A recently formed US firm has announced its intention to begin selling video iPods that come with a choice of DVDs preloaded.

TVMyPod says that the process will take approximately two hours to convert one feature length film, and will save users the need to transfer files to the iTunes format.

The customer chooses both the model of iPod and the films or TV shows desired, and the iPod is then shipped together with the original DVDs.

TVMyPod’s founder, Vijay Raghavan, insists that this fact ensures the process does not fall foul of US Copyright law, which prohibits selling devices that include technology designed to prevent material from being copied.

He also told Reuters that the company did not decrypt DVDs.

Prices will be decided when the next lot of offerings are rolled out, but are likely to include the cost of sending an iPod and a subscription service.

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