Do you own an iPod ?

[suckerfree]

I've been loading all these movies on my womans IPOD for her... I remember when I bought my MP3 player I went for something small without video... now I'm a little jealous... she has tons of movies songs and pictures on that thing!

Anybody want to buy a MP3 player?

[Hippie3]

lol
i hear ya, SF
same thing here,
i have a 2 year old 4 gig mini
while she has a brand new 30 gig video pod

[ANON]

According to MacRumor,

The *real* video iPods (the ones out now are nothing more than 4g iPods with a few t*w*e*a*k*s - the old iPods could support video too you just have to tweak the software) will be released before the iPhone.

100gb. Widescreen video. Touchscreen. *drools*

[ANON]

why is it when i type t*w*e*a*k*s without the stars it changes it to T.E.K.?

[Bobcat]

Well.... you guys could get video on your ipods even if it isn't a video version.

http://ipodlinux.org/Main_Page

But apples software is pretty nice as is... Never tried this, but will if I ever get a used (or new) ipod.

For those that do have video, I found a neat download on apple.com in their downloads page. Its called tubesock and it copies youtube videos to your mac, ipod or PSP. Don't know if they have a windows version.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos.../tubesock.html

[ANON]

Here's something that'll work with Windows Machines:

http://www.benjaminstrahs.com/itube.php

[Hippie3]

thx for that link, BC

[lsd child]

ive currently got a 20gb ipod photo...owned it for about a year and the battery died...thank fully i could get a replacement off the net which has double capacity over the standard one and it goes fine now

[Gamera]

I take mine everywhere, and I am basically listening to podcasts constantly in the car now. Its great. I have to drive a fair bit and the radio is just intolerable anymore.

A little off topic, but I am predicting a change in technology down the road, probably in the next year or two. All of the digital content you own will be stored in a massive central database and you'll stream it on demand to whereever you want it.

It has the advantage to me that I'll never scratch or lose or break a CD or DVD, or lose it if my harddrive crashes. I'll always be able to get it streamed to my computer, my satellite radio my satellite TV or what have you wherever I want it. Also It won't clog up my harddrive.

Advantage to copyright holders is that I never have an actual physical copy in my possession so I can't rip it or burn it or share it - just stream it. As far as the entertainment industry is concerned I'm pretty much just "renting" it anyway - its not mine to share. The only thing really holding it back at the moment is bandwidth and that going to be solved in a matter of months.