Download Videos On Your iPod

Looks like almost everyone is watching TV shows and videos on their iPod nowadays. In fact, if that person is a real gadget geek, he or she is probably watching them on their new iPhone! Whatever the device, it is now becoming increasingly easy to download and watch movies on your iPod or iPhone.
Though it started out as a sleek, sophisticated music player that people simply fell in love with, the iPod has now made way for newer models that not just play music but movies and all kinds of videos. Of course, the small display screen can never give you the same viewing pleasure as the big screen can. But imagine when you are out in the morning, exercising in the gym and want to catch up on some episodes of an old TV show. What could be better than to just download the video to your iPod and watch it as your work out. Similarly, you may have to spend hours commuting to work everyday in your car or a train. Download a few videos or a movie that you can watch during your trip and you will not know how the time passed by.

Here are a few tips that will help you help you download and view movies at your convenience:

• Most of the new iPods have a fairly large storage capacity, nearly 30 GB to 80 GB. This is equivalent to about a hundred hours of video. You can thus imagine how many movies and music you can easily store in your iPod for your viewing and listening pleasure. Of course, bear in mind that playing videos can put your battery under extra pressure and you might run out of battery at the end of playing a two-hour video clip.
• The most popular place to access videos and music that can be played on an iPod is without doubt iTunes. You can find various TV shows, movies, videos and music that can be downloaded easily and played on your iPod. If you have missed an episode of your favorite TV show, just pay $1.99 and download it on to your iPod. Or perhaps you are in the mood for an entire season of ‘Friends’ – just pay up and download all the shows to watch when you like.
• You may also find many other entertaining and interesting videos for iPods by simply searching for them. Of course, many of them may just be home-made videos or music videos put up by budding artists. However, once in a while you may chance across something that really grabs your attention.
• When you download a movie or video, it may not always play on your iPod. You will therefore need to know a bit about video converters and how to convert the downloaded file into a format that can by played on the iPod. Thankfully, iTunes itself is a good converting tool. Just select the file you would like to convert, right-click on it and the select ‘Convert Selection for iPod’. This will convert the file to an MP4 format that can be played on an iPod.