Apple releases a video iPod

Post by **Canis** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:51 pm

It's a 30 or 60GB thing with video out capability, and MPEG4 and H.264 decoding. $299 and $399 respectively...

The only info from the release event so far: http://www.macrumors.com

Looks good!

Post by **plained** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:57 pm

just mpg 4 eh

well from what i can tell anything from now on, all portable vid is mpg4.

not because of apple .

i gonna get sommy old somehow i guess

Post by **Canis** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:58 pm

They're going to offer TV shows via the iTunes store, and will also offer music videos. I dig being able to get the TV shows. Lets hope they're encoded in good quality.

Post by **plained** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:02 pm

apple are smart.

they alighn themselves with media massives.

just like sony.

apple is not a private club anymore.

maybe some new company'l step in as the cool underdog now .

Post by **Canis** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:04 pm

Their marketshare is growing according to market analysits.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:32 pm

yep guessed that one right.

The new iPod holds up to 15,000 songs, 25,000 photos or over 150 hours of video and is available in a 30GB model for $299 and a 60GB model for $399, with both models available in stunning white or black designs.

“The new iPod is the best music player ever—it's 30 percent thinner and has 50 percent more storage than its predecessor—yet it sells for the same price and plays stunning video on its 2.5-inch color screen,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Because millions of people around the world will buy this new iPod to play music, it will quickly become the most popular portable video player in history.”

The new iPod plays music, audiobooks, audio Podcasts, video Podcasts, home movies, music videos and popular television shows like “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives.” The unrivaled combination of iPod and iTunes® 6 now provides customers with a seamless experience for buying, managing and playing video as well as audio content, including over 2,000 music videos, six short films from the Academy-Award winning Pixar Animation Studios, and five television shows from ABC and Disney Channel, including the immensely popular “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives.”

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:33 pm

i wonder what kind of battery specs they have for these new vid players.

*edit*

The 30GB model features up to 14 hours of battery life for music playback and the 60GB model features up to 20 hours of battery life for music playback.*

oh.

Post by **Iccy (temp)** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:09 pm

plained wrote:just mpg 4 eh

well from what i can tell anything from now on, all portable vid is mpg4.

not because of apple .

i gonna get sommy old somehow i guess

also H.264

I dont know if you are familar with this formate, but its a very high quality and good compression format. I routinly watch shows online that are in H.264 and they are about the same size as divx and the same quality and retain better quality when you blow them up, you dont get that square tile look.

Post by **Canis** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:12 pm

H.264 is the standard that will be used in the new BlueRay and DVD-HD formats. It's cool because its so scalable.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:17 pm

Canis wrote:H.264 is the standard that will be used in the new BlueRay and DVD-HD formats. It's cool because its so scalable.

it's only one of the codecs. the three others, for blu-ray are MPEG4 AVC (high profile), Microsoft's VC-1, and MPEG2.

Post by **Geebs** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:20 pm

Fuck, iTunes 6 already? version 5 was last month

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:22 pm

I liked those creative zen players (the ones that did video and stuff)

I also liked the microsoft spv500 ..... that was a really nice phone.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:23 pm

Geebs wrote:Fuck, iTunes 6 already? version 5 was last month

yerp. only jumping to 6 instead of 5.x because of video, but yer yer. i'm digging the sound of a 30gb...what's this, 5G(?) in black.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:25 pm

Iccy (temp) wrote:
plained wrote:just mpg 4 eh

well from what i can tell anything from now on, all portable vid is mpg4.

not because of apple .

i gonna get sommy old somehow i guess
also H.264

I dont know if you are familar with this formate, but its a very high quality and good compression format. I routinly watch shows online that are in H.264 and they are about the same size as divx and the same quality and retain better quality when you blow them up, you dont get that square tile look.

i do the same (diggnation mostly) and it's a slick codec for sure.

Post by **Geebs** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:33 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
Geebs wrote:Fuck, iTunes 6 already? version 5 was last month
yerp. only jumping to 6 instead of 5.x because of video, but yer yer. i'm digging the sound of a 30gb...what's this, 5G(?) in black.

6G

iTunes 5 fucked something up with my disc burning; doesn't like making CDs out of .sd2 and .wav files. Fortunately I've got the rather nifty waveburner (comes with logic), but still a nuisance. I have suspicions....

Post by **saturn** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:20 pm

oh....this is good news....

*looks at empty wallet*

Post by **Iccy (temp)** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:47 pm

i know im fucked, im going to have to drop back down the 10k mark again.. I been waiting for this for so long, im going to give it a few weeks to see if poeple have problems, then im buying one.

Or maybe ill just buy one cause i cant stand the excitment. lol

Post by **S@M** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:00 am

saturn wrote:oh....this is good news....
*looks at empty wallet*

your an MO, buy two, send me one, and i will speak highly of you years from now.

Post by **simple** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:19 am

they also released an imac, that has a build in remote control. Did you notice the doc for the iPod has a remote. O.o

Post by **shiznit** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:26 am

What's the battery time for playing videos with sound?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:41 am

shiznit wrote:What's the battery time for playing videos with sound?

The 30GB model features up to 14 hours of battery life for music playback and the 60GB model features up to 20 hours of battery life for music playback.*

unknown.

Post by **shiznit** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:05 am

I would image it would eat through the battery at that size, like 1 hour of video per a recharge would really suck.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:12 am

The screen res is too low on this ipod. There are plenty of PDA sized screens with full VGA resolution.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:18 am

you guys are forgetting though that this is an added feature along with 10 more Gigs of space for the same price as last year's non-video 20GB iPod. pretty impressive if you ask me.

Post by **Chupacabra** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:32 am

i dont know much at all about ipods but does anyone think that there are too many versions of ipods out there from a marketing standpoint? i have no idea...just wondering what others think.