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From: geoff on 5 May 2008 23:43 Mike Rivers wrote: > geoff wrote: >> It always amuses me when the next greatest memory technology is >> invented and the technology 'journalists' say that now we will be >> able to store 10 billion songs on our 'ipods'. > > It annoys me when the only disk drives you can buy conveniently are so > large that I'd hate to lose that much data when the drive fails. I > know I can always just use 20% of a 500 GB disk and call it full, but > life's not like that. You don't need to lose the data. The drives are so cheap you get a second one and mirror the data ! > > I just got an announcement of a class action lawsuit against Creative > Labs. Someone claimed that because a real gigabyte is 2^30 rather than > 10^9, users were cheated out of approximately 7% of the capacity of > the disk and couldn't store as many songs on their Jukebox players as > claimed. His songs may have been bigger than 'standard songs " ! geoff
From: Romeo Rondeau on 6 May 2008 00:07 geoff wrote: > Romeo Rondeau wrote: >> You don't buy an iPod for quality, you buy it for convenience. If you >> want quality buy something that was designed for it. > > But everything with an 'i' is quality..... > > geoff I'm not sure where you get this from, even tongue in cheek, NO ONE has ever said that having an "i" is quality :-) Even the "pod" part is really stupid since they are all square. I have an iPod video (5g 30g), someone gave it to me... it actually doesn't sound bad at all, depending on what I put into it. I beats the hell out of a cassette player, is way smaller than a CD player and hold a hell of a lot more music. It only has a 30 gig harddrive. I mostly keep classic rock and pop in it, along with whatever videos I'm into at the moment (watched all the Fawlty Towers recently on it as a matter of fact... I'm a sucker for those old british comedies they used to show on PBS) It's quite listenable and watchable, but it all depends on what you put in it. It still plays PCM if you want better than mp3 sound quality, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having all of the songs you own in a convenient playback device. And that is the purpose of the iPod, so let's not assign a new purpose for the device and then complain when it falls short. It is what it is. Now, back to my iPod to watch "Open All Hours" :-)
From: geoff on 6 May 2008 01:06 Romeo Rondeau wrote: > geoff wrote: >> Romeo Rondeau wrote: >>> You don't buy an iPod for quality, you buy it for convenience. If >>> you want quality buy something that was designed for it. >> >> But everything with an 'i' is quality..... >> >> geoff > > I'm not sure where you get this from, even tongue in cheek, NO ONE has > ever said that having an "i" is quality :-) Even the "pod" part is > really stupid since they are all square. I have an iPod video (5g > 30g), someone gave it to me... it actually doesn't sound bad at all, > depending on what I put into it. I beats the hell out of a cassette > player, is way smaller than a CD player and hold a hell of a lot more > music. It only has a 30 gig harddrive. I mostly keep classic rock and > pop in it, along with whatever videos I'm into at the moment (watched > all the Fawlty Towers recently on it as a matter of fact... I'm a > sucker for those old british comedies they used to show on PBS) It's > quite listenable and watchable, but it all depends on what you put in > it. It still plays PCM if you want better than mp3 sound quality, but > that kind of defeats the purpose of having all of the songs you own > in a convenient playback device. And that is the purpose of the iPod, > so let's not assign a new purpose for the device and then complain > when it falls short. It is what it is. Now, back to my iPod to watch > "Open All Hours" :-)
From: geoff on 6 May 2008 01:09 Romeo Rondeau wrote: > geoff wrote: >> Romeo Rondeau wrote: >>> You don't buy an iPod for quality, you buy it for convenience. If >>> you want quality buy something that was designed for it. >> >> But everything with an 'i' is quality..... >> >> geoff > > I'm not sure where you get this from, even tongue in cheek, NO ONE has > ever said that having an "i" is quality :-) Apple sort of imply that anything other than Apple is 'lower' quality, so it's a relative thing. >. And that is the purpose of the iPod, > so let's not assign a new purpose for the device and then complain > when it falls short. It is what it is. Now, back to my iPod to watch > "Open All Hours" :-) We get a sat channel called UKTV here - repeats of classic Brit comedies, and more recent classics like Green Wing. But haven't seen Aud Wiedersen Pet for a while.... geoff
From: Mr.T on 6 May 2008 01:52
"geoff" <geoff(a)nospam-paf.co.nz> wrote in message news:IqidnYMOYaXIdYLVnZ2dnUVZ_tqtnZ2d(a)giganews.com... > > Apple sort of imply that anything other than Apple is 'lower' quality, Of course they do, so does every other manufacturer. It's called marketing. MrT. |