Apple bundles HD video with iPod-ready version

AppleInsider takes Apple to task for offering highly-compressed (though still High Definition) HD video through the iTunes Store:

A standard 720p file downloaded either through iTunes or an Apple TV consumes about 4Mbps of data, or just a tenth the total bit transfer rate of the optical format and a fifth of the nearly 20Mbps for over-the-air HDTV; even Xbox Video Marketplace video affords more, at 6.8Mbps.

So don’t throw that Blu-Ray player out the window just yet.

But there’s also some good news…