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Video iPod Screen Test
Carl Bialik writes "The Wall Street Journal's Walter S. Mossberg has an interesting review of Apple's video iPod. From the article: 'It's a surprisingly decent video player, with crisp, smooth vivid playback of TV shows, music videos, short films, video podcasts and home videos. We wouldn't want to watch a full-length movie on this iPod -- the screen is just too small. But, for short things like music videos, video podcasts or even hourlong TV shows shortened by stripping out the commercials, as Apple is doing, the new iPod provides a pretty good experience.
However, there are some significant downsides to the video function on this iPod. Some of them are due to Apple's design decisions, while others are due to restrictions imposed by media companies, or to the simple human factors that go into watching video.'"
ipod video is great. my friend just got one. of course everyone is saying what the hell, who would want to watch video on a 2.5" screen, but the question i have, is how the fuck do you plan on taking a normal sized, 30" tv on a plane, train, or in a car? stop complaining about the screen size and realize the potential. if you travel a lot, if youre a high school student (like myself), its great.
God, I hope not. QuickTime Player is, without exaggeration, the worst video player app I've ever used. It doesn't even work in full screen mode without a paid upgrade.
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Yes I am slightly swayed pro-apple. Only because I have relatively good experience with them. Apple still has it problems like everyone else, but right now (And this could change in a few years) Apple is producing a good product. But they can go down like they did before, or like Gateway, and Dell is starting to now.
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Have you tried to remove a removable device on a PC (say, an USB memory stick)? You need to go to a tiny icon on the task bar, use a contextual menu, and two crazy screens show up with non-intuitive options, etc. Ridiculous.
Bullshit. On Windows, you just unplug the thing when you're done. And on a correctly set up Linux machine, you also just unplug the thing.