New iPods

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:43 pm 0

HGFB wrote:For comparison here's a similar screenshot taken on my 30gig Cowon A2. I used the built in screenshot function that initially takes a bmp. I then converted this to a jpg at 96% quality

Using a picture taken internally on the device doesn't really show us the quality of the screen!

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:43 pm 0

Er, using the internal screenshot function isn't going to give you a clue about the LCD display quality which appears to be the issue here. Some people with the early Touches seem to be reporting poor resolution of blacks in images and videos. Others don't. It could be a single bad batch of LCDs, it could be that LCDs in the Touches come from multiple sources and one lot isn't that good - nobody knows yet.

Could be a case of a bit of a delay before us Euros get ours being a good thing since any issues may well be resolved by the time we get ours.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:53 pm 0

Ah good point. Would it help if I said it pisses all over both of the Apple device screenshots?

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:56 pm 0

HGFB wrote:Ah good point. Would it help if I said it pisses all over both of the Apple device screenshots?

Not really sure how it'll help since this thread is for discussion of, er, the new iPods.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:57 pm 0

Possible alternatives if you're someone who wants to watch video a lot?

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:01 pm 0

I am sure people are capable of making their own informed decisions as to which PMP they prefer. This thread's pretty clearly about the new iPods, and just as one doesn't go into the ps3 thread and start saying it's rubbish compared to the x360 which is plainly a viable alternative device for people who enjopy playing video games, perhaps this isn't the place for PMP advocacy either.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:04 pm 0

No need to get shirty. I'm not trying to cause any trouble. I'll leave you to the thread I started then.

matt · Post by **matt** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:05 pm 0

HGFB,

We know your happy with your player but please try to stay on topic.

As Jeff rightly says, there are currently some unknown issues with iPod Touch LCD panels. Interested parties are best to keep an eye out.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:06 pm 0

matt wrote:We know your happy with your player but please try to stay on topic.

This is YakYak Matt. Nobody stays on topic

Has anyone taken any video shots from the new Nanos then?

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:16 pm 0

I don't know if anyone has posted this yet but if you plan on using one of the new IPods with something other than ITunes you might have a problem.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/09/15 ... new-ipods/

sty · Post by **sty** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:18 pm 0

HGFB wrote:I don't know if anyone has posted this yet but if you plan on using one of the new IPods with something other than ITunes you might have a problem.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/09/15 ... new-ipods/

I was juts reading this earlier and while it's a bit of a cheap shot on Apples part it isn't honestly going to stop the Linux mod writing new tools, they'll crack the hashing pretty easily I recon - if they can crack the stuff on XBox360 firmware I'm sure what Apple have come up with isn't going to be a problem.

Apple really isn't going to hunt them down and destroy them for it though are they? Probably the same story for any hobbyist/open source windows updates as well I imaging.

What this does give Apple though is a nive big DMCA stick to beat anybody commercial up with. As someone pointed out elsewhere it effectively stops MS coming up with an interface to the Zune store and embedding it in the next service pack releases of XP and Vista, in fact it stops MS building any form of default manager for iPods into future versions of windows.

So long term I don't see this as a big deal, just Apple getting a bit of housekeeping sorted out. I can't believe they haven't been signing and certing these things up to now anyway.

Tuur · Post by **Tuur** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:33 pm 0

HGFB wrote:I don't know if anyone has posted this yet but if you plan on using one of the new IPods with something other than ITunes you might have a problem.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/09/15 ... new-ipods/

Solved: http://ipodminusitunes.blogspot.com/200 ... e-won.html

sty · Post by **sty** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:15 pm 0

Tuur wrote:
HGFB wrote:I don't know if anyone has posted this yet but if you plan on using one of the new IPods with something other than ITunes you might have a problem.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/09/15 ... new-ipods/
Solved: http://ipodminusitunes.blogspot.com/200 ... e-won.html

There you go, mission accomplished for Apple and the hackers, business as usual and Apple has the DMCA to fall back on if it doesn't really like what someone is doing commercially.

anon76235 · Post by **anon76235** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:55 am 0

when are they in the shops?

JQW · Post by **JQW** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:20 pm 0

HGFB wrote:I don't know if anyone has posted this yet but if you plan on using one of the new IPods with something other than ITunes you might have a problem.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/09/15 ... new-ipods/

Are we certain this is nothing more than a data file integrity check? They've just added a hash to the end of the large XML file that contains all of the library info. If the file does get corrupted it'll render the iPod unstable (which has happened to me with previous iPod models), so it's a good idea to include some extra integrity checking.