This makes sense, but it means that, unlike its closest competitors, the Mini can't play video in high definition.

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But the video iPod couldn't easily play the shows on a TV set, and by early 2006 Apple designers were working on prototypes of a box that could: iTV.

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They don't want to listen to coaches this time of year, they don't want to look at video, they want to play the game and find out where they're at.

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And once the download was complete, we couldn't get the file to play, even after trying several different video players for the PC.

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Since it requires additional software and doesn't just play in the browser, a lot of the convenience of other video sharing sites is lost, and as traffic increases Zudeo will need to rely on its own customers to continue to seed downloaded files.

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But here's the real rub: standard, first-generation DVD-video players--the ones on store shelves today--won't play Divx discs.

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