New iPods

owen · Post by **owen** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:45 pm 0

is it just me, or are the new nanos really really fugly?

the refresh has persuaded me to get a refurb one from the apple store, 8gig slim, on its way,

adam · Post by **adam** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:57 pm 0

goldfish wrote:

that thing looks bloody huge, how is anyone supposed to carry it?
oh i see, it floats along behind it's owner...

/coat

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:24 am 0

Ars have got some comparison pictures of the nano.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.a ... ing-photos

Even better.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ipodlounger

fihu · Post by **fihu** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:17 am 0

I got that one on the left.

Meatpuppet · Post by **Meatpuppet** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:59 am 0

Pre-ordered mine yesterday - my 160gig Zen is on it's last legs and only runs
of the mains now, so it's a good base unit for the hi-fi.

My first iPod purchase, so glad that I've been holding out all these years

ravuya · Post by **ravuya** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:28 pm 0

So has Sickboy gotten a new iPod yet, then? It's been at least 12 hours. I mean, come on.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:22 pm 0

He'll have wankers, sorry Pac Man wrist if he's not careful

jshawnd · Post by **jshawnd** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:12 am 0

f*ck, was all set to get a 160gb classic, but after reading this thread, now i'm thinking of the 16gb touch...something to ponder over the weekend, i guess.

skip · Post by **skip** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:21 am 0

Deckard wrote:Apple famously asked Google to re-encode for H264, firstly cause of the Apple TV and now as a happy knock on effect for the phone and the ipod They are still someway off converting the lot though

Has anyone worked out how these can be accessed on a 'regular' computer. Youtube looks rather poor on an otherwise crisp HDTV hooked up to a Mac Mini which is being used as an HTPC.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 8:39 am 0

skip wrote:
Deckard wrote:Apple famously asked Google to re-encode for H264, firstly cause of the Apple TV and now as a happy knock on effect for the phone and the ipod They are still someway off converting the lot though
Has anyone worked out how these can be accessed on a 'regular' computer. Youtube looks rather poor on an otherwise crisp HDTV hooked up to a Mac Mini which is being used as an HTPC.

Odd that, as on HDTV using an Apple TV and wifi most of youtube looks surprisingly good these days and I thought the Apple TV and Mac Mini would generate the same video output ?

Jamie · Post by **Jamie** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:10 pm 0

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.

Not a lot of good though if you're on a bus, tube, car or only within range of a public wifi point charging Â£5 an hour.

Jamie · Post by **Jamie** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:15 pm 0

Jimaroid wrote:
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.

What settings were you using to get such a small file?

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:26 pm 0

Quite a bit of info here and I would be surprised if any normal TV ep went about 100 meg...

http://forums.ilounge.com/archive/index.php/f-91.html

matt · Post by **matt** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:29 pm 0

Probably H.264 codec?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/h264/

matt

Jamie · Post by **Jamie** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:39 pm 0

matt wrote:Probably H.264 codec?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/h264/

matt

I'm trying to resize an episode of lost to put on my n95 at the moment. I'm using the H.264 codec using settings recommended on an n95 blog and I ended up with a file bigger than the 300 odd meg that the original was. Hmmmm....