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New iPods - Video Support, TV Episodes, Music Videos

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Gingerbread Man said:
Does this mean video podcast? Can you tell were Im going with this? :D
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There were quite a few video podcasts before the new iPod. Most of them were rubbish, but there is one or two good ones.
 
If anyone here is planning on buying the new iPod as soon as it's available in stores, or online, could you please PM me. :) I have to ask a favor! (take pictures, etc.)
 
Madonna Video iPod Prediction

Ok - Here goes...

Instead of the previously rumored nanoMadona in pink, I predict a standard size Madonna iPod in pink which includes:
1) The entire music catalog
2) The entire video catalog - have you noticed how many videos of hers are on the site already?
3) Engraved with her signature
4) Pink earbuds? Maybe?
 
fordlemon said:
You can buy the 24 episode DVD set of LOST in Dolby Digital 5.1 for under $40. Who would be stupid enough to buy ANY of these episodes through Apple? You HAVE to have them all or the show makes no sense. It's not a one show one story deal. Of course I am wrong. I'm intelligent.
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You would have to be stupid to buy songs off iTunes too, since you get better quality with CD's. But they've sold a jabillion songs or whatever.

Who cares!? Don't buy songs or TV shows. I don't buy music from iTunes, but I'm not raising a big stink over it.

I don't see buying a bunch of TV shows, but can easily see buying 1 or 2 on occasion. OMFG I SHOULD'VE GOTTEN THE HD DVD!!!!

You have to keep things in perspective. The video playback is a new feature to the regular iPod. In another year or 2 as the tech gets better, we'll have full VGA resolution. If you think the battery life is bad now for video, decoding VGA H264...forget about it.
 
excalibur313 said:
Can you convert any type of movie file yourself into one that would be compatible with playing on the ipod?
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Yes. ffmpegx is the best program I know of for now. I imagine in a few days they'll release an update with good presets for H264 and MPEG4.
 
I have a bunch of episodes of Family Guy and that 70's show, except they're in DIVX and XVID format. Can anyone tell me of a program (preferably free) that I can use to convert these to MP4 or h.264?? I ordered a 5G iPod today and now am trying to figure out how to take advantage of the video playing feature.
 
Mr Maui said:
Wonder if the designer for the web pages let slip something they shouldn't have. Many links seem to work and link to areas in Apple's website, except for the small computer links up in the corner and a few others. They ask if you are looking for something on Apple's site. The Buy Now links to the current Powerbook setup. Very interesting. :)
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The only obvious problem with that is it has a link to download iTunes 5..
Wonder if this person knew if iTunes 6 was coming out today :)
 
all-in-my-head said:
I just got Madonna - Vogue to sample and got perfect image on full screen off G5 PM with 20" cinema display. Albeit 4:3, but its an old video.

One thing tho, iTunes doesn't allow continual play between videos and stops after each one. The loop/shuffle button is greyed out. Annoying for music videos & tv shows if your watching 24 or summin Anyone noticed this, know if there is an option!?
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That seems a little too good to be true (but great if it is true)...has anyone else bought a music video and played fullscreen?

The only other post was for a 50 Cent video, he said it looked pixellated full screen.
 
music video quality

I have downloaded several music videos. It seems that they are all different qualities. The Nas One Mic video doesn't look near as good in full screen as some of the U2 videos.
 
madmaxmedia said:
That seems a little too good to be true (but great if it is true)...has anyone else bought a music video and played fullscreen?

The only other post was for a 50 Cent video, he said it looked pixellated fuss screen.
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Well at 320x320 it's gonna look like **** on anything but an ipod, at least that's what I've been told.
 
Peace said:
The only obvious problem with that is it has a link to download iTunes 5..
Wonder if this person knew if iTunes 6 was coming out today :)
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If it's fake, it's very well done.
 
TV mode

i haven't found the answer yet, but if you watch the event in quicktime, when sj uses the plugged in ipod, the images it shows is the video playing inside an ipod style enclosure on screen. ??? anyone found anything abouit this?
 
So the new iPod supports voice recording settings:

Low (22.05 KHz, mono)
High (44.1 KHz, stereo)

This is new, right?
 
this thing can play your own videos right? meaning the nonpurchased ones as long as its mpeg4

also i think its really gay that this thing doesnt come with the power brick

anyone wanna trade a 30 gb 5g and its power brick or an a/v cable for a psp value pack w/ t.h.u.g.2 and a 15 gb 3g ipod and an itrip?
 
The Apple TiVo

Wow! If Apple bought Tivo they'd own the digital audio and video world.

Lynxpro said:
Apple will tell you that more people in America have iPods and iTunes than TiVo. TiVo has not gone out of its way to support Mac OS X in the past year, so I don't see why Apple would jump in to support them.

And I say that as a TiVo fan. But the problem is, TiVo is its worst enemy. They are sitting on the HD stand-alone TiVo for Zoroaster-knows-what-reason. Its been done for 1 1/2 years, and yet they won't bring it to market because apparently they think consumers will pass on it unless it is compatible with CableCard 2.0 because PPV and On-Demand is SOOOO important for some reason.

I'm really at the point that I believe Apple seriously should just buy TiVo and sack its management team once and for all. Bring out the HD models, integrate it tightly with iTunes/iMovie/iPod, and make it even more successful.
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Will we start to see "New Video Wednesdays"? Like with Music when Tuesday is the release day. I know Steve said the night after an episode has aired it will be put on iTunes. But I'm thinking New Shows Every Wednesday.
 
So the videos are not good enough resolution to watch on your TV. Can you atleast encode your own videos at a higher resolution suitable for TV? I really don't get it what's the point of video output if it's gonna look like crap?
 
dan-o-mac said:
Well at 320x320 it's gonna look like **** on anything but an ipod, at least that's what I've been told.
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I think the videos are the same quality as the ones that were free to view a couple of weeks ago. I have already expressed my disappointment that Apple isn't yet going into the content distribution via the web business yet so I won't repeat it. I think the ITMS will have to be restructured and higher resolution (i.e. protected mpeg h.264 800x600) offered for $2 per download before this takes off. It could be that Apple just doesn’t have the bandwidth to offer this yet.
 
monolith said:
http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html

Look at the specs. I'll post the relevant ones. You can forget putting your movie library on the iPod and hooking it up to your friends tele, and watching them. Pay attention to the resolution. And check out battery life.

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MPEG-4 video: up to 2.5 mbps, 480 x 480, 30 frames per sec., Simple Profile with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats

30GB: Up to 14 hours of music playback; up to 3 hours of slideshows with music; up to 2 hours of video playback

60GB: Up to 20 hours of music playback; up to 4 hours of slideshows with music; up to 3 hours of video playback
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480x480 isn't a whole lot worse (on a non-LCD screen) than 720x480 (because vertical lines of resolutions on most sets are less than 720 in chrominance, although luminance is usually around there in recent sets).

Given that VHS is about 320x240 in resolution, and many people are still happy with that resolution, I don't think 480x480 is all that bad of a trade-off.

As for battery life: ever hear of a charger? I imagine if I was going to use my iPod for a night of movies I could afford the slight inconvenience of plugging the charger in!

All in all, I could certainly see myself plugging this in to a friend's TV set and sitting down to watch a few of my favorite movies or shows. "Could" because as of yet there's no way to get CSS-protected DVD data onto the iPod (without using gray-market DeCSS tools) and only two shows available that I'd be interested in seeing (and, frankly, I don't know anyone who's not already addicted to Lost and I'm not interested enough in DH to show it off to anyone).

Things will get a whole lot more interesting after this "test" project takes off and we get essentially the entire TV library on iTTVS, and/or the ability to rip DVDs to an iPod (which, as I've said before, is really just a matter of Apple getting the iPod certified as a CSS device and then licensing the CSS keys).
 
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