They’re so sexy… i want one. But I haven’t 400 dollars to spend on one.
I just found out about them a few minutes ago when I woke up. I am now downloading iTunes 6. But why would I want a video iPod? I cannot watch it when I drive. When I am home I would prefer to watch video on my large-screen computer.
I do not understand who will buy these things.
They look cool however.
Not everybody in the world commutes by car.
True dat, yo. Plus, I enjoy listening to TV’s or movies, sometimes. Granted, usually only with episodes I’ve seen a hundred times before, but it’s still gives me something to listen to on three hour car trips I go on sometimes. (not that I was somehow using a video iPod before they came out, I would rip DVD’s and encode them to play on my PDA, which then had it’s audio out go into my car stereo’s AUX in, soI got Futurama comin through my car speakers.)
Oh, I’m sure I’ll get one. Just can’t sway away from these toys.
But these are just the new iPods, they’re at the same price points as the previous iPods, they’re thinner but otherwise of the same dimensions of the previous iPods, they have a larger screen than the old iPods, they have all the functionality of the old iPods PLUS they can play video as a bonus (on an attached TV as well as on the iPods screen).
The people who will buy this are the same people who have been buying iPods all along. It is the iPod, it’s just it can now play video too. What’s not to like?
OB
AND, the smaller version is 30GB, whereas the 4G small one was 20GB for the same price.
I ordered mine within a few hours of the announcement yesterday, as soon as I got home from my classes.
If I use the video portion, it will be when I am on the elliptical machine when I go to the gym. It’s just about perfectly suited for that.
I don’t know as I’ll be getting one, but what they’re doing is quite appealing. You can download episodes of popular television shows for $1.99. They’re using “Lost” as an example, and by coincidence, I missed “Lost” last night and was vaguely rueful. The notion of being able to download and watch the show is at least somewhat tempting.
Yeah, I could always just get a Tivo, but there isn’t * that * much TV I desperately have to watch…
Big deal. My treo can play video files too, AND I don’t have to recompress them to Quicktime first!
Am I the only one who thinks that the new design looks friggin ugly? It looks like they ran over the 4G model with a steamroller, and there is too much whitespace on the menus, due to them not redesigning them for the bigger screen.
I am a bit miffed that I replaced my old broken ipod about a month ago, but I waited for the last big annoucement to do it, which turned out to be the nano. I wasn’t expecting them to release ANOTHER new model so soon after!
I am willing to bet that all kinds of new conspiracy theories are going to start popping up about why you can only get 2 hours of battery life when watching videos, rather than everyone using their common sense and realizing that when they get 14 hours from audio, it’s because the screen turns off after 10 seconds!
I just learned I’m getting one for my birthday. They had already purchased the 20GB, then when they saw the 30GB for the exact same amount, they returned the 20 and ordered the 30. They didn’t know about the video, just that it held 50% more at the same price.
Now i gotta wait two weeks for my birtrhday 
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I was gonna post a new MPSIMS thread, entitled “I Feel Like I’ve Been Sodomized By A Fruit” - but I wasn’t in the mood and instead am opting to post a few negative observations about the newest iPod.
I realize with the overall praise the iPod receives here @ the SDMB - and with AAPL shares rising another 5% in the past 3 days - I’m probably bucking a few cultural trends, but screw it. I’m gonna be a little biased and not waste time enumerating what I like about my new 60gb iPod. Here are the minor problems, the way I see it:[ul][]No longer Fire-wire compatible. Unless you have USB 2, USB 1 takes 36 hours to upload 11,000 tracks[]iTunes is becoming more and more proprietaryApple is nickel and diming iPod owners into buying more accessories that used to come with earlier models under the logic that "the technology of the iPods gets better and better, but the price doesn’t go up, so instead of getting adapters and a charger, you’re getting a better product."[]The new black model scratches when you literally breathe on it. I have normal lengthed nails and my fingers aren’t that rough or callousy, yet the area around the wheel is scratched really bad after a week of use.[/ul]
I just ordered one last night. It’s my graduation/first job present to myself.
Robin
I had a pop-up ad this morning saying that I had won a video iPod, but I didn’t click on it. Does that count?
I hear it scratches the same as the older models, but the black makes them show up easier.
Dammit. Now you tell me.
Robin
Which Treo? I’ve been thinking about picking one up when my Sprint contract runs out in a few months.
Isn’t that true?
Yes, for the most part, it is. Until Apple’s iPod competitors give them a run for their money, it will remain so. The party’s gonna end soon enough. A pitch like, ‘we’re giving you more for the same price’ was never the norm after the introduction of digital cameras - and definitely doesn’t carry any water in todays business climate. Can you imagine someone paying $1,400 for a video camera, just because the salesman points out “hey, that’s what Canon used to get for their Canovision”