iPod Video? Proofs may come from South Africa

An Apple web page that was readable for few hours (and now is offline) may prove that an iPod Video is imminent.
di Redazione
( 7-10-2005 )

During past night, between thursday and friday (CET), one of Apple's localized websites has shown for few hours a trace of the things to come next wednesday, when Apple will announce "one more thing"
During past months there were a lot of rumors about video functions in iPod and a lot of denying by Steve Jobs and other executives at Cupertino about a product like that.

Those could be misleadings, but the iPod Video (yes, "V" and not "v" for Video and this maybe related only to a simple mistake) seems to be a real product.
Video Ads are ready right now on Cupertino servers, when someone will press "enter" button they will be online, probably it will happen few seconds after Steve Jobs presentation in California (and live sat tv feed in London for European press).

A link was active that night and it was related to South African Apple website. The URL www.apple.com/za/itunes/video (now offline, or re-directing to this iTunes page) shown two ad movies about iPod Video.

It's not so important to know that Apple created some new silhouette ads (two sizes, 8,1 MB and 23 MB), but this is the confirmation that iPod Video is real and it will work with iTunes, so "iTunes + iPod Video"...

If you take this image as the final draft for the iPod Video to come (but it seems impossible due to the strict controlo on Apple's new products) and you watch through a magnifier lens you can suppose that the iPod Video will be: white (at least), it will be small but not so small because it seems to be bigger than the dancing rasta (?) silhouette hand, it will be a vertical style iPod (as usual) and it will have a display but smaller than the half size of the longest side. A
Superfuous to say it will be Mac and PC compatible.
The movies, also on the online period of that page, were not available to download and they still continue to be unavailable now.

Just a misleading or a trace of things to come?