Speaking of a portable digital audio player, the one category of device that immediately jumps into your head space is a rectangular device by the name of the Apple iPod. Elegant and simple in appearance, yet very powerful to play the role of a device that makes music easy for millions. For the good of humanity, today the same device also has built-in technology to display videos. Now, that’s what a double bonanza means in all likelihood.

Apple’s iPod with video comes in 30 GB and 80 GB varieties in black and white color variants. With the help of iTunes software, an iPod user can download favorite music tracks and videos. To add to everything, there are facilities for free podcasting that one can enjoy at their leisure.

iPods with video are categorized as fifth-generation iPods (later 5.5 due to software and hardware improvements) and come with a larger screen, lyrics support, and music search functionality. In all of these upgraded versions, the mechanical scroll wheel replaces the flash memory touch-sensitive click wheel that scrolled hard drives in the previous sample. The red 4GB iPod nano with its 8GB sibling are two of the other varieties of video-enabled iPods on the market today.

Already seen with a bunch of upgrades, an Apple video iPod comes in perfect condition to work equally well with both Windows and Mac based programs. Today, a fifth-generation iPod plays videos in MP4 format (up to 2.5 Mbit /s) and H.264 (up to 1.5 Mbit/s, with Basic Profile only). Videos such as movies, TV shows, music videos can be purchased from online stores or downloaded from Google Video and other sources and then imported to iPod for immediate use.

Videos or photo slideshows can be played from the fifth-generation video iPod on a television, projector, or monitor using the Apple iPod AV cable, or through an iPod dock using an S-video cable.

Now, watch videos or listen to your favorite songs, in the form of an iPod, Apple is equipped to meet all needs. In fact, it is a sound vision device!