Video Portable Devices Next Big Thing

New video players are challenging iPod's dominance in the portable media space.

The Guardian has an article outlining why portable video players will be the next big thing, surpassing iPod.  They even talk about “mPod”, or what the industry thinks will be iPod’s big video player brother.

“Conspicuous by its absence from the market is Apple itself. Industry speculation has centred on the prospect of an ‘mPod’, with rumours that designs drawn up last year were torn up amid doubts that video on the go will ever catch on. James Bernard, lead product manager for Microsoft Portable Media Centre, said: ‘Apple have said they don’t see a future in video. We see that as a mistake.’ “

We think video will be the next big thing as well.  Music has had such a huge impact on our lives, that the next logical step is video.  Video jumped from the living room to the car.  The next leap will be from the car to your hands.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1312883,00.html