New iPods

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:13 pm 0

Sickboy wrote:
GeeZa wrote:Ordered:

I love you very much, GeeZa.

matt · Post by **matt** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:37 pm 0

The Flash SDK is still on v7, so Adobe need to do a lot of work to upgrade that to v9 and improve performance because it runs like a dog on anything other than Windows.

The only plus point is that if Apple convince Adobe to do it, we will see an update to Flash on the Wii, too.

matt

pogo · Post by **pogo** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:57 pm 0

Misfit wrote:
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

http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
Yes,I looked at that last time you mentioned it. Looks great.

But I use PCs.....

I use QuickTime Pro - it has presets for iPhone and iPod (the best size, codec and compression for each), and with free codecs such as Perian it will convert from pretty much any format. QT Pro is cross platform though Perian isn't.

flookster · Post by **flookster** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:30 pm 0

I bought the 16GB Touch last night - the "ooh shiny" got the better of me. Its actually quite a decent purchase for me. I work in a job that requires very little in the way of real attention so I spend my day listening to podcasts and audio books. Net access (beyond the intranet) is strictly banned during office hours and as its a secure environment we have to spend breaks away from the office floor and mobiles are not allowed. We do have a small net cafe in work but due to demand we are limited to 15 min chunks on the terminals. Add in the ability to watch some shows and video podcasts during my 45 min each way commute and the Touch more or less sold itself.

I dont own a mobile phone and despite not really wanting to own one I have been considering buying the iPhone when its launched here - now I dont have too. Bonus.

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:51 pm 0

Yeah I'm looking forward to Touching Up. I've got a still going 40Gb 3G iPod but as great as it is, I'm not getting any tech horn from it any more. I've held out this long so it's not as if I haven't earned it. It's not such a bad upgrade timespan really.

The main thing for me is the design (slim, light, shiny -- gotta love Ive) and the GUI. I know already from using an iPhone that it's going to be a joy to use. I love the the new black lists for song selection, the finger-scrolling and album art interaction. It's a definite leap upwards from the functional text scrolling of the older Pods. The video player is very impressive but I see me using that maybe 10% or less. YouTube vids for music are definitely on the agenda.

Although the capacity hit is big, about 75% of my iTunes usage revolves around my 'New Shit' smart playlist which holds everything new for the last month or so. So I think I'm just going to have to build a few more smart playlists so that I can filter stuff more intelligently. That might actually be quite fun anyway and to be honest is long overdue. My library is already too big to navigate properly and sometimes when I try and find something to listen to I'm scrolling through endless lists and my eyes glaze over.

The Wifi and net stuff is just a bonus. Sitting in bed reading the web, maybe the occassional forum post, hell it should even work as a Slimserver remote now. And I think buying stuff off the iTunes store using Wifi is a nice addition. I can definitely see me reading forums/blogs/reviews and then popping into iTunes to preview and possibly purchase. Only instead of hulking about a MacBook I can use a slim little pocket calculator type of thing. If they can get it to play with other services like Bleep and Emusic then we're really cooking.

I LOVE YOU STEVE.

matt · Post by **matt** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:22 pm 0

Can somebody rename the thread so the "iPods" word is in the right case

THANKS

offyoutoddle · Post by **offyoutoddle** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:25 pm 0

I hope the ipod touch can access shared music over wifi. It would be handy if it could access my >16gb music collection on my network while I'm around the house at least.

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:28 pm 0

Guru-Meditation wrote:

Just to be clear, then... You're offering to buy me an iPod Touch if I beat your Pac-Man CE score? That's definitely the way I read that image.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:31 pm 0

Like I'm afraid

Of course it would read "Sickboy got this the day he beat my Pacman CE score" instead but yes ...

matt · Post by **matt** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:38 pm 0

GM, I think you'll live to regret that challenge

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:40 pm 0

matt wrote:GM, I think you'll live to regret that challenge

I won't if I lose and the wife finds out

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:02 pm 0

I thought I was top dog on Paccie...goes off to check the hi score table....

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:05 pm 0

matt wrote:Can somebody rename the thread so the "iPods" word is in the right case

THANKS

You'd need to talk to the mod who changed it. Not guilty.

sty · Post by **sty** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:23 pm 0

I just managed to pre-order one of these with a local retailer, I'm number one on the pre-order list, so cross fingers I should get it on launch day here in NZ

GeeZa wrote:The Wifi and net stuff is just a bonus. Sitting in bed reading the web, maybe the occassional forum post, hell it should even work as a Slimserver remote now.

I hadn't even thought of those features yet. With some cunning dev here at work I can use it to keep an eye on email etc. while I am in meetings, wipe the smug grin from the faces of all the people wit Blackberries

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:39 pm 0

matt wrote:GM, I think you'll live to regret that challenge

It's like walking up to Rik and challenging him to a scrap.

I mean, theoretically I suppose it's possible... but chucking down the gauntlet to Sickers isn't something I'd do if I fancied hanging onto my new iPod...

speaking of which, I can't believe that I'm now actually bothering to locate and manually install all the album covers that iTunes can't find, just so that everything will look pretty when I start using my new Touch

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Steve, you absolute cunt

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