Apple release video iPod - World shrugs?

Is it just me, or is the new iPod really not that exciting? Apple are trying to make it sound exciting, yes, but a large part of me (the part that would usually be reaching for the credit card about now) really couldn't care less. Are the magic reserves starting to run a little dry at Apple?

For a start, the drive sizes aren't anything terribly excited. I've got a 40gig 4th generation iPod at the moment, and moving from 40 to 60 isn't a terribly compelling reason to upgrade. Where's the 80gig drive that we know Toshiba have in production?

Then, there's the video. Is that supposed to make me want to upgrade? So I can watch a handful of pretty crappy short films from Pixar? If you live outside of the US, there's no "Desperate Housewives" episodes, or "Lost" to download, so your (increasingly inaccurately named) "iTunes Music Store" video content boils down to some low res music videos and some Pixar cartoons. Yeah, I could encode my own video from various sources, but I can already do that, and in a far higher resolution I might add, and on a far superior screen with my £179 PSP. Apple are supposed to be about elegant solutions.

So let's see if any of the other features can convince me - the size: not interested, a bigger, more colourful screen: nope, TV output: still nothing. I really don't care. I don't even care about the "me too" media centre application (Front Row), or the new, slimline iMac.

After all the hype, this is a big let down for me. A nice 80gig iPod, with that shiny new screen and video playback, which supported wma, wmv, and ogg vorbis, would have set me back £300; I'd have been powerless to resist. As it is, I think I'll wait for the next "one more thing".

(Besides, I've just checked iTunes, and my mp3 collection currently stands at 62gb so I'm going to have to wait for that 80gig device!)