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[pulsarman]

Was wondering if you can transfer pics off your digital camera directly onto your IPOD or would you have to use a computer. This could prove to be very useful when travelling. Please advise. Thanks,

[jaebea]

Yeah, this is potentially one of the coolest bits with the iPod.

As far as I know, you can only do it with the full flavoured iPods, the mini doesn't have any hardware to do the conversion.

Belkin offers two devices which will do the trick.

http://www.belkin.com

One is a memory card reader, the other is a USB plug so you can put the camera right into the iPod via the adapter.

jae.

[jazblanc77]

Forget about Ipods. There are a number of "Ipod killers" on the market right now, named as such because they are so much better than ipods. They have this option and a lot more.

Look at:

www.datamind.co.uk
www.bestbuy.com

just to start with.

I'd say the best players out there right now are by the two companies I have linked you to above, Archos and Iriver. They have the best all-in-one options (you don't have to buy a bunch of expensive little add-ons to be able to fully utilise the functions of the player as with the Ipods), no Copywrite Protection Systems, and both, the standard internal Li-ion batteries and a removable external (a very very important option unless you want a very expensive paper wieght after only 18 months - as with the Ipods).[/url]

[Demophobe]

Good call Jaz...

My buddy bought a 40GB I-pod like device for 300,000...holds any kind of file and has ports for all kinds of flash memory devices and it's USB2.0. MP3's picures, movies...anything.

I can't remember what it was called, but www.danawa.co.kr will have it.

[klaasb]

ipod killers?

Is that possible?

I just bought a bunch of songs from the ITMS, will they run on the ipod killers? I don't think so......

Yes, I am a apple addict.

[jazblanc77]

[pulsarman]

Thanks for all your help. I think I will be reconsidering on the IPOD. I want something a little cheaper that takes MP3s, listening to books, and picture files. Preferably a device that can take pictures directly from my digi. Any further brands that you can recommend? IPODs seem way too over priced and limited.

Not in a huge hurry either as I am leaving for my trip in about 3 months. I wanted to say thanks again for all the advice. It's proven very useful!


Craig

[peppermint]

At the moment, I've got a ton of mp3s, four movies and a months worth of German audio lessons on my iRiver.
Oh, and the latest software has a nice little study setting so I can "rewind" through part of the lesson without needing to sit through the whole thing again.

[jazblanc77]

I am personally keeping my eye on the iRiver PMP100 series and the upcoming Archos AV500 series. I will be buying from one of these lines in December once the AV500 is released and, presumably, the higher capacity PMP100's will be coming out.

As far as I can tell, these two lines are very similar in that both have good movie and music codec compatibility, both have fm and analog audio-in recording capabilities, both have removable external batteries, both have USB-on-the-go (to plug your digi-cam directly into them).

I am not looking at buying the PMP120 as of yet because I feel that 20 gb is just too small for a player that has video playback capabilities. Once you put your mp3's, book files and text files, pictures, and whatever else (these players can also act as mass storage devices ie. external harddrives), there won't be much room left on the drive for movies. As far as I can tell, the PMP120 aslo can't record video from an out-source. They also use an iRiver OS, which, if it is anything like the H340 series, is nothing to get excited about. I am waiting to see if they will improve upon these three areas by the end of the year.

The Archos AV500 series on the other hand, will have all of the functions which the iRiver is lacking though, it has not yet been released. It is slated to be coming out by the end of this year (I figure, around the x-mas shopping season). The only major downer for the AV500 is that they may only be releasing the 20 gb model initially and it is likely that it will follow in the footsteps of the AV400 series in recognising Macrovision (hardwired DVD copy protection). This is no problem if you are ripping DVD's on your computer and then putting them onto your player, however, the player won't be able to record from newer, industry standard DVD players.

There are plenty of other harddrive players out there but, make sure you do your research before buying anything. I have been looking for three months now and have salivated over iPods, Creative players, iRivers, and Archos'. In the order I listed them, I would also rank them from worst to best. Anyways, do your own comparative shopping and buy what's best for you.

[Keepongoing]

I just bought a 40 gig Ipod and apparently the new ones have 12 hour batteries. It is expensive and I love it thus far! You can treat it as a hard disk and drag any file into it. The new ones have 12 hour batteries

[peppermint]

That's fine, but the iRiver I bought back in April has 16 hour batteries.

[mindmetoo]

[ulsanchris]

[jazblanc77]

Lots of the new players have internal Li-ion batteries with detachable external batteries as well. Players chew through AA batteries like dirt so I wouldn't even consider one with the ability to use them an option. External removable batteries are the way to go. iRiver, Archos, and a few others have caught on to this option.

[ulsanchris]

I have an MD player with an AA rechargeable battery. It lasts around 46 hours. When I went travelling I never had to worry about charging my batteries. AAs are cheap and when they last 46 hours . . . no worries.

With the other kind of batteries you have to worry about power cords for each country you go through. IF your battery dies on you, your screwed for music until you can charge up your battery. With mine if my rechargeable dies I can go to the corner store and pick up a couple of AAs for less then a couple of bucks. (this is also one of the reasons I bought a Canon Powershot A70).

being limited to using only special rechargeable batteries sucks.