Video iPod's killer app: porn

Tim Goodman, the TV critic for the local paper and one of the few smart, good writers they have left, is absolutely right about the "video iPod":

The new iPod-as-TV seems, on the one hand, stupid, and, on the other, pointless. Are we to believe that people who have lusted after big-screen TV sets for the past eight years or so are going to give that up just to watch what amounts to a thumb-nail sketch of "Lost"?

Please. There are early adopters and there are the easily led. They are not always the same people.

Besides, it's clear that the killer app for the iPod-as-TV is porn. Once the minxes can be downloaded at iTunes, you've got yourself Daddy's new Christmas present.

The prospect of the same losers owning exactly two televisions -- one six feet wide, the other three inches -- suggests it's a good time to be an optometrist.