gundam91
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OK, my resistance towards buying a portable player has finally worn down.
I managed to travel about 50% of the time last year for work. (That's 6 months away from home of the entire year. Trust me, it's a lot of time on the road.) I was living off my Sony Clie "palm pilot" which has the ability to play 128 bit rate MP3s, but I think it's time to buy a real player.
Based on SQ along, my choice wold be the Cowon iAudio X5. But I'm curious if people are watching movies on their portable players as well? If so, should I look at another player instead? And how would you transfer movies from DVDs to your player of choice? Can this be done? Or do people just go somewhere online to download videos? (Sorry, I'm a little behind the times when it comes to the latest trends/technologies)
My second big question is what size hard-drive are people buying? Do I really need a 60gb player? I did a quick calculation, and 30gb would allow me to hold like 500 CDs in lossless format (which I intend to use, I am assuming avg of 5mb per song, and 12 songs per CD). I'm not planning to "live off" the player, but just using it to kill time when traveling, like when sitting at an airport waiting. I guess if I can download DVDs, 60gb would allow me to have all the music, video, and photos I want on the player. But for music along, would a 20gb or 30gb be sufficient?
Based on SQ along, my choice wold be the Cowon iAudio X5. But I'm curious if people are watching movies on their portable players as well? If so, should I look at another player instead? And how would you transfer movies from DVDs to your player of choice? Can this be done? Or do people just go somewhere online to download videos? (Sorry, I'm a little behind the times when it comes to the latest trends/technologies)
My second big question is what size hard-drive are people buying? Do I really need a 60gb player? I did a quick calculation, and 30gb would allow me to hold like 500 CDs in lossless format (which I intend to use, I am assuming avg of 5mb per song, and 12 songs per CD). I'm not planning to "live off" the player, but just using it to kill time when traveling, like when sitting at an airport waiting. I guess if I can download DVDs, 60gb would allow me to have all the music, video, and photos I want on the player. But for music along, would a 20gb or 30gb be sufficient?