Youtube to offer downlods

Google announced today it is going to test downloadable videos on their site for veiwing offline on portable devices like the iPod and iPhone. This is great for being able to take videos with on a plane and other places where you can’t get Internet access. I really hope this will be successful and will encourage other video sites (like Hulu) to do the same. For now, Youtube is merely testing this and may actually charge for downloading videos that you could veiw on their site for free – and it’ll only be an option for a few of the sites professionally produced content. At least some will be downloadable and that is progress.