Re: What You Need to Know about iPod Movies

John in detroit <blank@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:n0wNi.11357$JD.1592
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> SamSez wrote:
>> some loony whose name I won't proliferate wrote:
>> 
>>>   iPod devices that are equipped with video players must have the
>>> movies from their original format converted to one that can be read
>>> and played by the iPod movie player system...
>> 
>> 
>> point being -- you think everyone is an idiot?
> 
> Point being that they only work with THEIR format, if you can not 
> convert the movie for whatever reason, the device is useless.
> 
> Where as several other devices are able to play movies in MANY formats 
> so if you can't convert... Who cares.

Sorry, but that's another fiction.  Yes, the ipod only plays certain mpeg 
formats -- but so does my dvd player.  And there's freeware to sup****t 
both.