I have about $70 saved up and have realized two things I need in my life:
A new music player ( my CD/radio in my kitchen is sporatic in the cd playing and needs to be replaced. If I am going to do this, I might as well downsize and get me one of them Ipod dohickies ( of which I know zero about or where to start.)
Buy now or wait until after Xmas? I have no problems with refurbished ones, but I need the entire kit and caboodlygoodness. ( Ipod, speakers, car thingie and all the other basics.)
However, I’ve lived with the CD problem for over a year and can continue as I just found out that there is a Monty Python DVD set of 16 discs that are calling my name. I can probably get the entire set for about $75 locally or $55 via Amazon, but it isn’t the whole set that I’ve found.
What should I do?
I have the entire Monty Python set, If you’re anywhere clse to Madison you can borrow it.
I too have been thinking about an IPod or an MP3 player,
That’s the choice I would go with. I found the origonal Python series just didn’t wear that well with time – a lot of the humor is lost when the surprise factor is gone.
Or, the DVDs. They’re unlikely to change in the near future. I bought my 20-gig iPod last year or a year and a half ago. I haven’t filled it up yet, and I’m not likely to use the newest gadgets on the current models. But some people want the latest and greatest gadgets. If you’re one of those, then get the DVDs first and then get the latest iPod later.
I have both an iPod and the complete Monty Python’s Flying Circus on DVD. If I had to give up one, it’d definitely be the DVDs. I can go months without watching an episode of Flying Circus but I use my iPod every single day.
If you’re the sort to be interested in the Compleat Python on DVD, you’re probably also the sort who’s already got a personal video jukebox of favorite highlights in your head. (“Mr. de Bakey’s free, but he’s a little bit conciliatory… Ah, yes. Try Mr. Barnard, Room 12.”)
If you are one of those folks who lives with earphones on, get the iPod. Iif not, get Monty.
If you just like background music in the kitchen, the iPod is n inconvenient way to accomplish that ; you’ve gotta carry it around, have wires in your ears, etc.
I got an 30 GB iPod last Christmas thinking it would be nice to wear on walks or in between classes when I have an hour or three to kill.
My iPod has become very important to me. I really, really would not want to be without it. I hate to admit it, but there are three things I never leave home without - my wallet, my cell phone, and my iPod.
You can hook it up to external speakers at home (I hook it up to the wall mounted stereo in my bathroom and out home stereo system with a cable) and I even bought a cable to hook it up to my car stereo - no more switching CDs anymore, I just make playlists and can let it go forever. Every single piece of music I own (and many of my DVD movies) are on my iPod - I am never without something to do while waiting.
If you get one of the video iPods, then if you get the DVDs later, you can transfer them to it. Best of both worlds.
I say if all you’d use the Ipod for is playing music in your kitchen, get a cheap CD player and the DVDs. If you’d like to have your music with you other places though, get the iPod.
For specific iPod recommendations, you’ll have to provide more information about what you hope to do with it.
Well, one issue to consider is that $70 isn’t likely to get you an iPod + car stereo adaptor + case, even refurbished. Plus, if you get a used, rather than a new iPod, you may be looking at a battery replacement soon ($60 all by itself).
The low-end flash memory ones (the iPod “Shuffle”) are at about the right price range, but in my opinion, the shuffle makes a lousy “first” iPod–it’s very inflexible, you can’t browse on it, and it doesn’t hold a whole lot. It’s a great supplment to a larger, browsable one, but not so good on it’s own.
The Nano, starting at $150 new, is where I’d look currently; it’s the smallest iPod with a screen. Car Adaptors run about $15. Cases about the same if you’re not picky, or you can make one pretty easily.
There are also non-Apple MP3 players, but with Apple holding 75% or so of the market, and the largest music store, I would go with a “real” iPod the first time; it limits what you have to know. (There are other threads comparing iPods to non-Apple players if you search).
ME: I’d go for the Monty Python DVDs.
SOMEONE ELSE: No, you wouldn’t.
ME: Oh, yes I would.
SOMEONE ELSE: Wouldn’t. Not. Negatory. Nix. Liar, liar, pants on fire.
ME: Hey, this isn’t a proper argument. This is just simpleminded contradictions and name-calling.
SOMEONE ELSE: Sorry, time’s up. I’m not allowed to argue any more.