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Reason #31256 why the video iPod is doomed

I'm playing Mr. Mom today while my wife is at the doctor's (all the cool bloggers are doing it), and our son is dancing away to Louis Prima's "I wanna be like you" from The Jungle Book. He dances to the music on tv shows, too, but when there's music playing, he runs around the house and plays with toys, too. Something he doesn't do when the tv's on.
A video iPod has the same limitations on attention span as the tv does. There's just not much else a person can be doing at the same time that a tv is on compared to what they can do if a radio or CD is playing. Paying twice as much for a product twice the size that has features that can't be used 90% of the time is NOT the way to take down the iPod.