[Michael1980]

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Originally Posted by chrisfromalbany allofmp3vids.com I can see spending $.15 cents for a video. Now that is a price I can deal with.

Does this really exist? It does not work for me.

 

[irvin59]

The spec sheet says 20 eq settings, a few less than my mini-so much for the graphic equalizer.

http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html

 

[irvin59]

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Originally Posted by Michael1980 Does this really exist? It does not work for me.

Not yet.

 

[DRSpeed85]

Is the U2 version finally dead? If so, I guess it is finally a "limited" edition. Is it smaller than the 4g? It appears that the screen would make it wider, and im not sure if the click wheel shrank in size... I suppose its definitely thinner now.

 

[Edwood]

Video playback time: Up to 2 hours when fully charged


Yeah, I think I'll be sticking with my PSP for now. Well except I have to re-encode everything for it. At least I get a much much better LCD with the PSP's pitiful battery life.

There is an aftermarket hard drive/battery pack coming up soon for the PSP.

-Ed

 

[steel102]

is there still bass rolloff with low impedence phones?

 

[Michael1980]

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Originally Posted by irvin59 Not yet.

But the Russians are planning to steal movies as well? Is there a date?

 

[Wodgy]

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Originally Posted by Edwood H.264 support and the screen is still 4:3? One could hope the new video features are not crippled by DRM. I hope it does not require 320 x 240 native resolution for all videos. Otherwise I'd have to re-encode all my videos.

Video you put on it is not crippled by DRM. Video from the iTunes Store has FairPlay DRM.

H.264 must be encoded at 320x240 or lower, though there will undoubtedly be third-party utilities that will transcode existing video to that size if iTunes doesn't do it automatically. The home movies demo seems to suggest that iTunes can transcode, but it's hard to know for sure. MPEG4 (less computationally intensive) can be up to 480x480 before you need to transcode it.

 

[DRSpeed85]

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Originally Posted by Edwood Video playback time: Up to 2 hours when fully charged Yeah, I think I'll be sticking with my PSP for now. Well except I have to re-encode everything for it. At least I get a much much better LCD with the PSP's pitiful battery life. There is an aftermarket hard drive/battery pack coming up soon for the PSP. -Ed

Even the PSP is abit cramped for video imo. After watching spider 2, my eyes feel crossed. I cant even imagine watching video on an ipod or cellphone.

 

[irvin59]

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Originally Posted by Michael1980 But the Russians are planning to steal movies as well? Is there a date?

It's just a joke-when I saw vodcasts mentioned plus apples pricing of $2 a video, I couldn't help thinking of vodkasts. Still it'll probably happen-with a different name though-puns just don't translate-unless you've had a serious amount of vodka.

 

[kloan]

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Originally Posted by steel102 is there still bass rolloff with low impedence phones?

Looks like Apple finally got it right. No thanks to them for ignoring the Nano when they discovered the "gold standard".

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Apple told iLounge that the fifth-generation iPod features greatly enhanced audio recording and playback capabilities. The company said the new iPod sounds equally as good or better than the iPod shuffle, which Apple considers the gold standard in terms of sound quality.

 

[YngwieJMalmsteen]

Up until now they've always made the wheel and screen the same width, which gave the player symmetry or feng shui (I'll just pretend I understand feng shui), I think that's why the new player doesn't look right to me. Also I like the headphone jack directly in the middle.

 

[LFC_SL]

I don't mind a smaller click wheel

Eventually they can use this to advantage and have higher capacities or larger/higher quality screen

 

[Sebhelyesfarku]

still no gapless playback, parametric EQ. paperweight v5.

 

[LFC_SL]

Only Apple could "get away" with that ^ ?

Don't need to. Apple haven't lost enough sales to players that offer above to change