Re: Storage media sizes exploding

Romeo Rondeau wrote:
> 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" :-)