“I have to admit that I’ve never been a fan of Apple’s iPod — for reasons too numerous to mention in this story — but Apple has finally added the killer feature to its ubiquitous, market-dominating MP3 player: video. Sure, the company is late to the portable ‘media center’ game, but unlike its competitors, Apple actually got it right. The picture is simply amazing, and it’s opened the doors for independent producers to start dreaming about this new alternative way to distribute their content. While Apple seems focused on making mainstream ‘repurposed’ broadcast network programming its focus, it’s the independent producers who really seem keen on the idea of taking advantage of the platform,” Michelle Alexandria writes for UPI.
Alexandria writes, “George Wood, CEO of Flights of Fantasy Media, has had a tough time distributing his content (through mainstream channels), which includes the Academy Award Winning Documentary Series, ‘Hollywood Goes To War.’ He sees an opportunity in vodcasting (video podcasting) and distributing his programming on iPods and similar services. ‘What I like about vodcasting is that it allows independent producers to self-publish their own syndicated ‘shows,’ and it gives them as well as standard broadcast radio or television programs a new distribution method that goes directly to their target audience,’ said Wood.”
Alexandria writes, “Jennifer Bishop, a program associate at the National Academy of Sciences, said, ‘I just received an iPod Video as an early Christmas present, and I use it to watch video podcasts. My favorite is tuscany.podtravels.tv, which is a frequently updated podcast documenting travels in Tuscany. It is really beautifully filmed. The person doing the filming never intrudes on the scene, even to explain what is going on — there is just a camera there, recording 10 minutes or so of Tuscans going about their activities of olive harvesting, cooking, hog raising, winemaking, or monks singing a mass. It’s wonderful to have this window into another world during my long and uncomfortable subway commute.'”
Full article here.
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So Michelle, Hope your Christmas brings you an ipod.
P.S. You should think about getting an iMac also.
Watch out, its a trap – you won’t be able to subscribe to Napster ; )
So, when does Steve get into the Space Race – for the rest of us?
It’s something that all the Windows users keep writing things about Apple and it’s products on MacDailyNews. They want to be part of the Mac world so bad they can’t stand it.
Careful, the iPod is a villain.
Still would like to hear the supposed ‘numerous’ reasons she’s never been keen on the iPod. My experience is that people who have objections to the iPod mostly don’t understand it, or ahve read too many articles quoting Rob’Krispy Kreme’ Glaser or The evil Gorog from Napster.
The evil Gorog. Sounds like a true hollywood villain.
“Still would like to hear the supposed ‘numerous’ reasons she’s never been keen on the iPod”
– she was probably scared off by all the Apple fans (at least the vocal ones) that constantly ridicule and berate anyone that doesn’t own, or plan to own in the immediate future, every product made by Apple
You got to rememember the people that write “I have to admit that I’ve never been a fan of Apple’s iPod” are Microsoft Windows Brainwashed. It’s just like people that love a Chevy, they think a Ford is crap.
“- she was probably scared off by all the Apple fans (at least the vocal ones) that constantly ridicule and berate anyone”
Where in my post did i berate her? All i said was the people who have reasons not to like Apple’s offerings usually have no experience with them or have been misinformed. Doesnt mean that maybe people just wouldnt like it even if they knew everything about it. Just my experience that when asked to give reasons people like her usually regurgitate FUD or misinformation and educating them a little bit goes a long way to overcoming objections.
Ive found most Mac users to be rather helpful and very cooperative if a person shows a willingness to listen. It’s the morons that come in firing off about how mac users suck that mac users usually smack down on them.
^ Hey well, that’s:
“She was probably scared off by all of the Apple fans (at least the vocal ones) who constantly ridicule and berate anyone who doesn’t own, or plan to own in the immediate future, every product made by Apple.“
Get it correct, PC preacher man.
well well welll,
“- she was probably scared off by all the Apple fans…”
If she’s that easily intimidated from buying something for herself she might need a little professional help.
Hammer,
I did not mean to imply that you have ever been anything but courteous and respectful in your posts. I don’t always agree with your opinions, but I have never been able to fault the way in which you express them. In fact, I have found the Apple community to be very helpful towards others. My rant was directed towards the many posters here in this forum that seem to be less concerned with helping switchers and more concerned with trying to compensate for their low self esteem by putting down others.
my thanks to Drool Tunes for providing an example of a post that attacks the person instead of trying to argue the issue
Kudos to “well” for crying foul about criticism of an individual after he had initiated the “personal” attacks by collectively assaulting Mac users as a whole.
That’s the reasion I’ve been looking for to justify a new iPod!
Watching hog raising!!!!!!!!!!
ipod her i come, hoooo weeeeee
Drool Tunes,
Since you seem to be the grammar nazi around here, I’m surprised that you don’t see the difference between “all [of] the Apple fans that…ridicule and berate” and “all Apple fans ridicule and berate.” If you were able to see the difference, you would have clearly understood that I was not attacking Mac users as a whole (which would include me), but just the ones that happen to ridicule and berate non Apple users.
“she was probably scared off by all the Apple fans (at least the vocal ones)…
Hammer, you missed well’s point, one which should be heeded by MDN and users to this site. I will repeat what I said on another comment…
Perhaps their feedback (on MDN) should be edited as well. My biggest gripe is the blathering of the MAC-zealots (note my name, a devoted MAC-user since 1989!) that (IMHO) might discourage potential switchers away from signing up because of the CULT-status, whether real or perceived. Intelligent discourse and commentary should be welcomed, but this site seems to have become a soapbox Gates-Balmer-Windows-PC (anything NON-Apple) bashing that does little to offer concrete reasons for someone sitting on the fence, a reason to make the switch. Of course the biggest and best reason is what we ALL ALREADY KNOW.
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