Today, It Decided To Stop Playing Videos.

Strange thing happened today -- my 5G iPod, which had been happily and unfussily playing various video files since I got it, including yesterday, today refuses to do so. I select a video file, hit Play, the drive whirrs up, the screen goes video-dark (as in if you tilt it you see the blue), but nothing. You hit the center button to see if scrubbing helps, and it reads 00:00 --- 00:00, even while it's supposed to be playing (not paused). Music videos from the Store, episodes of "Lost", MPEG-4 files I'd uploaded to it, all of which were playing fine and dandy yesterday -- nothing works.
I reset it, reset it again, nothing. Then suddenly one video started to play, and then it froze. Reset again, nothing. Finally reformatted and updated and reloaded from scratch, and STILL nothing.
Meanwhile, all the music and photos are just fine and dandy, and the video files play fine in iTunes. Sounds like the video chip is on Thanksgiving break!
I haven't done anything to this iPod so far (usually by now I should have dropped it at least once, but nope, not yet). Just in my pocket in its little sleeve, not particularly jostled, not even scratched.
It is now going to the local Apple distributor/repair shop, but I thought I'd start a thread on this in case it happens to anyone else.
5G iPod 30GB     its name is Harry.

sounds like a hardware prob...I would go to get it serviced

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