Ipod Video

Ipod Video

The Ipod video, which has only been available for a few days, is the one product in Best Buy that I would particularly like to own. Specifically the 30 gigabyte Black Ipod Video. What makes this product so attractive is first, obviously, it can play videos. Up to 75 hours that is! The next thing that caught my eye about this product is that it can easily be connected to a digital camera to transfer photos. This means that there is no need for numerous memory cards on a long trip with your digital camera. The final factor that makes me want to go purchase this product today is that it only costs $299, which is only a mere $20 more than the 4 gigabyte Ipod mini was recently marked at.

According to the Apple web site the 30 gigabyte Ipod video has the following specifications. A capacity to store seven thousand five hundred songs, seventy five hours of video, two thousand five hundred photos, a battery life of over fourteen hours, and a 2.5 inch backbit LCD screen with 320x240 pixel resolution. And not to mention its only weighs 4.8 ounces and is less than a half an inch thin.

There are several competitors to the Ipod Video. While many might think a competitor to the Ipod video would be another mp3 player such as the Rio Karma but I believe they would be mistaken. The Ipod video has jumped into an entirely different market, its competitors are the PMP's or the Portable Media Players. This market has been slow to advance due to their high end prices and bugs within their first few models, but the Ipod Video can change this. Of the PMP's the most well known up to this point would have to be the Creative Zen Portable Media Center 20GB MP3/Video Player. This player is full of basically the same features as the Ipod Video and it also has a slightly larger viewing area, but for its high cost of upwards of four hundred and fifty dollars it has a substantially smaller hard drive. I believe it is overpriced and judging from several on line review sites it is full of bugs. Another competitor in the Portable Media Player market is Archos 30GB Mobile Digital Video Recorder. One of the good features about this product is that it can be docked directly to your television and can record straight from the Television. While may be worth it for some people to pay extra for this feature, I already have a computer capable of doing this, I can obtain video for my Ipod video very easily. The Price tag for this product is around $449. It is simply not worth it for me to pay that price when I can get everything I want from the Ipod Video.

The Ipod Video can replace a closet full of items. Not only does it replace your stereo in your house, it can very easily also be implemented into any car to replace the stereo in your car. For roughly $100 you can take your car to Best Buy and they can install an input for your Ipod Directly into your current CD player or Radio. This is an incredible feature for road