Re: Storage media sizes exploding

geoff wrote:
> Romeo Rondeau wrote:
>> You don't buy an iPod for quality, you buy it for convenience. If you
>> want quality buy something that was designed for it.
> 
> But everything with an 'i' is quality.....
> 
> geoff 

I'm not sure where you get this from, even tongue in cheek, NO ONE has 
ever said that having an "i" is quality :-) Even the "pod" part is 
really stupid since they are all square. I have an iPod video (5g 30g), 
someone gave it to me... it actually doesn't sound bad at all, depending 
on what I put into it. I beats the hell out of a cassette player, is way 
smaller than a CD player and hold a hell of a lot more music. It only 
has a 30 gig harddrive. I mostly keep classic rock and pop in it, along 
with whatever videos I'm into at the moment (watched all the Fawlty 
Towers recently on it as a matter of fact... I'm a sucker for those old 
british comedies they used to show on PBS) It's quite listenable and 
watchable, but it all depends on what you put in it. It still plays PCM 
if you want better than mp3 sound quality, but that kind of defeats the 
purpose of having all of the songs you own in a convenient playback 
device. And that is the purpose of the iPod, so let's not assign a new 
purpose for the device and then complain when it falls short. It is what 
it is. Now, back to my iPod to watch "Open All Hours" :-)