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Mashimaro
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 Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject: Buy new 80gig video ipod or wait for next generation? |
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Trying to decide whether to get the new 80 gig video Ipod
or wait for a 'true' video ipod? (with hopefully a bigger screen)
I do like the V43 as well, but the smaller hard drive is a drawback. |
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Thunndarr
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Depends. What do you figure your ratio of audio to video playback time would be? If you spend 90% of your time listening to music, I'd say buy it. However, if you're closer to 50/50, I'd say get something with a bigger screen. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject: Re: Buy new 80gig video ipod or wait for next generation? |
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| Mashimaro wrote: |
Trying to decide whether to get the new 80 gig video Ipod
or wait for a 'true' video ipod? (with hopefully a bigger screen)
I do like the V43 as well, but the smaller hard drive is a drawback. |
It's true that the 30GB V43 is small in comparison to the 80GB iPod but, I've always found 30GB enough. Even when I went on a 2 week vacation in June with my V43 I was able to put more than enough TV, movies and audio to last.
Does the iPod Video support .AVI (or DIVX files)? That's what the majority of downloadable video is. |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:36 am Post subject: |
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Agreed.
The iPod is restricted to playing only 1 format whereas the V43 (and all the other true media players) can play DIVX/MPG/AVI etc etc.
You will have to convert all your videos which is bloody tedious. |
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Soul Forest
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul Forest
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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If you get a program like iSquint (only for Macs), it's very easy and straightforward to convert whatever video you want to iPod format.
Also, if you get the program Handbrake from the same people, you can rip DVDs to iPod format, or even just rip selected chapters from those DVDs.
Both programs are free. |
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hepcat
Joined: 07 Mar 2005
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I find my 60 GB 5th gen. invaluable for backing up my music and photos. Just plug it in and it syncs. a 30 GB would be too small |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Soul Forest wrote: |
If you get a program like iSquint (only for Macs), it's very easy and straightforward to convert whatever video you want to iPod format.
Also, if you get the program Handbrake from the same people, you can rip DVDs to iPod format, or even just rip selected chapters from those DVDs.
Both programs are free. |
Free!! Wow! That sells it for me! 
Personally, I would never use a portable media player which would require a lengthy conversion process to play anything that was DIVX/AVI. Most video on the internet is in those formats. Anything thing I download I can transfer directly to my V43 from my PC. The transfer speed is roughly 1GB per minute. I can transfer a whole season of The Simpsons (24 episodes, over 4GB) in less than 5 minutes. No mess. No fuss.
Compare that to using a video iPod. I would need to plan ahead and spend a lot of time converting. I have a pretty fast PC but converting, for example, a DVD to a 1/4 sized .avi version takes almost 3 hours. If I had to do that for everything I download I would go nuts.
You must really, really want to buy Apple to put up with a Video iPod and its limitations. |
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re:cursive
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:48 am Post subject: |
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I wouldn't buy one.
It's a sexy looking device but I really am not the type of person who will outlay significant cash to watch visuals on a 2.5 inch screen. I'll be waiting for fully surrounded, stereoscopic goggles/glasses.
80 gig storage space would be nice but a small external hardrive would be a far better and less painful/time consuming option than the video iPod. I'm still struggling to just get my music stored correctly on a 60 gig iPod. Talk about a hassle. iPods are by no means the best option for portable data storage and the inbuilt limitations suck.
I used to be a believer. |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't you think newer versions of the ipod will have the capability to play more formats or are they doing that with PURPOSE? |
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rocklee
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:16 am Post subject: |
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| Don't you think newer versions of the ipod will have the capability to play more formats or are they doing that with PURPOSE? |
Apple had always tried to promote their own formats like QT, and borrowed technologies like AAC and MP4 with very little success. Who knows? It took them over 20 years to make a multi-button mouse so maybe sense might have caught up.
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| Don't you think newer versions of the ipod will have the capability to play more formats or are they doing that with PURPOSE? |
Apple had always tried to promote their own formats like QT, and borrowed technologies like AAC and MP4 with very little success. Who knows? It took them over 20 years to make a multi-button mouse so maybe sense might have caught up.
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Yes, there is a purpose. Ipod=Itunes. Itunes=Money. Apple doesn't want you downloading video off the internet for free. Therefore, they restrict the format you can use. |
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ac3
Joined: 14 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| Get the 80 gigger. With tech the wait can be ad infinitum. |
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Imbroglio
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:11 am Post subject: |
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Is there already a thread about the new iTV that Jobs just announced??
No power brick
802.11
USB2
Ehternet
HDMI connector for all new big-screen flat panel TVs
Component video (RGB)
analog audio RCA jacks
Optical audio
Controled with the familiar white remote
Hooks directly to your screen or to your set-top box as another input, or to your receiver. |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Imbroglio wrote: |
Is there already a thread about the new iTV that Jobs just announced??
No power brick
802.11
USB2
Ehternet
HDMI connector for all new big-screen flat panel TVs
Component video (RGB)
analog audio RCA jacks
Optical audio
Controled with the familiar white remote
Hooks directly to your screen or to your set-top box as another input, or to your receiver. |
- You mean this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV
- So its a box that connects to a TV, shouldn't the Mac mini do this anyway?
- Those overpriced 640x480 movies are going to look soooooo good stretched out on my 30" LCD.
- I heard it cost $300.  How much was that iHiFi again? |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Thunndarr wrote: |
| rocklee wrote: |
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| Don't you think newer versions of the ipod will have the capability to play more formats or are they doing that with PURPOSE? |
Apple had always tried to promote their own formats like QT, and borrowed technologies like AAC and MP4 with very little success. Who knows? It took them over 20 years to make a multi-button mouse so maybe sense might have caught up.
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Yes, there is a purpose. Ipod=Itunes. Itunes=Money. Apple doesn't want you downloading video off the internet for free. Therefore, they restrict the format you can use.[/quote]
Otherwise known as monopoly. |
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