iPods not playing iTune Movies

A number of iPod owners have discovered that their recently purchased iPods won't work with Apple's new iTunes video rentals, even though the iPods have video playback capabilities.

Some analysts, like Forrester's James McQuivey, say the issue could be related to digital rights management or a planned obsolescence strategy -- encouraging people to buy the most current generation iPods.

For now, the most likely suspect has to do with what some have deemed the "analog hole" present in 5-G iPods. Previous generation iPods have an analog video output that works with standard video cables. As some have observed, this theoretically makes it easier to copy rented movies, by plugging the iPod into a camcorder or other video-recording device.