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U2 iPod, Photo iPod and Additional iTMS Localizations Released
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Eric_Z said:
whatever situation makes your iPod spazz around for 17 minutes straight would probably be life threatening anyway.
jayscheuerle
macrumors 68020
Metatron said:
Do you have any idea if these tiny hard-drives are even capable of the transfer rate needed for full-screen video? Watch the battery life drop to 20 minutes when you try playing a movie off of one of these things...
Stewie said:
Given the size of the screen and resolution of SVideo on a standard TV, I'd guess 720x480 JPEG format would be the max resolution. Apple might bring that down to something more on the order of 360x240 with very little negative impact (that would be approximately VHS resolution for TV output, but might show artifacts in downsampling to the screen resolution). I suspect the thumbnails are pre-rendered on transfer too, at, what, around 50 pixels across?
[edit:] The main oddity here is that they claim only 25,000 photos on the 60GB iPod photo. This may be due to iPhoto "limitations" (25k photos is the upper limit recommended for iPhoto), but if it's a real disk-size issue then that leaves 2.4MB/photo (just slightly less, as a 60GB iPod disk, once formatted, will be less than 60,000 MB). That's a lot of space for a .3 MP image and a thumbnail; even uncompressed at 24-bit resolution a 720x480x24-bit bitmap (or tif) image will take up only around 1 MB ...
stevehaslip
macrumors 6502a
I don't think that we'll see an iPod mini photo any time soon, they had to make the normal iPod larger to house eveything so can you imagine getting more inners inside the mini? they would probably have to make it larger and how easy would that be to do to the mini? With the normal iPod they just extend it in terms of depth but they couldn't do that with the mini because it has a one part shell. sure it would be cool but i think its far more likely that we'll see a colour screen iPod before we see a colour screen iPod mini photo. The mini might get the colour screen but it might not get the photo capabilities to differenciate between the two lines?
Apple love doing that kind of stuff! 😛 😕
Apple love doing that kind of stuff! 😛 😕
jocknerd said:
Let me see... recent PowerMac, 30GB iPod and iBook...
And you still find a way to complain? 🙄
iTunes Store Netherlands
Yeehah!!!
I just purchased my first songs through the iTunes Music Store in The Netherlands (R.E.M. and All Girl Summer Fun Band)!! Although I'm missing some artists. Bettie Serveert (a dutch band) is available in the US Store but not in the dutch store, hmm. I also found some terrible dutch songtitles, which look to be written in a phonetic dutch. Ah well...
Yeehah!!!
I just purchased my first songs through the iTunes Music Store in The Netherlands (R.E.M. and All Girl Summer Fun Band)!! Although I'm missing some artists. Bettie Serveert (a dutch band) is available in the US Store but not in the dutch store, hmm. I also found some terrible dutch songtitles, which look to be written in a phonetic dutch. Ah well...
Regular_John
macrumors 68040
Yeah but all that does is create a really big mp3/acc file. So even if you take everyone of pink floyds albums and make them each into their own album file your still going to have gaps when you get to the end of one album and switch to the next.
This also essentially keeps you from selecting a song on it's own. feel like hearing money by itself and have no gaps? forget it.
Heck this "fix" you mention don't work at all for shuffle.
This also essentially keeps you from selecting a song on it's own. feel like hearing money by itself and have no gaps? forget it.
Heck this "fix" you mention don't work at all for shuffle.
veedubdrew said:
gekko513
macrumors 603
Asono Elio was also announced today in Norway. English link
It is a 20GB MP3/WMA + Photo device. It can be connected directly to a camera and can also read SD cards it seems. It shows photos, but can't show photos directly on a TV as far as I can tell. The price is 28% less than the 40GB iPod Photo, so that would be $359 if it was in the U.S. I'm not sure which is the best buy if you compare specs and price.
It is a 20GB MP3/WMA + Photo device. It can be connected directly to a camera and can also read SD cards it seems. It shows photos, but can't show photos directly on a TV as far as I can tell. The price is 28% less than the 40GB iPod Photo, so that would be $359 if it was in the U.S. I'm not sure which is the best buy if you compare specs and price.
Can Con gots nothin ta do wit it.
Can con is still in full effect (thank god, without it there'd be no Barenaked Ladies, Stompin' Tom Connors, Sam Roberts, Hawksley Workman, Gordon Lightfoot, Sarah McLaughlin, etc.) but it has nothing to do with ecommerce. Can con governs production (in terms of what material can qualify) but really relates to broadcast of canadian material on Tv and in radio. Stores don't have to carry a single canadian album if they don't want to, but they'd be fools since the content rules make canadian music much more popular than it would otherwise be. Most brick and mortar music stores have ton(ne)s of canadian stuff up here because it's popular and sells well, and apple would be smart to do the same, just as they've done in britain. Also certain albums aren't released in canada when they come out in the states, and apple's agreement would be with the canadian subsidiaries of the big 5.
They'll make a canadian store for economic and label reasons, not governmental ones.
Rod Rod said:
Can con is still in full effect (thank god, without it there'd be no Barenaked Ladies, Stompin' Tom Connors, Sam Roberts, Hawksley Workman, Gordon Lightfoot, Sarah McLaughlin, etc.) but it has nothing to do with ecommerce. Can con governs production (in terms of what material can qualify) but really relates to broadcast of canadian material on Tv and in radio. Stores don't have to carry a single canadian album if they don't want to, but they'd be fools since the content rules make canadian music much more popular than it would otherwise be. Most brick and mortar music stores have ton(ne)s of canadian stuff up here because it's popular and sells well, and apple would be smart to do the same, just as they've done in britain. Also certain albums aren't released in canada when they come out in the states, and apple's agreement would be with the canadian subsidiaries of the big 5.
They'll make a canadian store for economic and label reasons, not governmental ones.
Regular_John
macrumors 68040
hehe yes no gab between albums is definalty impossible....well actually I think Atari Teenage Riot did an album where the last 2 seconds of the last song were the first 2 seconds of the first song so the album would loop with it'self.
But my point is that Mp3's have gaps between separate files. And to the person who claimed winamp didn't have these gaps you are wrong. Winamp simply has a cross fade in use which fades from song to song so the gaps arean't as noticable. If you turn the cross fading off the gaps are still present.
But my point is that Mp3's have gaps between separate files. And to the person who claimed winamp didn't have these gaps you are wrong. Winamp simply has a cross fade in use which fades from song to song so the gaps arean't as noticable. If you turn the cross fading off the gaps are still present.
dejo said:
My Analysis-Questions
OK, first- SWEET!!!!!!!!!! More/cooler ipods, more itms, more software all equals more customers. Way great. And, black U2 ipod, not a bad deal in the least, as even if I don't want the WHOLE catalog... it's worth a lot more than $50.
Now, the questions (and a few comments):
1. What is new in itunes 4.7?
1a) For those who aren't getting new ipods, what are the new features/functionality? They're had better be SOMETHING.
1b) If it didn't break rhapsody, I'd say tomorrow microsoft would make windows open source. But what else does it break? Gettunes and Ourtunes, anybody know?
2. Man, I love the additions to itms, even though I'm (gulp) an american. (hopefully I can say that with a much smaller gulp in a week!!!!). But, no Japan and Canada! Those are no brainers?
3. Also concerning itms additions: is the .99 euro price increasing or decreasing the price of any of the old european music stores? How do prices compare, now, between US, Britain, rest of europe?
4. GRRR.... a b+w screen, 60 gig ipod would naturally have fit into the line at 499. I understand that the photo will sell (I don't see why, but people buy phones that take pictures that can only look decent on the phone's screen, so...). But please, the ipod is first about music, why should I have to pay an extra hundread dollars for a feature I don't want, (color) before I can then spend another hundread for what I do (size)? Hopefully next gen. will have a larger size ipod without photo, instead of adding photo to lower sizes.
OK, first- SWEET!!!!!!!!!! More/cooler ipods, more itms, more software all equals more customers. Way great. And, black U2 ipod, not a bad deal in the least, as even if I don't want the WHOLE catalog... it's worth a lot more than $50.
Now, the questions (and a few comments):
1. What is new in itunes 4.7?
1a) For those who aren't getting new ipods, what are the new features/functionality? They're had better be SOMETHING.
1b) If it didn't break rhapsody, I'd say tomorrow microsoft would make windows open source. But what else does it break? Gettunes and Ourtunes, anybody know?
2. Man, I love the additions to itms, even though I'm (gulp) an american. (hopefully I can say that with a much smaller gulp in a week!!!!). But, no Japan and Canada! Those are no brainers?
3. Also concerning itms additions: is the .99 euro price increasing or decreasing the price of any of the old european music stores? How do prices compare, now, between US, Britain, rest of europe?
4. GRRR.... a b+w screen, 60 gig ipod would naturally have fit into the line at 499. I understand that the photo will sell (I don't see why, but people buy phones that take pictures that can only look decent on the phone's screen, so...). But please, the ipod is first about music, why should I have to pay an extra hundread dollars for a feature I don't want, (color) before I can then spend another hundread for what I do (size)? Hopefully next gen. will have a larger size ipod without photo, instead of adding photo to lower sizes.
LaMerVipere
macrumors 6502a
Did ANYONE Else Notice...
...that Apple finally ditched their classic "Chicago" font used for the iPod, and now the "Myriad" font they use in all their ads has replaced it?
I will wait until photo capabilities make their way into ALL the iPods. $299 or $349 iPod Photo...mmmm
...that Apple finally ditched their classic "Chicago" font used for the iPod, and now the "Myriad" font they use in all their ads has replaced it?
I will wait until photo capabilities make their way into ALL the iPods. $299 or $349 iPod Photo...mmmm
SilentPanda said:
Correct, but there are the iPod-viewable images (25,000 capacity) and "full resolution" images (capacity indeterminate as "full resolution" may be anything from 2MP to 25MP per picture). The web site makes a very clear distinction there, which I read as meaning that iTunes will resample your photos to some other format/resolution on the fly as they are being transfered over (which is, really, a very quick and easy process, much more practical than, say, transcoding audio on the fly ...).
I actually liked the 3G buttons better -- so I'll be hanging onto my 10-gig iPod for a while.
But when it comes to the new models, the photo thing looks pretty cool, though the price is starting to get into iBook territory...but it will come down.
The U2 iPod might be nice for a U2 fan or someone who doesn't want to buy from Colorware.
Though if I were in the iPod market again today I'd probably just get the 20-gig and save the rest for accessories.
But when it comes to the new models, the photo thing looks pretty cool, though the price is starting to get into iBook territory...but it will come down.
The U2 iPod might be nice for a U2 fan or someone who doesn't want to buy from Colorware.
Though if I were in the iPod market again today I'd probably just get the 20-gig and save the rest for accessories.
dejo said:
I'm not reactionary, I'm underwhelmed at Apple's offerings.
Currently I am using a SmartDisk FlashTrax. It shows pictures, (including RAW format from my camera, plays MP3's, can store files, etc. And most importantly, I can transfer images directly from my flash-cards.
And it has a bigger screen.
These devices have different capabilities, but to show you what's out there.....
http://www.delkin.com/delkin_products_picturepad.html
http://www.archos.com/ (photos, MP3's and VIDEO)
Apple is late to the game, and I resent being called a liar.
rikers_mailbox said:
Is it AACplus? Did they simply not mention it? (after all, it would lower demand for higher-capacity iPods, wouldn't it?)