Arik Hesseldahl of Forbes says a video iPod tops his 2005 tech wish list. “Apple is halfway there with the iPod photo. And Microsoft and its many hardware pals, including Creative Labs, have proven that video can be done in a handheld device–though they’ve yet to prove it can be done well. Apple, more than any other company, is up to the task of perfecting this. The experience shouldn’t be about watching video on a tiny handheld screen. What I do want is to output video from the iPod to a TV. An 80-gigabyte hard drive would make it practical. Additionally, I’d like to be able to buy or subscribe to TV shows that I often miss through an iTunes-like service that lets me watch them on my PC or Mac, or save them to an iPod that allows me to watch them on any TV.”
