Video iPods, Apple Video Store

[R1pp3r]

My brother keeps bugging me to buy him an ipod when I go to Taiwan. He is 14 years old, he already got a camera, Nintendo Ds, mp3 player, cell phone (with camera&mp3 player), etc., and now he wants this too, because everyone has one. I don’t see what’s so special about the ipod at all, isn’t it just another status booster for high school kids? I asked why he wanted it and he answered me with like “I don’t know, my friend has one and it’s really cool”, “you can listen to music and watch pictures!” Why would you want to watch pictures on a thing like that? I don’t get it.

[geekbot]

Ctrl-click->Open With...->DiskImageMounter

instead of Disk Utility.

Or command-I and change the "Open With".

[Blanke]

My brother keeps bugging me to buy him an ipod when I go to Taiwan. He is 14 years old, he already got a camera, Nintendo Ds, mp3 player, cell phone (with camera&mp3 player), etc., and now he wants this too, because everyone has one. I don’t see what’s so special about the ipod at all, isn’t it just another status booster for high school kids? I asked why he wanted it and he answered me with like “I don’t know, my friend has one and it’s really cool”, “you can listen to music and watch pictures!” Why would you want to watch pictures on a thing like that? I don’t get it.

Are you taiwanese?

If so, then I just wanted to let you know that I am too.

Rock on

(bad pun intended)

[R1pp3r]

Are you taiwanese?

If so, then I just wanted to let you know that I am too.

Rock on

(bad pun intended)

No. I’m just being forced into marriage after I impregnated one. Anyway, when I was like 14 we didn’t have stuff like this, now everyone are supposed to own them to be hip. Am I the only one who sees that something is wrong here?

[Blanke]

No, I got an mp3 player during Black Friday (whichever day after Thanksgiving) on sale. It works well and I'm satisfied.

Although, society has dubbed the cool factor to be the iPod. Consequently, it's a $300 pricetag. I wouldn't mind having one, but I do mind paying that much for it. I'll survive without it.

On another note, may I inquire as to how that happened and how old you were when it happened? It sounds like you're still a teen?

[R1pp3r]

No, I got an mp3 player during Black Friday (whichever day after Thanksgiving) on sale. It works well and I'm satisfied.

Although, society has dubbed the cool factor to be the iPod. Consequently, it's a $300 pricetag. I wouldn't mind having one, but I do mind paying that much for it. I'll survive without it.

On another note, may I inquire as to how that happened and how old you were when it happened? It sounds like you're still a teen?

No, I’m 23 years old and no this is totally off topic.

[Blanke]

Well, I hope it works out for you.

Anyways,

someone donate to the Blanke-wants-an-iPod foundation

I will give much <3 :wub:

[ZeUs!!]

They're trendy, cute, have a lot of storage for music to listen to and apparently movies to watch, and are smaller than CD players and they can clip onto things

They're fashion statements as well as useful

(I don't really know if they're fashion statements for the guys as much as us girls but they're still cool-looking either way so whatever)

And 25% more likely to get you mugged

[K2Grey]

IMHO ogg is overrated.

OGG is better than LAME mp3 at nearly any bitrate, but once you hit LAME aps (which doesn't take up that much space) it's hardly possible for most people to ABX it on their music equipment.

OGG burns mattery life roughly 33% faster than mp3.

I don't think most mp3 players, if any support ReplayGain and that means you can't normalize OGG volume while mp3 ReplayGain just writes the gain directly on the mp3 and thus player support is not needed. (Not sure about this one)