Video Bytes From The Web by Jim Edwards
** Handheld Video ** Apple Computers recently announced the addition of a small video screen to its new iPod, the perennial favorite portable MP3 music player. Apple's announcement comes as no surprise to many "expert" market watchers, but their stock did go up about 10% within days of the... That means instead of getting a video player and then searching for content to play on it, users of the new video iPod can easily download and play their favorite videos, TV shows and more from the already hugely popular iTunes service.

Alpine Car Deck Allows iPod Connectivity by Giovanni Woods
You got your iPod, your current favorite gadget of all time. And you also made sure that you have got all these amazing iPod accessories and everything that could come with the iPod - those cool headphones, batteries, cases, iPod speakers… the whole lot. ... The new gadget for your iPod is called the Alpine iDA-X001 and it is the very first of its kind in the auto industry. ... With this new gadget from Alpine, the iPod is not the only portable media gadget that you can plug and play. ... Well, it comes with a $450 price tag and the money is sure going to be well spent, although we have...

News for Pocket PC Video Fanatics by Damian Julien
I'm getting a bit tired of all the iPod coverage in the press recently, including my own iPod versus PDA article recently. This has just been tempered with excellent technology news for the Pocket PC video playback freaks among us. If you've spent most of your waking life waiting for videos to... Jason Cross reported on the ExtremeTech site that their new Radeon X1800 XT video card can quite possibly make ATI the king of the video encoder mountain. ... ATI has introduced GPU-acclerated video transcoding in its latest video card for digital media hounds.

The Hottest Electronic Product in America and Why by John Tucker
If you are a person who reads newspapers, especially the “USA Today,” and the “Wall Street Journal,” you will observe many advertisements for this product, along with hundreds of articles explaining how to use the product . . . If you read the monthly or weekly, news magazines such as;... There is the ipod nano, ipod shuffle, and the Apple ipod.. ... The latest top of the line ipod’s have digital musical video capacity with a two inch (2"0) up to a two an half inch (2.5") colored display. ... The problem with trying to purchase an ipod just a few days before Christmas or New Years and...

Creative Zen Vision - Shall We Take A Look At An Award Winner by Mike Singh
The Creative Zen Vision is Creative Labs' newest addition to their successful line of portable media players. A 30GB video player it plays songs, displays photos, along with video collections. Creative Labs is the well-known C.E.S. award-wining family who, in May of 2006, won the "Red Dot Design... When deciding between a Creative Zen Vision and the iPod Video, the iPod didn't change screen size - reason? ... We cannot look at any MP3 video without comparing it to the iPod versions. ... The iPod is known as the leader in music, not in videos.

The Ultimate Guide to Video iPod by Ian Richardson
Alright. So after all that hype about having a practical way of watching TV and movies while on the go, you have finally gone and bought yourself the new iPod. Now what? Well, let’s see. There are so many options squeezed into one slim, 2.5” LCD screen media center that it’s going to take a lot... Tip #2 – Add Video to the iTunes Library The other way of finding out if your video files are iPod compatible is to add your video to your iTunes library. ... According to Apple’s website, the video specifications of the new iPod are the following: • H.264 video: up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240, 30...

What's In An iPod - And Why Is It So Popular? by Mike Singh
Not only is the iPod popular because of its reception from the public, but also because it was Apple's first and successful attempt at branching out from its iMac products and a reputation of being strictly "computer". Unlike the iPod nano and the iPod shuffle which use flash memory, the iPod is... As of now there are four basic iPod models that you can find on major shopping websites: the iPod shuffle, iPod nano, iPod photo, and the brand new iPod video. ... The iPod's software for the iPod development was not developed in-house for this, but contracted PortalPlayer, who already had the...

How To Download Music From The Computer To An Ipod by James Henry
The Ipod has been a huge revolution in todays society, replacing the walkman and the discman as the most popular method by which people make their music portable. You'd be hard pressed to find someone in most developed nations who didn't have an Ipod in some form, and if you did they'd probably... There is no shame in admitting you have some trouble downloading music from my computer to your Ipod because we all need to go through that first learning curve with a new piece of technology. ... Once you have found the desired file, make sure you choose the Video Ipod/ Sony PSP download option.

Pocket PC and iPod Technology Gap Closing? by Damian Julien
Pocket PC owners, if Microsoft has its way, will hopefully have little to envy of their iPod toting brethren in the near future. According to a TechNewsWorld article, Microsoft brashly announced plans to develop software to combat iPod and iTunes proliferation with their own software, Zune. ... Creative, already floundering against the Apple handheld device phenomenon despite topping the video iPod for the CNET awards will now have to fight for space against Microsoft as well. ... Never mind that Creative partnered with Microsoft to put their software on their Zen Micro and video Zen...

PSP Downloads by Eddie Baker
Having been a big fan of my own psp for quite some time I felt it would be a good idea for some of the newer PSP owners to be introduced to an awesome website that the rest of us know and love. You see, I remember when I first got my psp. I was sooo excited. ... A new digital camera, a digital camcorder, an ipod (at last!) and my poor little psp sat quietly in my cupboard dreaming of its day in the sun. ... Seasons passed and new gadgets were bought. ... Why had nobody told me? ... Until one day, a friend of mine introduced me to a website that brought tears to my eyes.