rrobbie Posted February 19, 2007 Posted February 19, 2007 hi how goods is ipod? and whats a good price? aslo how do i know that i would be getting fifth generation enhanced version is there a way to tell rang Bing Good Guy and Jb bing quoted $480 GG $475 JB $499 i said but you wont be beaten on price They still said $499 http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml...fromItemId/2332
AndrewW Posted February 19, 2007 Posted February 19, 2007 JB $499 i said but you wont be beaten on price They still said $499http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml...fromItemId/2332 I'm sure one of their many terms and conditions allows them to do this. They are as bad as Hardly Normal and EB Games. Yet another reason to boycott them. Give your money to someone that treats you with respect. Andrew.
MartinX Posted February 19, 2007 Posted February 19, 2007 According to my brother (GG store) there's SFA markup on iPods so you won't see much movement on price. The profit is with the add ons.
ozdoc Posted February 19, 2007 Posted February 19, 2007 For that price I would be personally be looking at the 60 GB Creative Zen Vision:M. Why get lumbered with ITunes and all of it's protection quirks? Zen Vision:M supports many video formats, such as DivX 4 & 5, XviD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG4, WMV9 and Motion-JPEG I use mine (30GB) as an XviD player. Easy to plug in on holidays in hotels etc. It's only major downside is less easily available accessories.
jokiin Posted February 19, 2007 Posted February 19, 2007 aslo how do i know that i would be getting fifth generation enhancedversion is there a way to tell 80gb model is 5th generation
Widescream1503559516 Posted February 19, 2007 Posted February 19, 2007 Er-5.5 generation to be precise
rrobbie Posted February 19, 2007 Author Posted February 19, 2007 For that price I would be personally be looking at the 60 GB Creative Zen Vision:M. Why get lumbered with ITunes and all of it's protection quirks? Zen Vision:M supports many video formats, such as DivX 4 & 5, XviD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG4, WMV9 and Motion-JPEG I use mine (30GB) as an XviD player. Easy to plug in on holidays in hotels etc. It's only major downside is less easily available accessories. i just started using itune for the fist time last week and slowly adding files (i lik ethe fact you can look at album art) and i could use it in the car do have an mp3 reading head unit but now ive got to many cd-rs in my car just like the old cd days i was concerned about the protection but my mate said theres ways around it reason i want an 80g is to also use as a way to back up my many years of getting mp3's ive converted 200 + cds and they just stay in box since i had to pack and move would all my files that ive put into itunes be protected or somthing now without me knowing i dont think ill ever use it for videos as i have a portable dvd player and all my vid files are on my xbmc getting monies for my b'day so id only have to make up the difference
MartinX Posted February 20, 2007 Posted February 20, 2007 Why get lumbered with ITunes and all of it's protection quirks? What protection quirks?
MartinX Posted February 20, 2007 Posted February 20, 2007 would all my files that ive put into itunes be protected or somthing now without me knowing No. Tip: To make things easy should you wish to move files around (p2p networks, a CD full of MP3s for the car etc) make sure iTunes is encoding as MP3 (160 kbps or above) rather than AAC which is the default. AAC is a fine format but only a few players can play it (including the iPod of course), meaning you have to do a transcode to MP3 if you want more universal playing. Save time and rip as MP3.
rrobbie Posted February 20, 2007 Author Posted February 20, 2007 No. Tip: To make things easy should you wish to move files around (p2p networks, a CD full of MP3s for the car etc) make sure iTunes is encoding as MP3 (160 kbps or above) rather than AAC which is the default. AAC is a fine format but only a few players can play it (including the iPod of course), meaning you have to do a transcode to MP3 if you want more universal playing. Save time and rip as MP3. im not using itunes to encode i im using cdtomp3 maker but worried that if i add them to itune will they have that digtal right crap on them i read that u can go from pc to ipod but not ipod to pc is this true? ive ripped all my cd to 320kbps kinda sux now and im thinking of halving that to get more space and ive got some radio drama that ive ripped to 92kbps as it only spoken word and i cant hear much difference but i have noticed that a few songs on cd loose some quality as mp3 as now i cant hear the fingers on guitar strings
Widescream1503559516 Posted February 20, 2007 Posted February 20, 2007 Most current Kenwood and some Pioneer headunits that are iPod compatible (with the adaptor) will play AAC files. Soon as I buy my next car, I'll be ripping out the stock headunit and getting an appropriate Kenwood unit.
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