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Robert X. Cringley, author and technology writer for PBS, speculates that the Mac mini and Apple’s forthcoming H.264 video codec will be key elements in an Apple movie download service. “It is simple to say that Apple hopes to repeat with video the success it already has with iPod and iTunes. Jobs denies interest in video, citing the dominance of cable companies, but then he always denies right up until the moment he changes his mind, and that moment is coming…

Robert X. Cringley, author and technology writer for PBS, says Apple will introduce cheaper iPods as well as a video iPod in his predictions for 2004. Cringley says the cheaper iPods will use flash memory instead of a hard drive (mirroring recent reports), and that we should expect a video iPod by next Christmas, which will essentially be “a hard drive with a dedicated DV encoder/decoder and a FireWire interface.