So, uh… Who’s going to buy me this?

The latest I, Cringely has this interesting little morsel:
There’s an outfit called DVDstation that puts video distribution kiosks in stores and malls. As its name implies, you go to the DVDstation to pick out a movie and burn it on a DVD right there. Well, DVDstation just announced that you can plug your video-enabled iPod [...]

This guy takes a look at the video available from iTMS.
At regular size and even in the little window embedded in iTunes, it looks crystal clear, with no noticeable or distracting artifacts even in fast moving scenes with lots of action. At double normal size, you will start seeing a few artifacts, comparable to the [...]

Well, I was wrong - Apple announced the long-awaited video iPod. I ordered a black 30gb today, and it should be here soon. I’m glad I waited instead of buying the iPod Nano. I will report back when I have it in hand.
Questions which remain unanswered:

Will it play DivX/XviD files as-is, or will they have [...]

So, I’ve been looking for a DVD player that plays MPEG-4 (XviD, DiVX etc) for a while now. I almost bought the Philips DVP-642 a while back, but I decided against it. I wanted something bulletproof, and it has problems with files encoded with QPEL and/or GMC. This was not what I wanted.
Yesterday, though, I [...]