This is purely anecdotal evidence but pretty much everyday in New York I see people watching video on iPods.
Good point about iTunes but I would be reluctant to use iTunes sales figures to determine the distribution of media on the iPod. If you look at the total number of iPods sold and use that figure to calculate the total amount of memory in iPods sold, then you look at iTunes sales, you can reasonably conclude that a lot of the memory on iPods is being filled outside of the iTunes store.
Again, anecdotal evidence, but I have only known 2 people in my life who bought media from the iTunes store regularly. Everyone else I know gets their media elsewhere.
Right. And it's a huge pain to do video on an iPod unless it was purchased through iTunes (in which case it's dead simple but very expensive). Everything you find on BitTorrent or any other P2P source is in DivX or XviD, which it doesn't play. But any music is available in mp3 and does.
Hence I have to think that iTunes sales figures would greatly overrepresent the amount of video being watched, and they still put it at a paltry amount of overall media
Good point about iTunes but I would be reluctant to use iTunes sales figures to determine the distribution of media on the iPod. If you look at the total number of iPods sold and use that figure to calculate the total amount of memory in iPods sold, then you look at iTunes sales, you can reasonably conclude that a lot of the memory on iPods is being filled outside of the iTunes store.
Again, anecdotal evidence, but I have only known 2 people in my life who bought media from the iTunes store regularly. Everyone else I know gets their media elsewhere.