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'iPod: Hot Accessories!' Confirmed.
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Interesting! The Apple Store UK are usually behind the US store!!!
Interesting! The Apple Store UK are usually behind the US store!!!
recording quality
Don't get your hopes up too much on this one. Technical considerations aside, there are legal reasons for restricting the recording capabilities. At least for the US market, computer peripherals are exempt from some DRM requirements that apply to standalone digital music recorders (in AHRA, the law that crippled consumer DAT).
Apple aren't likely to want to push this end of the envelope too far, especially seeing how they now have fairly close dealings with the recording industry.
Don't get your hopes up too much on this one. Technical considerations aside, there are legal reasons for restricting the recording capabilities. At least for the US market, computer peripherals are exempt from some DRM requirements that apply to standalone digital music recorders (in AHRA, the law that crippled consumer DAT).
Apple aren't likely to want to push this end of the envelope too far, especially seeing how they now have fairly close dealings with the recording industry.
Surely Apple can better Archos
I know the Archos Jukebox recorder is bigger, heavier and uglier than the iPod but it has a stereo line in and can record to hard disk at 160k.
Surely Apple can match or better that, even if the iPod has to be plugged in to overcome the high power requirement issues!
I don't want to get an Archos, I want an iPod but the inability to record live sets on an iPod is holding me back.
I know the Archos Jukebox recorder is bigger, heavier and uglier than the iPod but it has a stereo line in and can record to hard disk at 160k.
Surely Apple can match or better that, even if the iPod has to be plugged in to overcome the high power requirement issues!
I don't want to get an Archos, I want an iPod but the inability to record live sets on an iPod is holding me back.
Maybe the early appearence of the graphic is done deliberately. Either to excite the likes of us so we spread the word twice in one day to the unconverted (Accessories and iTunes). Or to make it more exciting for those of us in Europe who don't get ITunes today.
Well all the rumour sites have been abuzz for a couple of days, and it's not as if it's going to take sales away from existing products... I don't think they are really bothered about that...Originally posted by lucasraggers
It's also on the dutch Apple site. So no webmasters are getting fired:
Would be cool if the iPod got a CF reader, and a external color LCD the same size as the iPod itself. That way you could download you'r pictures to the iPod, and brows them, offcause, you could also put movies on you'r iPod, and watch them 
But I dare not hope...
/Jørgen Adam
But I dare not hope.../Jørgen Adam
As if by Magic....
Well they've all been taken down now.. If anyone wants to keep an eye on the link page, url is below:
http://promo.euro.apple.com/promo/ipod_accessories/uk/
I daresay we wont be seeing anything up there until the announcement now.. but if the last leak was a testament to Apple's internal control.. then hey, anything is possible...
Well they've all been taken down now.. If anyone wants to keep an eye on the link page, url is below:
http://promo.euro.apple.com/promo/ipod_accessories/uk/
I daresay we wont be seeing anything up there until the announcement now.. but if the last leak was a testament to Apple's internal control.. then hey, anything is possible...
You do realize that there's still a "real" mic and a preamp, right? If it has a mic port, it has a preamp of some sort.
Recording music would require a very broad frequency spectrum and therefore would be problematic to compress and fit in the small memory buffer and consume a lot of energy. Keep in mind that classical music won't sound very good in low bitrate compression for example. And running the harddrive all the time will drain the battery very fast.
My mididisc recorder which I got for field recordings can record full spectrum sound for about 10 hours on the battery. The recorder cost me 170 on ebay.. still way cheaper than an iPod fortunately.
Of course it only can record for 74 minutes before I have to switch discs...
Or so they'd like us to think..
Even if it's not, and it is a genuine mistake, it's all win win for Apple... They claim to hate leaks, but for us who feed like sharks on any scrap of information thrown our way, it's all publicity in one form or another..
i dont think the ipod could possible match the recording powers of mini disc. I cant see too many professionals selling their DATS and MD's to purchase an mp3 recorder. But its nice for us ipod owners to have some extra functionality added that we didnt originally buy into.
a $199 iPod?
that would be nice, or an iPod trade in program--have your original 5 gb iod still working, trade for a current version. If not, I'll buy a new one for Christmas. Ican still use the first one for my backup stuff.
that would be nice, or an iPod trade in program--have your original 5 gb iod still working, trade for a current version. If not, I'll buy a new one for Christmas. Ican still use the first one for my backup stuff.