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I'm a music junkie, I admit it. But honestly, I thought that I would have appeased all of my pocket music library needs when I upgraded my iPod from 20 to 80GB. It helped for a while, but every so often I find myself deleting yet another 30-minute experimental jazz track from my hard drive to make way for more new music. I have a problem.

iPod repair site, RapidRepair.com has a solution--a temporary one at least. The site today announced the addition of a 240GB iPod hard drive to its list of music player upgrades. No word on price yet, though the site's 120GB hard drive is priced at $189.99, and I'm guessing you can add at least $20 to that price.

According to RapidRepair.com, the hard drive will be available for all 5G iPods. Upgrades for the iPod Classic and Zune 2G are expected to be available at some point as well. In the meantime the site has a waiting list for the 5G models. Sorry.

The specifications for the iPod 30Gb video are the following:

File format support includes MOV, MP4, M4V (Apple's DRM-protected video content). The iPod plays H.264 profile (base) video up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels and 30 frames per second, so that the MPEG-4 (Simple Profile) up to 2.5 Mbps, 480 by 480 pixels and 30 fps. The stereo audio videos are in 48 kHz LC-AAC format, with up to 160 Kbps. According to Apple, you can more or less than 75 hours of video on the 30 GB model and twice from that of the 60 GB version.

Basically, your own videos and content in the new iPod, May, but you have to QuickTime Pro ($ 29.99 direct) to convert files over the first new iPod export function, depending on codec is that we use To share files. Of course, films, in iMovie and should be promoted, which is apparently well with the new Apple iMac with built-in iSight camera.

There are also several recommendations, which were published online content and the way to get TiVo DVD to iPod. Of course, Apple provides content on the iTunes Music Store, 2000, with music videos, several episodes of five TV shows, six short films from Pixar Animation, and a large number of video podcasts for free.

The iPod photo capabilities remain largely unchanged, but there are now new 3D transitions for slideshows. The largest screen, but do not leave, you will see more pictures than before. We want Apple to support Panorama and look at the pictures. Photo format support one of the largest in the biz, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PSD (Mac only), PNG and BMP

Despite Apple, the focus is on audio, the first thing everyone wants to know how video on the iPod. It invites an episode of Lost and some video podcasts from the iTunes Music Store, and, to our great surprise, the visual experience is very comfortable. More than a panorama clear and crisp, though, as with most video game indicated, you can see many artifacts from the compression as ringtone and blockiness in the dark areas.

We do not want to, content with the title or sporting events (the great camera position players would probably be a little too small, not to mention a hockey puck), but everything seems too loud and smooth.

One thing that I really like is that the iPod remembers where you are no longer to see a video to come back any time, I can be back from where you left off. You can also send video to rub, but not in real time, scroll a progress bar, and will jump to the point where you quit.

The iPod interface is almost identical, and despite the audio podcasts are now under the "music". A new video menu provides access to video playlists, movies, videos, music, video and podcasts. The menu settings video (also on the menu "Video"), you can enable or disable, TV-out, switch between NTSC and PAL format, and rotate the pan and outdoors.

The stopwatch and a screen lock, with the iPod nano are also present, although now may take up to three times on the screen at once, thank you for the biggest LCD screen. In our tests too short, measured 16.5 hours audio playback to the 30 GB model with a real-world mix of MP3 files encoded at 128 up to 320 Kbps. The device is a value of two hours of video playback, but was 2 hours and 25 minutes with several video podcasts and an episode of Lost, including the headphones with volume to hear normally.

May your experience depending on the content, scope, hears, how long did you have your iPod (yes, the batteries lose the ability, over time), working temperature, the playback mode, and the settings of the equalizer. The 60 GB version offers 20 hours audio or video three hours per charge.

The new generation of the iPod is born with the emergence of Apple 30 GB iPod Video. Yes, you are right, 30 GB of memory in a mini-form. But the ability, video playback, Apple has the iPod hold on the audio at the moment. Therefore, do not call, video iPod, VPOD, and no matter which states that it is a video player.

This means that the video is very good in the new model with 2.5-inch screen, and the thin, entirely new functions such as the high audio quality stereo recording, it is more flexible than the generations before. Consider now that the 30 GB model for the same price as the previous version 20 GB model, and you have a very impressive.

The new iPod 30 GB is 30 percent thinner than the previous model with 20 GB color, but the height and width are the same. (The 60 GB model is currently about 10 percent thinner than the old model 20 GB). The May does not seem a big difference on paper but were impressed by the new model thin-determine when we have the two side by side. The 2.5-inch LCD backlight, 320 by 240 pixels, is much more important than the previous 220 to 2-inch screen-176.

Apple has also the elimination of the 9-pin remote control in this version, which means that third parties such as Belkin and Griffin, their lines accessories. Apple consideration was that the accessories must have the existing dock connector and not through a second port of property.

All these capabilities seem to be improved in the case of the new iPod video except the creation of other games or the introduction of new ones. This may be seen as a disadvantage, but if taking into account the fact that it is a case of a portable music player this aspect does not have such a great importance.

The innovation is of course the video capability, although the main features of the new iPod stress on great improvements in the image and sound quality. The video image is surprisingly smooth and in this way may replace the skeptical attitudes with joyful exclamations.

Although it is not the first attempt of bringing video on a portable handheld device, this achievement seems to be the most successful. This success is due to a lot of required work and complicated changes in the software and hardware as well. In a way or another, Apple seems to be the champion in creating special portable devices and maybe some other steps will be taken in the development of the small video portable devices.

In this way, maybe a special compatibility with more devices may be developed, ensuring other periods of great success. Other online stores may appear and develop in the tradition of the iTunes music store. Due to iPods from the Apple Company legal content of the downloaded and paid music or TV shows, episodes or other materials is ensured.

Concerning the hardware of the iPods one may say that the first generation iPods were recharged only through FireWire with the help of a small power adapter. The 4th generation iPods may have been charged over USB. The 5th generation iPod may be charged with the help of a dock connector allowing the FireWire cable to be plugged in for the recharge.

Compatibility of the iPods with Windows is the idea of Apple, realized in 2002, fact that contributed to the creation of a Windows version of iTunes in 2003. The iPods could be made to be compatible with a Macintosh and there is also an iPodLinux project.

Some additional features may be mentioned while speaking about the iPods in general and iPod video in particular. The iPods can display text files, fact which is very useful. There are also PDA calendars, some games that were interesting several years ago but they seem outdated nowadays. The games available on almost every iPod except the iPod shuffle are brick, parachute, solitaire, music quiz. The most interesting game is the music quiz, playing some fragments of some songs and waiting the user to identify the song from a list. The disadvantage of this game is that it uses a lot of battery power.

The new iPod video capabilities continue the developing process of the old capabilities software, hardware and compatibility with other devices. Concerning the software, it is well-known that the iPod in general and the iPod video in particular play MP3, audible audio book, WAV, M4A/AAC, protected AAC, AIFF and Apple Lossless audio file formats. Since the 5th generation iPods there is another possibility of playing m4v and mp4 MPEG-4 video file formats. Only non copy-protected WMA files may be copied to an iPod. Other formats are not possible to be played by the iPod and this is the case of FLAC and Ogg Vorbis formats.

Besides, the iPods are especially designed for matching the iTunes media library software. This online music store appeared in 2003 and it sells songs and it was thought exclusively for the iPod users and not for other portable music players. This may have contributed to the success both the iPods and the iTunes music store and to the great development and improvements of the iPod’s capabilities.

The software of the new iPod video has new features personalized recommendations and video content that can be played on a Pc or transferred to the iPod. The software was upgraded to Version 6, fact that represents a development and a distinct achievement.

The best feature for iPod is their biggest screen. Maybe it’s your first impression when first looking. The face of material of this iPod is dual layered with clear resin on top of white plastic. Perhaps it’s useful to prevent the LCD from damage and makes screen being clear looking.

That wide screen feature is good support for video that it plays. Off course there is nothing remotely revolutionary about the way it plays video. But when you take, how’s easy of use to getting videos into those portable devices into account, that’s where the new Video iPod really glaring.

For all of PSP widescreen glory, you can’t output that video to an external display yet. However, the new iPod makes video output seem like easiest thing to do.

As you know, there are many advance of technology product. Even right now, seems like many kind of technology mixed between each of them. Just look at the mixed of digital camera and phone -cell or phone and video. Those all created the new kind of product names. And the one of them is iPod.