Posted on 12/26/2005 8:18:33 PM PST by The South Texan
Excuse the shameless and one once every six months vanity, but this Ipod Nano I got for Christmas Rocks!
I am no old goat (33 Years old), but this thing has to be one of the most amazing pieces of technology I've had in my hand in awhile. Downloaded an old 80's U2 video an the playback is flawless.
I used to be an Apple hater, but this has changed my mind. Go ahead a flame away Apple haters!
Well ...yea.
For what it's worth, I am an old goat, and I think music started going downhill about the time they started making videos to go with it. So there. :-)
I know what you meant. :)
I'm on my fifth pair of earphones. I've purchased the Apple brand (2), Etymotic Research, Shure and now Ultimate Ear.
I only have part of one ear to listen to my iPod cranked up on full and the earphones are incredibly valuable to me.
The Apple brand are terrible when it comes to ear wax problems. Impossible to clean yourself without a very strong vacuum. My audiologist managed to save one pair for me.
The Etymotic Research 6i's are my favorites, but the wires are fragile in the plug and, once broken, can only be disposed of.
The Shure earphones were terrible. They hurt when inserted in the canal and were prone to slipping out. The weight of the earpiece seems an excess. The wires are thick and exceptionally long. Not lightweight as the other brands.
The Ultimate Ears are working out fairly well, so far. Their plug design is better than Etymotic's and the noise reduction seems to be on par.
Well, I think good music lasted about 10 years into the video age (ca. 1991), then started to suck.
Use it to tape phone calls
Now you need the "PINNACLE" software so you can make movies.
cute.
Sounds like some epic poem of yore.
You must be just a semi-old goat, then. ;-)
That's not a nano, that's the full-blown iPod.
You can play videos on nanos and older iPods, but only if you hack them to install Linux:
Younger than most would think (28), most of the music I like was new when I was 5-15 years old.
I'm an Apple lover ... got 5 of 'em. But the Nano is still on my wish list.
I was listening to Bob Seger in my classroom one day after school & a student stopped in to listen, & commented about how cool it was that an old woman would be listening to that....I didn't tell him that I knew all the words long before he was born. :-)
I don't even own one. Or any MP3 player.
As to the price of the battery, I merely used YOUR figure. I'm glad you can get your batteries for less than a $1.25.
It was you who jumped into the conversation with a new iPod owner (not the Nano) who had been told by a salesman at Best Buy that she would have to replace the battery every six months and was inquiring if that were true. I merely gave her the facts... that it might cost her at most $59 every couple years and at least less than $20. Useful information concerning her purchase.
You provided information on a product she didn't buy... on a thread that is not about your product... but that hardly makes me an "iPod zealot."
How do you watch a video on a NANO? Nano does not play video.
I think I'll warm up with iMovie for awhile first ;o)
"How do you watch a video on a NANO? Nano does not play video."
I corrected it in an earlier post. It's not the Nano, it's the video playback one.
"I don't get it. It's a walkman that you put audio files from your computer on right?"
That's it in a nutshell. No CD or tapes with worthless songs and you put your favorites in it through itunes. Simple to use and fantastic sound.
my oldest got one this yr and loves his!
he has dozens of his cd's and a few dvd's on it
already...with memory to add another 30+ dvd's!
what an amazing lil gadget :)
My Chanukah present was a 30GB iPod and I looooooove it! iPod rocks!
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