Gizmodo: video ipod

7 Years of iPod: What You Paid and What You Got

John Herrman — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:00:00 EDT

With yesterday's refresh to Apple's iPod line, it was hard not to feel at least a little deja vu. I've been following new iPod announcements—which often come more than once a year—since 2001, when the first iPod showed up in stores for an astronomical $399. In the iPod's seven years, a sort of price mean has emerged, settling around $249 despite countless claims of "more space," "more battery life," and, err, "more smaller." It's no surprise then that $249 is the price of a new 120GB iPod classic, a few dollars more than a new model 8GB iPod touch and $50 higher than the cost of a 4th Gen 16GB iPod nano. Click the image above for the full keepsake chart. [iPod on Giz]

Unconfirmed: The New iPod Nanos Look Like This?

Jason Chen — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:25:24 EDT

A source tells us that the upcoming iPod Nano revisions will look like this. A fat iPod. We've seen what seems to be the final version of the iPods—which supposedly come in black, silver, maroon, light blue and light green—and not only are they fat, but the screen (which takes up nearly the entire top half) plays back video as well. As always, until we see official documentation from Apple themselves, this is an unconfirmed rumor. Even if the source has given us confirmed Apple leaks before. [9 to 5 Mac and 9 to 5 Mac]

Philips DCP850 Plays DVDs, DiVX, and Your Video iPod

Louis Ramirez — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:53:34 EST

It takes a lot for me to notice a portable DVD player, but Philips' new DCP850 got my attention cause it does something others can't—it can dock and play movies from your video iPod. The folks at iLounge just gave the unit an examination and from the looks of it, the DCP850 means business. It's got an 8.5-inch widescreen display that can be folded back slate-style and in addition to your iPod videos and DVD collection, it can also play DivX and MPG4 files saved on an SD card. Battery will only last you about 2.5 hours, but if you're in the market for a portable DVD player, this $200 player looks pretty tempting. – Louis Ramirez

Philips Docking Entertainment System DCP850 [iLounge]

Brazilian Prostitutes on your iPod

www.gizmodo.com — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:23:39 EST

M.Class, a Brazilian escort firm, allows you to download video "interviews" of their selection of saucy, freshly waxed, Brazilian harlots straight to your iPod. It's a safe way to meet girls in Rio de Janeiro without risking your kidney. Way to use that iPod your wife gave you for Christmas. Make sure you wrap more than just your media player, nothing says "thank you for the iPod" like chlamydia. – Todd Haselton

Prostitutes using the iPod Video to increase turnover [MusicGizmos]

Apple Rumor: 16GB Flash Based Video iPod

blongo3 — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:22:59 EST

Wallstreet analyst, Daniel Amir, is claiming that Apple has a new flash based iPod in the works. This will not be "the" video iPod, but will at least be able to play video, a la the 5G.

Maybe it'll be midsized between the full and the Nano. – Brian Lam

Apple's iPod roadmap said to list three new models for '07 [RegHardware]

Apple Showtime: One More, One More, One More Thing? Please?

Brian Lam — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:07:24 EDT

Steve, you're making me crazy!

Where is my Widescreen Video iPod?

John Legend is singing, and I think he's going to pull it out of the Piano.

Any minute now.

I still need to pee.

Ok, we're done! thanks for tuning in.

ICUITI Video Glasses

Gizloco — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:41:30 EST

Video glasses have never grown past the novelty stage (with consumers at least). But since people will apparently buy anything that is an iPod accessory, manufacturers are trotting out these gadgets and marketing them as a way to watch (mobile) video. Enter the DV920 from ICUITI. The 640 x 480 pixel resolution glasses support both 2D and 3D stereoscopic viewing. Two AA batteries power the 42 virtual screen for 2.5 to 4.5 hours. The glasses themselves weigh only 3.8 oz., but as with any visor, it's a question of comfort. This pair will set you back some $549. No word on whether the pictured model is included.

ICUITI DV920 Video Glasses Shipping - Work with iPod Video [I4U News]

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

Gina Trapani — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:30:00 EST

This week at Lifehacker: Get the most out of your video iPod. Buy the best quality recordable DVDs. Cube warriors, firewall your attention at the office. Fold up a pen and stick it in your wallet. Finally, remedy LCD screen burn-in.

So you got yourself a shiny new video iPod over the holidays. Know how to use it? Subscribe to free video content, play movies and TV on the big screen with cables lying around the house, compress and save your own home movies. In short, get the most out of your new 'pod.

Ever go cheap and wind up with a spindle of DVD-Rs that don't burn or wind up unreadable? Check out this guide to high quality recordable DVDRs to avoid a stack of shiny drink coasters.

"Corporate accounts! Nina speaking! Just a moment!" When every day is a case of the Mondays at your cubicle job where constant interruptions keep you from getting a thing done, take our advice on how to firewall your attention at the office.

Need a pen? Oh, look! Here's one all folded up in my wallet. Get your brilliant ideas down on paper wherever you are with a foldable wallet pen.

When the ghost of your login screen burns into your LCD monitor and haunts you while you're working in other programs, Apple's got a little tutorial on getting rid of the little bugger and avoiding it in the future.

Lifehacker's Power User column appears every Wednesday on Gizmodo.

Apple Hitting Up HBO for iPod Content

tgrumet — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:37:33 EST

It's no big surprise that Apple execs are in talks with HBO to deliver content, including our fave dickhead Larry David, to the Video iPod. There's no plan in place just yet, but some discussion was had at yesterday's press event at HBO for its exclusive, multiyear deal with Cingular. But remember, that's just for "clips," so one never knows what the future holds.

HBO wants to bring the Sopranos to your iPod [Apple Insider]

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

Gina Trapani — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:30:00 EST

This week at Lifehacker: Drive Firefox with your keyboard. Carry around secure data backups on your iPod. Optimize your Mac's broadband connection. Learn all the right gym moves using exercise videos on your iPod.

You call yourself a geek and you didn't know that Control/Command-K will snap your cursor up to the Firefox search engine box? And that Control/Command-Down and Up will switch up engines? Click thee to our guide to mouse-less Firefox and shun that rodent while you surf faster and more efficiently.

Some people have redundant arrays of disks backing up their pirated movies, porn, and Word documents of college papers. Others just use their iPod. Stick an encrypted disk image of your personal data in your pocket along with the 10,000 MP3's you never listen to. This way when your house burns down along with the multiple replicating file servers, you'll still have off-site iPod backup.

Enlarge the data pipe that connects your Mac to the 'net. Apple's free Broadband Tuner increases buffer sizes to take full advantage of broadband connections on OS X. Remember, when it comes to buffers, size does matter.

Are you the uncoordinated fool at the gym flailing about pulling leg muscles while trying to master the art of the crunch? Download free exercise videos to your iPod to get those moves right and give you something to look at other than the gaggle of hotties pointing and giggling in the corner.

Lifehacker's Power User column appears every Wednesday on Gizmodo.

Preloaded Video iPod

tgrumet — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:45:35 EST

Don't feel like loading your own content on your Video iPod? Check out a company called TVMyPod, which will gladly sell you a brand new Video iPod with the DVD movies of your choice already preloaded. Not a bad deal if you don't have the movies, or the time to deal with ripping, converting and loading all that content. To those who've already purchased their hardware, the company also plans to let you send your iPod in for preloading, and is thinking about adding a subscription service to give you new video content as well.

Buy your video iPod... preloaded [Lost Remote]

TiVo Q&A

tgrumet — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:30:08 EST

With TiVo's big announcement yesterday, announcing the simple downloading of programs to your Video iPod and PSP, you may have some questions. So here are some quick answers. First of all, you may have already heard of the TiVoToGo service, which currently lets you transfer programming to computers and laptops, as well as portable products that use the Microsoft Portable Media Center format. You can actually use this service to download to the PSP and Video iPod right now with various software products, but the recently announced service is different because the shows will be encoded to be quickly transferred using an "auto-sync" feature. But watch out, the company is also saying that you "will need to purchase certain low-cost software." So, it's not really clear whether this will be free.

Encoding also looks like it will take a bit of time, so as well as needing about 200MB of memory space for 30 minutes of video, it will also take about 2 minutes for every minute of content to transfer.

As for who can use this feature, it looks like only those who actually subscribe to TiVo directly, which locks out all of you who subscribe through DirecTV.

And one more thing: This service doesn't support Macs, so this could anger quite a few iPod owners. Look for links on TiVo's website in the next few weeks if you'd like to sign up for the beta testing. You must have a broadband connection and testers will be chosen "based partly on how respondents phrase their responses to some questions." So watch your words! The rest of us should look for this around April, 2006.

FAQ: Behind TiVo's play for iPod, PSP [Cnet]

Prices for TiVo Boxes [Amazon]

Get Your iPod Downloads...From TiVo?

tgrumet — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:59:45 EST

After news last week that the DVR maker is losing customers to other forms of DVRs (including satellite and cable makers), sneaky TiVo rebounded today with an announcement in the Wall Street Journal of plans to let users download any of the TV programs stored on their recorders to video iPods (as well as PSPs). Testing of the software should happen in the next few weeks and all TiVo users should have access to it by first quarter next year with a one-time fee of between $15 and $30. TiVo also mentioned that it may take up to to 2 hours to transfer the program. The New York Times added to this with news that TiVo will also let you transfer your programs to portable DVD players as well.

TiVo to allow iPod video downloads: WSJ [Reuters]
TiVo to Transfer Shows to iPods, Sony PSP [NY Times]

Prices and reviews for TiVo boxes [Amazon]