As more and more shows arrive I'd believe there'd be enough reason to buy an Apple device that is geared specifically for video and not so much for music. Meaning something you would have to hold with two hands and weighs a bit more than you'd tolerate with an music device. Of course, with a larger screen. Everyone can guess the device is coming from Apple as 12 millions downloads is nothing to sneeze at. The only thing the would put the icing on the cake would be a device that's hooked to a 3G network so we may download while on the bus, train, or plane instead of having to pre-pack the device before ones journey.

None of the currently available content really tickles me all that much. What I would REALLY like is stuff from TLC or Discovery. Mythbusters, and other educational and entertaining shows. It'd be great to have episodes of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition available perhaps with parts of the profits going to help fund more builds and more houses for deserving families. I'd also like to see stuff like American Chopper, Monster Garage and such. These are shows that would make it much more of an interest for me to buy video content as well as possibly an Apple media center device. Which i'll buy anyway but that's not the point.

There is a new product called iLoad out there that will allow one to record shows to an external firewire drive. Once the show is on the firewire drive, it could be plugged into your Macintosh of choice and the show could be converted for iPod delivery and synced to your iPod. This is a great way to save content from cable channels in digital format, and then utilize for iPod conversion and consumption without having to pay $2.95 or whatever for an episode of Lost, for example.

So why would someone want to buy that show from the iTunes Store?

iLoad apparently schedules the events for recording just like TIVO

Excuse me while this non-American sheds absolutely no tears for your predicament as we have zero content on offer to us at all...

I just wish Apple would hurry up and sort something out with the BBC here in the UK.