Sunday, December 11, 2005

5G

5G grip
5G grip,
originally uploaded by Mishaone.

New 5G ipod, woo-hoo! A quick review:

Video display and playback: Absolutely crystal. Brilliant colors, razor sharp pictures and no skipping whatsoever. Also, none of that annoying LCD fault of not being able to view the screen at an angle. Additionally, the 2.5 x 2.5 inch screen (0.5 inches larger than previous models) is a great idea. Much love, Steve Jobs! Oh and also, another great feature included but not much trumpeted is that the iPod bookmarks each video you have played and resumes from that very point onwards when you should play the video again. Great for TV shows and movies so that you don't have to skip ahead or rewind until you find where you left off but a tad annoying with music videos.

File Conversion: Flawless. I downloaded an already converted movie file (Fight Club in Mp4 format from mininova.com) and it played great with absolutely no discernible loss in quality. I then used a software called ImToo iPod Movie Converter to convert a bunch of hi-res videos and TV shows and move them onto the iPod and played them. Beautiful, absolutely gorgeous. I am now in the process of watching the whole first season of Firefly on the move on this little beauty.

Additional Graphic goodies: Thanks to a color screen, we can now assigned album art to individual songs (which I actually did for each of my 750+ songs) and be saved from the blandness of simple text as a song plays. Also, you can save the lyrics for each song, although I'm still experimenting with that feature and how exactly to access it while a song plays.

More later. :)

Misha at Sunday, December 11, 2005

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