sophia,

I recieved some $$ for my birthday and am thinking of getting an iPod that plays videos. Does anyone know if there is some sort of hack/way for it to play non-itunes videos, and where I would look for that-- say if I wanted to play fanvids that are .avi?

FWIW, I like ipodifier (PC) to convert ipod videos. It is much more consistent than videoera, IME.

I have a 80G Video and I really like it. I really like the ability to play video podcasts.

I've read in various places that the iPod "classic" has slightly worse sound quality. I'd go with the previous model.

Eek! I just ordered an iPod Classic!

I've got an iPod Classic and the sound quality issues aren't there for 99.9% of the population. Most of those reports on sound quality are coming from the same sorts of folks who will spend hundreds of dollars of a couple of feet of speaker cable. Not your average Joe Consumer.

Huh. Weird. Sounds like a bug introduced with a codec change.

Heijligers suggests that Apple may be able to fix the problem through a firmware update.

Let's hope so.

The first article says many people might not even notice the difference.

x-posty.

My ears are pretty sensitive to minor changes, so I'm wondering if I'd notice....

Oh, good. I didn't want anything to dampen my excitement for my shiny new toy.

I've got an iPod Classic and the sound quality issues aren't there for 99.9% of the population.

This -- in fact, I've seen reviews (umm. somewhere. that probably has a link I didn't save.) saying "we could definitely tell a difference, but only when we used the $400 headphones...." I suspect that the quality loss that comes from ripping/dl'ing at anything other than the very highest-quality far outweighs the diffference between iPods for those of us who aren't ND.

My iPod is in the shop. It stopped working. The in-store repair folks said that the computer recognizes it, but nothing shows up on the screen.

I also had to get a new portable XM receiver because my old one died.

It hasn't been a good month for my electronic music delivery devices.

1080p is better than 1080i. But is it worth the extra cost? If I have no articulated plans to upgrade my DVD system, is it a waste of money to buy now?

I think it is very unlikely you'll ever be able to tell the difference between 1080i and 1080p.

This may be a very stupid question but I just want to make sure I can do something and I'm not going to have much time to fix things if problems arise.

Basically, my friend is getting an iPod so she can have music easily at her wedding. But she doesn't have a computer so I said I could make the playlist she wants and put it on her iPod. What is going to happen when I hook this new iPod that is not mine up to my computer? Will iTunes just recognize it as new and I'll be able to easily put whatever I want on it?

Sorry for being so remedial but, obviously as this is for my friend's WEDDING, I don't want to eff anything up.