Steve Jobs on why not to bother with handheld video players

David Pogue, in his NY Times column reports here on an interview with Steve Jobs this week.

First, he said, on a video player, "there’s just no equivalent of headphones." That is, when you put on headphones and press Play on a music player, the results are spectacular-you get a very close equivalent to the concert-hall experience.

But watching video on a tiny three-inch hand-held screen is almost nothing like the experience of watching a movie in a theater or even on TV. It can’t approach the same realism or emotional impact.

Worth a read.