screens. Either in the cinema or at home. I can't quite see any time
when we would need to see a film (or tv programme) on a 3" screen.
Films are designed for the big screenI guess some people do but I
don't need it. As for TV, most of it is rubbish here in the UK so no
need to record programmes. My cable provider has 'watch again' and the
BBC has iPlayer. You wont catch me watching much on an Archos or iTouch.
Jules
--- In AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com, Wade Norton <wadenorton@...> wrote:
>
> Jules,
>
> Like you I¹m was looking into the Touch and was expecting it to
replace my
> 80GB Archos. My son is visiting us right now and he brought with
him his
> 16gb iPod Touch. For me this was perfect because I could spend
> considerable time exploring it.
>
> After a day of playing with it, I have determined it if far superior
to my
> 30gb iPod (very old version). I¹m not convinced the video player is
better.
> In fact, I think the video player (and photo viewer) is considerably
worse
> than the Archos. I have decided to keep my Archos until I find
something
> better, but the touch is not it.
>
> On the good side, one of my concerns was that the Touch required you to
> convert all the video files to the iPod format. That IS NOT TRUE.
My son
> added a 3rd party player (from memory it is Visual Hub) and it plays AVI
> files just fine, without conversion.
>
> Good luck in your search..
>
> Wade
>
>
>
> On 2/29/08 2:35 AM, "Jules" <jules50uk@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I have and 80 GB iPod and love it, Only had it for six months and am
> > completely sold on it. My wife wanted something to look at her photos
> > on so I got her a 160GB Archos but we hated it and returned it. The
> > color was rubbish and browsing not much good either as well as being
> > quite large. So not the iPod Touch is out this looks like wheat we
want.
> > I scoured this forum and there are NO posts from anyone being in the
> > slightest bit excited about what looks like a great, fun product. Just
> > a question or two about the calender or whatever.
> > Can anyone who has got one inject a bit of enthusiasm into this
> > product? And inspire me to buy one. Are there any drawbacks or is it
> > just good? Dp let me know. I'm looking at the 32GB model as you can
> > never have enough storage.
> > Jules
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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