How long does an ipod video 30 gb battery last untill I have to get the battery replaced?
usually between 1 and 3 years
Are you able to put mp4's on your iPod Video without ruining it?
You can convert them using cucusoft ipod converter suite you can get a copy from here http://www.ipod-vibez.com/products.html they have a list of ipod sites too you can use for good movies and music for you ipod
I have and Avi file that I need to convert to iPod. I have tried Jodix, but the file doesn't work there. The others I have tried either only do the first few minutes or put a huge watermark over the video. Please help.
It is in perfect condition and has 700 songs and over 20 hours of video if the buyer would want that.
List it for $10. Anything more for an Ipod is too expensive.
I am going to buy one,I dont know which one,but is definitely going to be black,white is not my color and it would stain too easily,either a 30 or 60 gig, I think it will be a 60 gig because that is 30 gigs more for 100 bucks. I am a gaming dude and I play all types of mini games and homebrew games that other people make that are on the internet.Anyway you dont care about that.I have played my uncles 4gig ipod mini and it has one cool game on it called parachute where you shoot down helicopters and paratroopers from the helis.You probably dont care about that either.Just please tell me if it has games,what they are, and what they are like.Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ummm, the exact same as the ipod nano. Solitare, music game, weird game you were talking about and brick.
I need to get an iPod video 30 gb...where can I get one without having to order it online?
And do Apple stores still keep them in stock?
Thank you!
You might not find these any more in the stores as a new item because the 80gb has become the most common. If you find a 30gb, it is more likely to be used or refurbished.
Unless a store has some old inventory, you might not find a new one.
the new genius feature where it tell s you songs that go well together? can i get that on my ipod video 30 gb????
lol no
Since they stopped selling Scrubs epsidoes via iTunes, what are some ways to get Scrubs episodes? I don't care if you have to pay or you don't. Is it possible to get episodes from the Season DVDs and transfer from your computer to the iPod? Can you get most if not all the episodes from bittorrents(if so, what is the best bittorrent?)? All help is appreciated.
I suppose you could get torrents off btjunkie.org and then leech download off others using the download program azureus vuze (thats what I use) and it will be completely free. I havent checked this out so have a look for yourself. If the file is not in .mp4 format you will have to convert it to make it compatible with your iPod. I use Videora iPod converter which is completely free. I think it is a great program and highly recommend it. Once you have converted it just move the file into your iTunes and its done.
Im not talking about the bullshit that they tell you saying its 14 hours, how long does the battery really last on a single charge?
yeah apparently it's 14 hours for non-stop music only, with stuff like the backlight off, sound check off etc. And it's aobut 3 hours non-stop video. Keeping in mind that you give or take a few figures.
I want to be able to pick what operating system i want to run. so when i start up my ipod i can pick the apple operating system or rock box (or linux) i also want to continue using itunes. the only reason i want these is so i can play game boy games on my ipod
Im Tellin you.....dont F with all those 3rd party "iPod Boosters" Ive tried both. You have to download so many interfaces and things....Its better to leave your iPod the way it is...
This is a review of the iPod 30GB white kinda long sorry.
As a Jobsian supplicant and an Apple acolyte, I really, really want to love the iPad. No one on Earth has made me buy more stuff I don’t need with money I don’t have than Steve Jobs. He’s my hero. One writer who came to visit me in my home office looked around and observed, “It looks like Steve Jobs threw up in here.” It does. There are three MacBooks, two MacBook Pros, one Mac Pro, several 30″ Apple monitors, an Airport, dozens of iPods from every generation, a couple of iPod Touches, plus my old and my new iPhone 3Gs. Apple, Apple everywhere and only one lonely PC in sight. (I use the PC so I can feel the pain and suffering of the other 92% of the computing world, keep up on the latest virus issues and bash the crap out of Windows — which is a full contact sport in my world.)
So, with this insane fanboy intro, you should be expecting a serious love letter to Cupertino about their latest offering, the iPad. Not going to happen.
Behold the iPad. Obviously, no female staffers were consulted while the C-suite was approving the name. iTampon was a huge trending topic on the day the device was introduced, along with “Tampad,” which is also funny, but a little gross. Moving past the name, I am trying to understand what the iPad is and why it needs to exist.
It is beautiful, sexy, Applesque, remarkable, awe-inspiring, extraordinary and every other adjective Apple management could find in the thesaurus. I agree. It’s all those things. But beauty is only skin deep. Let’s have a quick look at what it is and what it isn’t.
The iPad is a very big iPod Touch. If you have extra money to spend, you can add the spotty, woefully inadequate AT&T 3G network. That would make it a cloud-connected device with “anytime” minutes. As in, “any time you can get a signal.” If not, it’s a very big iPod Touch.
Like the iPod Touch, it is a consumption device, not a creation device. It has no camera. This doesn’t seem to be a big deal, except that Video chatting is one of the fastest growing behaviors and the iPad’s “intimate” approach to computing (Steve Jobs’s own words, not mine, so no snickers about feminine protection and intimacy) would seem to leave you wanting for that capability.
It has no USB support. So, you are locked into the convention of connecting to the iTunes/App Store/iBookstore software on your computer to move files to and from the iPad. There will be a huge issue with converting HD video files and many other types of files for use on the device. There are some annoying dongles that can be used to read an SD card (from your camera) or output video to an external monitor (like your TV). Knowing Apple, they will be $30 bucks a pop and, if you’re like me, you’ll lose them constantly.
The screen is 1024×768. This is a 4×3 aspect ratio VGA display. It is not HD compatible. You cannot play HD video on the device. And, 16×9 (HD formatted) video will have to be viewed in a letterbox. Astoundingly, it outputs composite video. It is very possible that your new HDTV does not have a composite video input. However, there is some good news, video from the iPad will look smoking hot on anything with a Cathode Ray Tube display. So don’t throw out your old Sony Trinitron, color tube TV may be coming back!
Like the iPhone family of devices, you cannot play Flash video on an iPad. (Apple hates Adobe, this is unlikely to change.) So you are going to see a lot of blue boxes where streaming video and Flash applications appear on websites. Since 98% of computers with web browsers are Flash enabled, your multi-media web browsing experience will be somewhat sub-optimal, and I’m being kind.
I could go on, but the lack of USB support is the deal breaker. This is not a computer, not an iPod, not a netbook, not a notebook … it is an extension of the Apple ecosystem.
If you need to drink the proverbial Kool-Aid to have an iPhone or even “be” a Mac Person, you’ll need a gallon jug of the stuff to get you to buy into the iPad.
Would it have killed them to put a working USB port in the thing? How about a little iSight camera facing you? And, what were they thinking with the OS? You can only run one app at a time. Like an iPhone or iPod Touch, the OS can only run one app at a time. I’m writing this article on my MacBook Pro, let’s see how many apps I have open: MS Word, Mac Mail, Firefox, Address Book, Daylite, Omnifocus, Adobe Bridge, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Keynote, PowerPoint, Lightroom, Soundtrack Pro, iTunes and the all-important Text Expander running in the background. (Text Expander, from Smile On My Mac Software, is the single most useful app on a Mac and it would be 100 times more useful running on an iPhone or iPod Touch while other programs are running so you could, um … expand your text.) One app at a time? You must be kidding me.
The iPad is an extension of the Apple ecosystem. Once you enter, you will be trapped (lovingly, beautifully, thrillingly) inside. They will give you all of the software for free, a word processor (Pages), a spreadsheet (Numbers), presentation software (Keynote), photo software (iPhoto), email (Mac Mail), etc., all part of the ecosystem. You will buy books, magazines, music, movies, all neatly presented inside a prison of such striking beauty; you may not realize that you are being held captive. This model will be awesome for content creators and publishers. They will be able to charge you and know you paid. (Except for the recorded music industry, which is circling the drain and is not responding to treatment.)
Will the iPad capture the minds of consumers? Will it start new industries? Is it a paradigm shift or a parlor trick? I don’t know. Being a Kindle owner (and lover) and looking at the iPad e-reader app, the iPad wins no contest — oh, wait … no it doesn’t. The backlit screen is not e-ink and your eyes will fatigue like they do on a computer. The battery won’t last anywhere near as long, it’s double to four times the price before you add the data plan. All true, but the iPad is beautiful and the apps are magnificent looking and … hold on, I’ve spilled some blue liquid out of my Kool-Aid cup. Thankfully the iPad is Maxi-sized and has wings for extra protection.
Shelly Palmer is the host of " Digital Life with Shelly Palmer ," a weekly half-hour television show about living and working in a digital world which can be seen on WNBC-TV’s NY Nonstop Tuesdays at 10p Eastern and online, and the host of " MediaBytes ," a daily news show that features insightful commentary and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and entertainment. He is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry-leading advisory and business development firm and the President of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, NY (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards). Mr. Palmer is the author of Television Disrupted: The Transition from Network to Networked TV (2008, York House Press) and the upcoming, Get Digital: Reinventing Yourself and Your Career for the 21st Century Economy (2009, Lake House Press). You can join the MediaBytes mailing list here . Shelly can be reached at shelly@palmer.net For information visit www.shellypalmer.com
What's on the outside
The iPad does indeed feel like an oversized novelty iPhone. In fact, it's a bit of a mix of the first-generation iPhone (aluminum back) and the 3G/3GS models (the back is gently curved, not flat). But it's much bigger and squarer than the iPhone. In fact, the iPad's 1024-by-768-pixel display conforms to the 4:3 aspect ratio common on TV sets before they all became widescreen, flat-panelled HDTV marvels. This might seem like a step backward, since all of your favorite widescreen videos will play with black bars at the top and the bottom. But after holding the iPad, it sort of makes sense. A more elongated device, with a 16:9 aspect ratio, might not feel as well-balanced in the hand as the iPad feels.
Speaking of how the iPad feels in your hand: It's comfortable. The iPad's large bezel (i.e., the screenless border at the edge of the device) is there so that you can grip it without landing your thumbs all over its touch-sensitive screen. At 1.5 pounds, it's more than twice as heavy as Amazon's Kindle 2, and it's larger too (9.56-by-7.4-inches). It remains to be seen if it'll be comfortable to hold this device up with a hand as you're commuting on the bus or train. But in our short time hefting it, it seemed surprisingly thin and light, given its size.
Despite Apple's widely known dislike for physical buttons , the company still hasn't figured out how to completely wipe them from existence. The iPad has the same buttons as the iPhone: an indented Home button directly below the screen, a Sleep/Wake button at the top, a silencer toggle switch, and a volume up/down rocker switch. Other than that, the outside of the device is pretty barren: there's a headphone jack, a tiny internal microphone (located right next to the headphone jack), a speaker, and the same dock connector port that we've come to expect from every mobile device from Apple.
Now, a bit more about that screen. It's based on tried-and-true LCD technology, backlit by an LED and using IPS display technology--in other words, it's basically the same kind of screen that's in the current iMac line . By using an LED backlight, Apple is able to make the iPad screen quite bright, and the IPS technology means that the screen has an extremely wide viewing angle.
Since the screen's narrowest dimension is 768 pixels, you'd think that the iPad would be able to play back 720p high-definition video--and it can. However, it's important to keep in mind that 720p video generally is 1280 pixels wide by 720 pixels high. Such an image would actually be displayed on the iPad at 80 percent size: 1024 pixels wide (the width of the iPad display's longest side) by 576 pixels high. Or, if you double-tapped to zoom in on the image, it would play at the HD resolution, but with the sides of the image cut off. (This is the dark side of Apple using a 4:3 display in an era of 16:9 video content--the screen just doesn't fit the content.)
That all said, the video we played--clips of movies ("Star Trek" and "Up") and TV Shows ("30 Rock")--looked great. Big and beautiful, with vibrant colors and impressive viewing angles.
Tapping around
The iPads Apple showed off on Wednesday came pre-loaded with a bunch of apps. Not only were there new iPad versions of old favorites--Contacts, Music, Videos, Calendar, Safari, iPod--but there were also a bunch of current iPhone apps running in the iPad's app compatibility mode.
To start using the iPad, you have to unlock it. And yes, there's a "slide to unlock" screen just as on the iPhone and iPod touch. On the iPad, you don't need to slide from one end of the larger screen to another--the slide area is right in the middle of the screen, but it's only a couple of inches wide. This screen looks more or less like the iPhone's unlock screen, but there's a new button located just to the right of the slide-to-unlock space. Tap this button and you'll activate the iPad's built-in slideshow mode. Clearly Apple has designed this feature in anticipation of the iPad being placed in a position of prominence in living rooms everywhere, because the slideshow turns the iPad into a dynamic digital photo frame. (And yes, the iPad is still locked while it's displaying the slideshow--press the home button and the familiar slide-to-clock interface will reappear.)
Once you unlock the iPad, you'll find yourself at the home screen. It's a lot like the iPhone's, though it's not plain black anymore--you can place a wallpaper image behind the app icons. At the bottom of the screen is space for six (versus four on the iPhone) of your favorite apps, sitting on a transparent glass tray just like the one you'll find in Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard.
We found the home screen a little bit weird, though. Despite the size of the iPad's screen, you can only place four app icons on each row of the home screen. The result is an incredibly spaced-out icon grid. And it's somewhat disappointing that this new device, which generally seems to take great advantage of its large screen, doesn't really do anything different when it comes to the home screen. It's like a big, spaced-out version of the iPhone home screen (and somewhat reminiscent of the Nexus One and other Android-based devices).
Each of the iPhone apps Apple has been revised for the iPad feature more depth, graphical richness, and complexity than its predecessor. Take Safari, which on the iPad is an amalgam of the iPhone and Mac versions of Apple's browser. Safari on the iPad loads pages extremely fast, and they look great. Double-tapping zooms in just as you'd get on an iPhone, and panning around with your finger is smooth. But up at the top of the screen is a single toolbar featuring forward and back buttons, access to bookmarks, and more. Tap on the Windows button, and the browser window is replaced with a screen showing a tiled view of nine pages. At various points you'll discover the existence of a Bookmarks Toolbar, just as in the Mac version of Safari. And tapping on the Bookmarks icon doesn't take you to a separate list of bookmarks as it does on the iPhone--instead, a floating bookmarks window appears right over where you tapped.
Mail, too, brings to mind aspects of both the iPhone and the Mac. When viewed in landscape orientation, the iPad Mail app is segmented into separate panes like Mail on the Mac: a list of messages on the left side, and a view of the currently-selected message on the right. In portrait mode, however, it looks very similar to the view you get when reading a single message in the iPhone's Mail client--the Inbox listing is then relegated to a pop-up pane that appears when you tap the Inbox control in the top left. In both cases, the message-list view is the same familiar style we've become accustomed to on the iPhone.
While the iPad doesn't have a built-in camera, it does have a slightly revised Photos application that lets you sort through stacks of your photos (based on albums or, if you're syncing with iPhoto, Events, Places, and Faces). You can quickly peek at the contents of any of those stacks by using the pinch gesture, which spreads out the photos in the stack to let you glance at thumbnails of all of them. Release the pinch and those thumbnails quickly snap back into the pile.
Like the iPod touch, the iPad separates music and video playback into separate apps. The iPod app looks much more like the Mac version of iTunes than the iPhone version. There's a controller at the top with play, next, and previous buttons, a slider to control where you are within the track, and a volume slider. On the left side there's even a source list, letting you choose between music, podcast, and audiobooks, and playlists. On the right side, you can view tracks and select what you want to play.
The graphic richness of many of the iPad apps was striking. Both the Calendar and Contacts app feel like you're peering into a physical object--a dayplanner and address book, respectively. And the extra screen space means that the Calendar is quite versatile, displaying two views at once or showing you the week at a glance. It's much prettier than iCal, that's for sure. Even Notes has gotten a bit of a spruce-up, with a faux leather border, extra marbled texture on the title bar, and an index card list of all your current notes.
We tried typing by using the iPad's virtual keyboard in both the Mail and Notes apps. It's hard to judge the experience after only a few minutes, but we have some reservations. Unless you've got large hands, you won't be able to type by holding the iPad with two hands and tapping with your thumbs--the device is fairly wide. We weren't able to test out the method Steve Jobs seems to prefer, which is to plop the thing in your lap and type on it that way. We were able to set the iPad on a table and type on it in widescreen mode, and managed to write a sentence that bore no resemblance to what we thought we were typing. But it takes time to adapt to any new input device--think back to how odd the iPhone's on-screen keyboard felt when it debuted in 2007--and it's possible that with a little practice, typing on the iPad will be as easy or easier than typing on the iPhone. While the larger size of the keyboard seems promising, the layout is still slightly smaller than a MacBook's full-size keyboard. It felt a bit cramped, like a keyboard that you might find on one of the netbooks Steve Jobs seems to dislike so much. But we have to reserve judgment until we spend more time with the device.
We also got a chance to play with an app making its debut on the iPad-- iBooks . Combined with Apple's new iBookstore, iBooks is Apple's answer to the Kindle/Nook/insert other e-book reader name here--you'll be able to purchase and download books to the iPad and read them using the iBooks app. Book pages have a depth to them, with shadows that mimic the curve of pages protruding from the spine and more. The text was clear and the spacing between lines was wide enough that it seems like it will be comfortable for extending reading (although, for some reason, all the text was justified to stretch across the whole screen). There were also two buttons in the upper-right corner when reading a book. One brings up a menu that lets you increase or decrease the font size of your text as well as choose from several different display fonts. The other button, a Spotlight-like magnifying glass that's theoretically meant for initiating search capabilities, wasn't working on the units we tested. You navigate through pages by tapping on the left or right side of the screen, or can drag your finger as if turning a page on a real book to 'flip' from one page to the next.
The information was gathered by Digital Life America (SRG's independent trend study of the digital consumer), and is based on a survey of 1200 U.S. consumers aged 12 and older.
SRG also notes that, according to its research, Apple's iPad/iSlate/iWhatever could significantly increase Apple's customer base . A visual profile of the "very interested" consumers shows that:
A 50-50 gender split exists -- both males and females are interested in the tablet. Average age is 34 years old--significantly older than early iPod and iPhone buyers. About 58 percent of "very interested" consumers are over the age of 30, and 18 percent are over the age of 50. About 75 percent of potential buyers already own laptops, suggesting that people are not looking to buy a tablet as a laptop replacement. Fifty percent own smartphones. Almost half of the "very interested" consumers do not own an iPhone or an iPod, which suggests a dramatic increase in Apple's market. They are media-savvy--82 percent watched a short video online in the last month; 50 percent streamed an online television show in the last month; and, among those with video iPods, 61 percent have watched a movie on the iPod (as compared to a 46 percent average among people owning video iPods). So perhaps we're right when we say content will be key . Is the e-book market as big as we suspect? Only 28 percent of "very interested" consumers read an e-book in the past month.Well, it's probably not surprising that a lot of people will be disappointed if Apple doe
by Romeo Bauer
The iPods have been a market hit since their launching in 2001. With the appearance of the new iPod video on the market in 2005, the iPod became even more popular, as it achieved high umbers in sales and an increased interest from the public. The sales of the iPod video were, in general, better than the expectations. Considering the fact that the new product brought, indeed, something new to the market, which was never tested before and the customers were used to the idea that iPod stands for music and, in a smaller part, it stands for photos, the sales surprised the producers just like the product surprised the customers and the users.
Basically, the iPod video present 2 variants of the device: the 30 GB model and the 60 GB one, which both play QVGA H. 264 videos. Over the last holiday season, the income were very high, as people seamed to be more interested in purchasing such an item before taking the summer vacation. Due to this fact, the new iPod video turned out to be a great choice of spending the time during the holiday. In fact, the last holiday season brought a 30 % increase of the sales, which is a consistent amount.
Even more, the new iPod video turned out to be an excellent Christmas present, as the income indicate the fact that the income of the iPods increased significantly before this important religious holiday. Another income hit in the history of the iPods was the Apple iPod + hp, which was launched in the year 2004. In the first months of 2006, Apple reported income of 565 million dollars, which was the highest number in the company?s history. In fact, Apple managed to ship 6, 16 million iPods during the first months of 2005, meaning a 66 % increase over the same period of time in 2004.
The new range of iPods are supposed to be even more improved and have a new variety of features and new accessories, which will increase even more the popularity of these products. After the famous exposition called Macworld, which was held on the 10th of January 2006, the official speakers reported sales over 42 million dollars, which included a part of 14 million dollars, gained in the first quarter of the year. With even more expectations in sales for the future, the engineer team of Apple is focusing even now in producing a sixth generation of even more optimized iPods.
Till the appearance on the market of the iPod video, the best selling product of the iPod series was the iPod nano, which had great results since the launching. The studies and researches show the fact that most of the part of the consumers want and cushy personalization of their video content, meaning calibre and inexpensive solutions that satisfy their needs. IPod video brought, at its launching, a new set of features that were about to change the perception that people had about this small, yet powerful device.
With a memory that could now include a play list of 15, 000 songs and up to 150 of hours full with videos and movies, the new iPod was an innovative new product and the market embraced its originality and new and exiting features.
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