Video iPod by next week?

[Locke]

iPod Video

I'll be saving up for this one.

One more thing....

[Fsiphskilm]

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[shooraijin]

Myself, Locke, I doubt it.

[Arnobius]

Am I the only person who doesn't need 20gb for an overpriced mp3 player?

[glitch1501]

if it had the psp screen then yes....

[Fsiphskilm]

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[Locke]

Well the video one IS going to have a bigger screen than other iPods...

oooh Gizmondo, love those guys, them and Lifehacker.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

volt... what does "new ipods ever 6 months" have to do with anything? I have a monochrome 4th gen 20 gig Ipod... i'm happy with that... im not gonna get a new one everytime... you don't always have to have "the best most recent" technology

[Fsiphskilm]

I cannot ba

[Mr. SmartyPants]

my friend has a minidisc player XD it's quite interesting, but according to him it died out very quickly

[Locke]

I have one of those too, but it broke.

[Fireproof]

The video iPod is out! A 30 Gig one costs $300, and a 60 gig one costs $400. iTunes now has episodes of TV shows in the music store for two bucks. This looks so awesome. They put episodes from selected series in the store a day after they air. Currently, they have a plethora of shorts by Pixar, Desperate Housewives (Yuck!), Lost, the new Nightstalker, and Suite Life of Zach and Kody and That's So Raven for the kids. They also have a crapload of music videos.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

Email I got:

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 03:24:00 UT, Apple <News@insideapple.apple.com> wrote:

What's in Store
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15,000 songs. 25,000 photos. 150 hours of video. The new iPod

Enjoy music, music videos, and more on the new, slimmer iPod. Starting at just $299.* Buy now.



Music.
Sync, store, and hear up to 15,000 songs, complete with full-color album art.


Podcasts.
Take your favorite radio and talk shows on the road with audio and video podcasts.


Photos.
View up to 25,000 photos and play slideshows with music on your iPod or on TV.


Video.
Watch music videos or your favorite TV shows on the brilliant 2.5-inch color display.
Promos

iTunes 6. Your music, now with video.
Download hit TV shows and music videos from the iTunes Music Store for just $1.99 each. Watch them on your PC or Mac—or take them to go on the new iPod. Read and write customer reviews. Buy and send any song on iTunes as a gift. Get The Complete Stevie Wonder digital box set.**
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[blkmage]

I have a minidisc player too. I got it back when MP3 players either had not enough capacity or were too expensive. Mine runs on one AA battery for months. The only thing that I really, really hate about it is having to reencode to ATRAC. I don't even mind having to use discs, because minidiscs are so pretty looking.

[shooraijin]

I'm not impressed with the video iPod. This has been done before, possibly not as well, but it doesn't seem an evolutionary leap.

I *am* impressed that Apple managed to get a nice content deal with ABC, and that might translate into Disney dibs also.

What I am not bowled over by is the fact it does not offer any significant improvement, evolutionary or otherwise, over other video players. Where I think it could have shined would have been a la the iPod Photo, allowing you to plug it into a TV and play your movie there. Particularly for high bit rate, you could have a portable MPEG-2 video jukebox or something that fits in your pocket, and even at low bit rates, it beats squinting over the screen (which I must admit *is* significantly better than the competition).

On the whole, I don't see this setting the world on fire. I do see the movie studios hyperventilating, though.

[truthgone12]

One word: PSP

[Shao Feng-Li]

Ugh... I'm just happy with my Creative 128 mp3 palyer that I got for $70.

[Locke]

I'm not impressed with the video iPod. This has been done before, possibly not as well, but it doesn't seem an evolutionary leap.

I *am* impressed that Apple managed to get a nice content deal with ABC, and that might translate into Disney dibs also.

What I am not bowled over by is the fact it does not offer any significant improvement, evolutionary or otherwise, over other video players. Where I think it could have shined would have been a la the iPod Photo, allowing you to plug it into a TV and play your movie there. Particularly for high bit rate, you could have a portable MPEG-2 video jukebox or something that fits in your pocket, and even at low bit rates, it beats squinting over the screen (which I must admit *is* significantly better than the competition).

On the whole, I don't see this setting the world on fire. I do see the movie studios hyperventilating, though.

Apple got Disney and Pixar to make up, now that is what is something. Actually, what I like it choosing what episodes of Lost I want, so if I missed an ep, I can just buy it for 2 bucks. Not a good deal, but a deal notherless.

For videos, yeah a PSP's screen is incredible for them (Can you say wide screen format?)

[Mr. SmartyPants]

One word: PSP

that's not... really a word O.o

*housed*

[Locke]

that's not... really a word O.o

*housed*

Accronime'd!

[shooraijin]

Well, I stand totally corrected. Mega-corrected, even.

On http://www.apple.com/ipod/ipod.html , Apple says, "Plays video or photo slideshows on TV via the optional Dock." Now I *am* impressed. Get a high-bit-rate MPEG-4 video file on there, and you could have a portable video jukebox.

[Fireproof]

Booyeah! I bought mine a while ago, and I'm loving it. Just a pain in the keister to convert video for it.