Apple Video I-Pod

[ginapeterb]

then again if you live in London, you probably want to shut the place out of your ears

Stop picking on London hahaha Keith you are up to your old tricks again, of slagging London, come down and visit us, see how the city is...come and enjoy yourself, its very cosmopolitan, come and have a chinese buffet with us in Shepherds Bush, take a trip on the many cruise ferries that run up and down the Thames, come to Leicester Square and hang out, and sip a capuccino, come to Covent Garden in the Summer, and have a Pimms, come to Chinatown off Picadilly and browse the many chinese shops, take a stroll through St James Park, or Kensington Palace Gardens, come with Gina and I, and hop on the Central Line, and browse down Oxford Street, or if you prefer, come to Tottenham Court road and see the many Hi Fi shops, browse the latest deals on everything you can think of, and when you are tired of that, lets go on the London Eye at night, and have a birds eye view of the city while sipping a glass of champagne, that can be arranged, come on Keith what do you need an invitation ?

London is and always has been the greatest city in the world, there is something for everyone, always something to do, ...heheheh, and your reply Keith ?

[walesrob]

OK, it seems I'm a little blinkered when it comes to Ipods - seems it does accept MP3, WAVS and AAC file formats, the same with the Video IPod - this takes the mpg standard used in most windows applications.

Still don't like the idea of having to install ITunes to access the player - my Creative can be accessed using the standard Windows explorer, using the good old drag and drop.

[ginapeterb]

Originally posted by walesrob@Dec 19 2005, 09:59 AM
OK, it seems I'm a little blinkered when it comes to Ipods - seems it does accept MP3, WAVS and AAC file formats, the same with the Video IPod - this takes the mpg standard used in most windows applications.

Still don't like the idea of having to install ITunes to access the player - my Creative can be accessed using the standard Windows explorer, using the good old drag and drop.

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Apple have been a bit smart here Rob, when you put the Apple I Pod in the dock (not supplied) ehhehe, another £29.00 for the Infra Red dock, it sycs directly with I-tunes, and can detect also if you are nicking music from Limewire, this is of course very similar to Sony Network walkmans, which use the Atrac3 format, with the Atrac format, songs are literally checked in and out, you can only check them out to no more than 5 devices, such as Burning a CD, this their efforts to prevent song nicking, I dont mind buying videos from I-tunes, as the compression is so good, the frame rate is phenomenal, the other thing I like about Quicktime, is that the videos, are played from a streaming server, not a web server, the quality is much better, any way enough of that.

I also use Real Player 7, as Real Player uses a streaming server, so videos launch straight away, unlike windows media player which seems to have a problem with that, it tends to donwload the whole file before playing, thats why on my Boracay page, I use the real player format to show the Boracay video, as it launches literally in seconds, and streams down from my server.

I think the player you have Rob is excellent, one doesnt need to splash out on I-pod, if you have a perfectly good player, its just that I am totally using Apple for everything, I used to live and breathe windows, but now, having gone Apple..I am 100 per cent converted, the IMAC G5 is fantastic to use, it beats those Sony all in one...entertainment Pc's with those horrible folding down keyboards, using the Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, makes the cables a thing of the past, I just love the whole set up.

Its just so b....expensive with Apple, and you literally pay for everything, I just wished they would have shipped a remote control headphone set with the video pod, the standard headphones supplied are run of the mill, I would like to have seen a set of headphones that control the player.