AppleInsider has some speculation about the rumored 4th generation iPod, including possible video playback functions that may not work exactly as you’d expect. Although a color screen is possible (and, really, it’s time), the new video features may not come from the iPod directly, but instead from an upgraded dock, which would use the iPod as dumb storage and stream the content to another display device. According to their sources, the 4th-gen iPod will “obtain its media content via the unreleased Home on iPod” feature which should be on the upcoming OSX 10.4 ‘Tiger,’ but I don’t see exactly how those two things connect (‘Home on iPod’ is a method for keeping a Mac user’s home directory on the iPod, which could be a method for syncing up the iPod content, but I can’t imagine it would be required).
Of course, a video iPod is today’s minor Apple news, now that we’ve heard about Apple’s research into optical cheese.
