All New iPods by Daniel Dwase
The iPod While the company failed to launch the rumoured touch screen iPod, wireless-capable iPod or iPod phone, it did produce significant updates to its market-leading media player. The new iPods offer larger capacities (30GB, £189; 80GB, £259), 60 per cent brighter screens (which can be set... A new range of accessories for the iPod nano include lanyard headphones (£25), an armband (£19), iPod nano Dock (£19), and an iPod USB power adaptor (£19). ... Optional accessories include: Universal Dock (£25), iPod AV cable (£15), iPod Camera Connector (£19) and a new and small iPod USB power...

What Apple Could Learn from Sony by Daniel Dwase
Playing video isn’t the strong suit of either Apple’s new iPod or Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP). The iPod is primarily a music player, and the PSP is primarily a video-game system. But both play video as well, so it may be beneficial to compare the two, to see what (if anything) Apple can... While the easiest way to get video onto your iPod is to buy and download music videos and short movies from the iTunes Music Store, you can also move your own video content, either with QuickTime Pro or with a utility such as the open-source Handbrake (handbrake.m0k.org) or Splasm Software’s...

Comparing iPod and MP3 Players - Is There A Difference? by Mike Singh
According to the latest market studies, the iPod has sold over 1.5 million units as compared to the other MP3 players. The iPod video 30gb holds over 15,000 songs, 25,000 photos, or 150 hours of video with a battery life of 14 hours for music, and two hours for videos. ... Additionally, the iPod video and audio formats can sometimes cause problems with people who like to use certain types of media formats. ... The iPod is the most popular MP3 player out there. ... Apple uses a few exclusive types of video and audio formats, like the AAC-encoded files, because they are Apple where other...

iPod Reaches One Million Video Downloads and Counting by Damian Julien
Fifth-generation video iPod owners have tapped a huge, legal download market. According to the AppleInsider site, video iPod owners have passed the one million download mark since the service became available on October 12. This is on the heels of the news that I reported recently in another... While we have apps like Pocket TV for our MPEG playback, video iPod owners are laughing with the ease of use afforded by iTunes. ... Pocket PC users aren't slackers when it comes to their video playback, either.

Games, Movies and More in iTunes 7 by Daniel Dwase
Apple has updated iTunes, ushering in the seventh generation of its popular digital media-management software. iTunes 7 offers a host of features seemingly inspired by user requests, including true –and automated – gapless playback, which also extends to the burning of albums from iTunes to a CD. ... When the iPod is connected to a machine authorised to use music from your collection, but that doesn’t have all the music you own installed on it, iTunes will automatically suck the songs from your iPod and add them to the music library.

Eyebud 800 iPod Virtual Reality Display Product Review by Lance Winslow
You have heard of the custom earphone system for iPod called the earbud right? Well, now there is an Eyebud accessory too. That is correct and it is called the Eyebud 800 by eMagin Corporation. The Eyebud is a virtual reality display system with a little video which will be used for podcasting... The screen is very small but delivers high resolution and can plug into any video-capable iPod or video player. ... The Virtual Reality Super iPod Display has now made its debut and the iPod will never be the same.

Mp3 Players Take the Reins by Valerie T
It first started with the cumbersome record player and turned into mp3 players as big as your thumb. A growing trend today seems to be the music player industry. It needs to be small and portable, yet hold 25,000 songs. It also must be fashionable. God forbid that you have last month's model... Although the iPod is not the only mp3 player and more in the market, they are the ones the kids cry for. ... Just as designer brands exist for clothing and the such, the iPod is the designer brand for the mp3 player.

iPod - A Changing World by Jacco Noordhuizen
I like talking about new inventions and what to do to our lives. Today I would like to focus on the iPod from Apple. First there was the cassette Walkman, then the cd Walkman, mini disk and now the iPod. The iPod is a music player just like the Walkman, but instead of cassettes it uses a hard... That in turn basically means that you can have your music collection on you where ever you go, at a party, in your car, at work etc etc … Now with the iPod Video models you basically your iPod acts as a portable video player as well.

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... The iPod plays not only Apple's proprietary QuickTime video format, but the newer Mpeg 4 video format which offers a much higher compression rate (and smaller video file sizes) than previous formats. ... ** Google Video Maturing ** Several months ago I reported that Google launched a video service...

iPod: Adventures in Entertainment by Christine Peppler
There are still millions of people who don't yet own an iPod and there are many who have never experienced the phenomena known as iPod who will debate the purchase of one for somebody they love. For the uninitiated, it often seems that there is a lot of excitement over something that at first... iPod can now store up to 25,000 photos and 150 hours of video. ... In the home, iPod can even eliminate all of the old stereo components when used with the iPod Hi-Fi. ... Will iPod eventually offer Nintendo Games, videoconferencing, the ability to download entire movies, or access to satellite radio?