Yankee Group's Carl Howe offers another likely reason for 5-G iPod-rental incompatibility. "I guess it would just be too much of a risk for Apple (and the movie studios) to allow 5-G customers (to) connect their iPods to a TV via an open TV-out cable so that the (standard-definition) content could then be captured using the analog hole," Warren concludes in a recent post. In the most recent iPod classic and iPods nano models, the TV-out port no longer works with older, third-party video cables and docks - most likely in order to close the analog hole, according to The Unofficial Apple Weblog's Christina Warren. As some have observed, this theoretically makes it easier to copy rented movies, by plugging the iPod into a camcorder or other video-recording device. Previous generation iPods have an analog video output that works with standard video cables. Some analysts, like Forrester's James McQuivey, say the issue could be related to digital rights management or a planned obsolescence strategy - encouraging people to buy the most current generation iPods.įor now, the most likely suspect has to do with what some have deemed the "analog hole" present in 5-G iPods.
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