Portland wrote:Meh, like the wifi, but 16GB won't do me for the main player. As for the nano, the video will be a feature for some, but the size increase is a big downside for many. 8GB tiny-ness was the whole point of the nano - making it bigger means it's more of a pain to lug around while running, riding, swimming, working out in other ways.
Lug? It has a 1% larger volume. It's the same thickness. It's a bit wider
and a bit shorter that's all.
I'm not sure why people worry about having their entire music collection on a single iPod. I've never had an iPod that'll contain all my music and there's never been a problem shuffling music around. It depends on your listening habits, obviously; I'm the sort that gets stuck in a groove and listening to the same or similar things over and over again before getting bitten by something completely different and wipe the lot. Small capacity storage with that kind of habit isn't a problem.
My only gripe with iPod capacity has ever been power, my first generation Nano being the worst culprit and seemingly has no longevity at all. Conversely the Shuffle is like a Duracell Bunny and tends to get most use because of it. Can't wait to touch my thing, the lead time in the UK Store means a wait until the beginning of October though...
Jimaroid wrote:I'm the sort that gets stuck in a groove and listening to the same or similar things over and over again before getting bitten by something completely different and wipe the lot. Small capacity storage with that kind of habit isn't a problem.
I'm exactly the same. I've only gone bigger with the A2 this time because I wanted to watch vids as well. I've got the same set of mp3s loaded on my new player that I did on my 4gig Samsung.
HGFB wrote:I'm exactly the same. I've only gone bigger with the A2 this time because I wanted to watch vids as well. I've got the same set of mp3s loaded on my new player that I did on my 4gig Samsung.
Video is the catch, my take on capacity could well be entirely different were I to be commuting on trains & planes regularly where I could actually watch videos. As it is for me, video demand is very much restricted for aeroplane journies which aren't that frequent. Even then I find a book and background music much more convenient.
Deckard wrote:But we are still talking 16 gig here and for that size screen eps of BSG, Lost , Simpsons are arent going to be big are they ?
I've just done a quick conversion of an episode of Heroes and it comes out at 87MB when shrunk to native screen size. The original TV rip I had was 366MB. So you can get roughly 180 TV shows of that order (45-50 minutes) onto a 16GB Touch. Not too shabby, the battery would be flat long before you watched that lot.
Deckard wrote:But we are still talking 16 gig here and for that size screen eps of BSG, Lost , Simpsons are arent going to be big are they ?
I've just done a quick conversion of an episode of Heroes and it comes out at 87MB when shrunk to native screen size. The original TV rip I had was 366MB. So you can get roughly 180 TV shows of that order (45-50 minutes) onto a 16GB Touch. Not too shabby, the battery would be flat long before you watched that lot.
I always use Visual Hub to convert to apple tv and they do the iphone and presumably the ipod touch in the next version - masses of options for quality and will do folders or individual files
Does HD video a treat
Deckard wrote:I always use Visual Hub to convert to apple tv and they do the iphone and presumably the ipod touch in the next version - masses of options for quality and will do folders or individual files
Does HD video a treat
Jimaroid wrote:I'm not sure why people worry about having their entire music collection on a single iPod. I've never had an iPod that'll contain all my music and there's never been a problem shuffling music around. It depends on your listening habits, obviously; I'm the sort that gets stuck in a groove and listening to the same or similar things over and over again before getting bitten by something completely different and wipe the lot. Small capacity storage with that kind of habit isn't a problem.
My only gripe with iPod capacity has ever been power, my first generation Nano being the worst culprit and seemingly has no longevity at all. Conversely the Shuffle is like a Duracell Bunny and tends to get most use because of it. Can't wait to touch my thing, the lead time in the UK Store means a wait until the beginning of October though...
I like to use my ipod for the odd occasional backup exercise, its good for this. I also have my entire collection (or most of it) on my ipod. I have quite dramatic changes of music taste throughout the day and it is useful. if it wasn't all on my ipod I would be ruining lots of cd's as they rattle about in the glovebox of my car - 16gb really isn't enough. I just couldn't be bothered to update my ipod once in a while when I get bored of what was already on it. (I agree about the battery life though, its embarassingly short)
I'd like to see other manufacturers respond to the ipod touchscreen, I like my ipod but I''m not sure I want to get stuck with apples "i" methodology again, I don't like itunes too much when it starts talking to my ipod.
If you're in range of a wifi connection, streaming your Last.FM radio station on the Touch is a possibility. Just thought of that 'cos I'm streaming mine on the Wii via Opera in my front room now, great way of listening to tunes and there's always your neighbours/groups/friends radio for streaming too.
Storing and managing MP3's is so last year, dahlings.
Rod_S wrote:If you're in range of a wifi connection, streaming your Last.FM radio station on the Touch is a possibility. Just thought of that 'cos I'm streaming mine on the Wii via Opera in my front room now, great way of listening to tunes and there's always your neighbours/groups/friends radio for streaming too.
Storing and managing MP3's is so last year, dahlings.
At what bit rate is that though as I tend to get upset at anything less than lossless
