, Apple's hope has to be to grow the iPod market overall, rather than increasing share.