The folks at Tivo are wise for stepping up here, but I’d move quickly. A few thoughts, however. For one, Guba, with a graphical interface to Usenet, already has the mechanism to download videos directly to the iPod. The conversion to the MPEG-4 format is done in the background. In addition, Veoh now has the ability for folks to put videos on their iPod. What’s cool about Veoh is that you can set an RSS feed (manually) in your iTunes to grab the videos as they come into your Veoh player. Very smooth.

In the interim, while Tivo works on its plan, others in addition to Veoh—probably Blinkx, for one—will come up with the method to put its video feeds on the iPod. Stay tuned.

BTW, all of the sudden MPEG-4 is hot. Maybe, just maybe, this will force all of the companies that produce video editing software to support MEPG-4.