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Old 16-05-2006, 14:43
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Originally Posted by sancheeez
Since 99% of the sources I download don't support/offer that format. Since my DVD player doesn't support it. Since DivX/Xvid is by far and away the most popular source available on the internet.

h264 is gaining more support and will doubtless be added to the A2 firmware in good time (the other advantage of the A2 is the almost continuous development of the firmware).

The video on the iPod is OK but doesn't come anywhere close to the A2 and other dedicated PMP's.
By your reasoning Ogg Vorbis is proprietary! A format not being well-supported is not the same as it being proprietary.

Mp3 is well supported, but is a proprietary format the rights to which are owned by Thomson/The Fraunhofer Institute.
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Old 16-05-2006, 15:27
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OK then .... fair do's.

Replace 'proprietary' with 'niche' then.

(The A2 also supports OGG by the way)

The net result is I don't want to waste half my life converting hundreds of perfectly good Xvid and DivX files to some other format just so I can use them on my portable.

I wanted the widest format/codec support I could find.

Along with as much functionality as possible, good support, a DAMN good screen and good battery life.

My old player laster me for years as it was flexible enough to do what I wanted from it. I can see the A2 lasting me a good long time again for the same reasons.
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Old 16-05-2006, 17:11
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Remember if you buy in the states from a shop you need to add 4% (New York rate) of the price for sales tax, but a darn site better than VAT rate!

Also the B&H price list, but you may be able to pick something up cheaper
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...rch&Q=&ci=6506
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Old 18-05-2006, 08:56
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Originally Posted by Moe's tavern
i think the next step for Ipods has to be with DAB built in surely?


No, there are only a handful of counrtries in the world that use DAB, Britain and small parts of Europe really, in Japan and USA it is not used (no transmitters) they're waiting for sattelite or similar technology, so it wouldn't be worth Apple's while to bring out a DAB unit as most of the world doesn't use it!
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Old 04-07-2006, 11:33
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Any news of a new ipod, because I am seriously considering buying a video, but I will wait if there are plans for a new one soon.
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Old 04-07-2006, 13:00
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Hmm i doubt they'll be one untill about september maybe, no news so far, if possible i would hold of if i were you, theres nothing worse than buying something to find out it is being replaced the next week!
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Old 04-07-2006, 17:36
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They just introduced the U2 version of the current video iPod. Surely if there was a new generation of iPod 30gb coming out, they would have held off.
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Old 04-07-2006, 18:17
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If you guys are so worried about forking out money just to find out a new one has come out, why not try eBay? You'd probably get a good deal from it.
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Old 05-07-2006, 10:42
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Originally Posted by jstw
Hmm i doubt they'll be one untill about september maybe, no news so far, if possible i would hold of if i were you, theres nothing worse than buying something to find out it is being replaced the next week!
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
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Old 05-07-2006, 12:30
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Originally Posted by t1mmyb
Yeh I no about that site, i've also mentioned that site before, i think in this topic lol! However if you read it

Special Notes: The iPod has been split over multiple model lines now, so this release log isn't entirely accurate.
I still say September new iPod.
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Old 05-07-2006, 13:04
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I think any 'full video' iPod won't be released until an iTunes Movie Store, which is looking like 2007 now.

After knackering my iPod photo the other day (stone kitchen floor.. harddisk.. ouch), I'm going to replace it with a 5G. I don't think there's any point waiting.
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