Apple’s “iPod has become the symbol of cool. There are a number of different flavors, from the 512MB, flash-based Shuffle all the way to the new 60GB hard drive-based iPod Video. You can carry anywhere from a few hundred songs to tens of thousands of songs — all on one device,” Murray Hill writes for The StarPhoenix (Canada).
“The iPod Video can do much more than its predecessors. You can carry the usual thousands of songs, audio books, photos, and blogs. But now, you can carry music videos, TV shows, movies, video blogs,” Hill writes. “Watching a movie or video on the new iPod is fun and cool, but I’m not so sure I’d sit in front of it for hours. However, it’s great for videos and shorter clips. The big thing is that all the full sized iPods are now iPod Videos, so even if you never play a movie or TV show or video, you still have all the other benefits of an iPod. If you do want to watch video, go check out the iTunes Music Store and prepare to get blown away by the number of video available for purchase to view on your new iPod.”
“Wouldn’t you know it, but right after Jobs announced that the Video would be available and that Apple had worked out a deal to offer TV shows in the iTunes Music Store; the porn market got into the game. Yes, unfortunately that’s right, you can already download porn for the iPod Video,” Hill writes.
As “Cons,” Hill writes, “You can only download and play certain kinds of video, which is available for purchase at the iTunes Store. The Video is the most costly iPod yet, with the 30Gb retailing for $379 and the 60GB retailing for $499.”
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The most costly ipod yet?!?! The new 60gb iPod sells in the U.S. for $399. I paid the same price for my 40gb iPod that has a b/w screen, does not display photos, and does not play videos. Sounds to me like the new iPod is no more expensive than past iPods, yet Apple has packed it with more value than ever before!
ever done this math? the shuffle 512 is 99.00, so in effect its 198.00/gig,
the highest end ipod is 60 gigs for 399.00, or 6.65/gig, wow. Did I do that correctly?
another thing, doesn’t it seem like the author gives the impression that ‘only’ videos bought from iTunes work? just read the MDN take, they noticed too… why can’t get these people get it right the first time?
and what about the $599 original 60gb ipod photo?
you can’t imagine how much expensive first generation ipod back in 2001. it was like $599 with only 5GB (1000 songs). that was insane.
I Know I’m an old antique ggeeeeezer here but I remember just 4 years out of the 1900’s (yes less than 2 years ago, Jan 2004) when I bought my 40 gig 3rd generation iPod/ Scroll wheel with 4 buttons.
$500. thats right $500 for b/w screen, no phots and no video.
Does this guy have a math problem? Sorry, but I for one have never seen a video iPod ANYWHERE going for $379 for 30GB and $499 for 60GB. Is he Canadian or Australian? Weird.
MW: Perhaps we should give this writer a little math “help”.
If you guys look it up, he’s writing for a Canadian paper. So $499 is very likely in Canadian dollars.
Aha! He is Canadian. But still, how can this be the most expensive iPod yet when the prices are the same as the previous generation?
MDN said: “You can, of course, connect iPod to your television set with the iPod AV Cable for just US$19.00.”
Actually, you can do that for about five bones (US$5). Go here http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/11/18/video-ipod.html
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I believe it was 499.00 for the first iPod.
Article asserts: “The Video is the most costly iPod yet, with the 30Gb retailing for $379 and the 60GB retailing for $499.”
Err…not as such, Mr Hill. Prices of iPods have been steadily dropping in Canada, with the currency strengthening and the “iPod Tax” having been shot down by the courts. Meanwhiile the cheaper iPods have steadily gained features and performance.
In early December 2004, a 20Gb iPod for CAD $429, with no colour screen, no photo cabaility, and no video. Now its equivalent is 30Gb with all those capabilites, selling for $379.
A similar price drop + capability gain is true for the 60Gb iPod at $499 today, where it used to cost over $700!
Jeez, do a little research, eh?
I agree with the above comments. If this guy is gonna write about the iPod he should learn a little about it first. It would have taken VERY little homework to find out all the prices of iPods to date and what the video playback capabilities of the iPod with Video are.
A lot of these pundits get the DRM limitation side of things wrong. They know that somehow you can only play some things on an iPod and assume that that applies to everything. Put at it’s simplest, the main things that iPods won’t play are WMA files and DRMed files that don’t utilize Fairplay. Other than that, they support a heck of a lot of open standard formats.
Yes he is From canada as he mentions that he’s from the Star Pheonix (Canada), This is actually my local paper in Saskatoon and I’m very suprised that somebody mentions it as we are a city of only 220,000 people.
Jack A: Don’t get me wrong, I’m an iPod owner…but as far as supporting open standards, other devices typically support many more codecs than the iPod.
Eric, you’re falling into a trap – which additional codecs are required (besides perhaps WMA)?? Are you talking about Ogg Vorbis? Yea, that should be there.
However, I think iPods support enough codecs for the masses to be happy. It’s only the geeks who get their knickers in a knot because others aren’t supported.
(remembering too many choices will bewilder and hinder, not help the consumer – and they’re probably bordering on that already.)
My 5c.
The most costly ipod yet?!?!
I remember my first iPod – only 50KB of space and cost $566,943.46 and could hold only the first notes of the Beatles song “She Loves you Ya, Ya…”. Never could hold that last Ya.
And the battery lasted 30 seconds was as big as the 12 volt in my 1962 Chevrolet.
Fantastic ipod, ive just had problems with my ones. It got a dead pixel, so i replaced it, but my replacement ipod had one aswell. My apple store wasn’t very happy so they just gave me my money back. Ive had some bad luck. Ah well.
Time to go to a different store and get another one!
I just got a video ipod its working great so far except when I try to put videos on it it outs the video on but no sound. Ive tried this with plenty of different videos, movies,and clips. Does someone know how to fix this?
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