Geeks at large were all abuzz over what Apple’s announcement yesterday at a “special event” would be. The longshot prediction suggested an iPod cell phone, but the conventional wisdom turned out to be right.

As this C|Net story reports, and almost everyone who follows this stuff expected, it’s iTV, iTunes 7 (new and improved with some studio deals to facilitate movie downloading) plus bright shiny 80GB iPods to hold a summer’s worth of big-screen blockbusters or a coupla seasons of 24.

Now, if you could dump a Netflix movie into your iTunes library as easily (and cost-free) as you dump a CD worth of songs, it might almost make being a railway commuter the preferred way to get to work. Almost.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 13th, 2006 at 7:35 am and is filed under This 'n' That.