Gemmill 44054 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I got an email this morning saying I've won a video ipod. I entered the competition ages ago. So the big question is are they much good or should I sling it on ebay? 172632[/snapback] I don't see the point in the video or photo versions tbh, but they're definitely good if you want to listen to music/podcasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 0 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 so apart from the fact it's dated, huge and the earphones are shit.. it's ace.... well.. that's me sold. 172624[/snapback] Yes I realise that's how it sounded. Perfect with Shure E2C headphones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10659 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I got an email this morning saying I've won a video ipod. I entered the competition ages ago. So the big question is are they much good or should I sling it on ebay? 172632[/snapback] I don't see the point in the video or photo versions tbh, but they're definitely good if you want to listen to music/podcasts. 172635[/snapback] video iPod is alright if you're making frequent hour long journeys in which you're just the passenger. watching Ricky Gervais' video podcasts is almost worth getting a video iPod by itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44054 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I got an email this morning saying I've won a video ipod. I entered the competition ages ago. So the big question is are they much good or should I sling it on ebay? 172632[/snapback] I don't see the point in the video or photo versions tbh, but they're definitely good if you want to listen to music/podcasts. 172635[/snapback] video iPod is alright if you're making frequent hour long journeys in which you're just the passenger. watching Ricky Gervais' video podcasts is almost worth getting a video iPod by itself. 172643[/snapback] I just watch that on iTunes tbh. And they're so short as to make them barely worth the effort anyway - I've got a canny few that I keep meaning to watch. I only use public transport when my car's in the garage, so a video ipod is pretty useless to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curry stained pilchard 0 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 If you get an iPod you could also get one of these nifty little (illegal) attachments that transmits an FM frequency so you can play your beat in your motor! No wires either!1!1!!!! iTrip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44054 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I've got an itrip, but I use the old fashioned cassette plugged into the headphones socket thing. The sound quality is much better and you don't have to mess about changing frequencies on long journeys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordieshandy 0 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I have a Creative Zen Touch and it's lovely, a bit dated now like as it's a few years old. Also it's massive but I always have a bag so it's not a problem to me. Can't fault the model though, apart from the shite headphones that come with it. 172601[/snapback] I've got one of them and it does me just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10659 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I've got an itrip, but I use the old fashioned cassette plugged into the headphones socket thing. The sound quality is much better and you don't have to mess about changing frequencies on long journeys. 172654[/snapback] I heard that the iTrip was poor for Car stereos as the iPod had to be kept pretty much on top of the stereo. my problem is that I don't have a cassette deck in the car I'm using at the moment, so instead of buying the £10 cassette adaptor I'd have to fork out £30 for an iTrip (or equivalent) which has received poor reviews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44054 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I've got an itrip, but I use the old fashioned cassette plugged into the headphones socket thing. The sound quality is much better and you don't have to mess about changing frequencies on long journeys. 172654[/snapback] I heard that the iTrip was poor for Car stereos as the iPod had to be kept pretty much on top of the stereo. my problem is that I don't have a cassette deck in the car I'm using at the moment, so instead of buying the £10 cassette adaptor I'd have to fork out £30 for an iTrip (or equivalent) which has received poor reviews. 172671[/snapback] I don't think it's a question of it being on top of the stereo, it's more a question of how good your car aerial is really. On my last car, it just refused to pick up any signal at all from the iTrip, which is why I went down the cassette route. I'd always get cars with cassette players from now on because I have no need for a CD player (my entire collection is on my ipod). My iTrip is the original one mind, so it might have improved since then, although nowt beats the cassette thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10659 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I don't think it's a question of it being on top of the stereo, it's more a question of how good your car aerial is really. On my last car, it just refused to pick up any signal at all from the iTrip, which is why I went down the cassette route. I'd always get cars with cassette players from now on because I have no need for a CD player (my entire collection is on my ipod). My iTrip is the original one mind, so it might have improved since then, although nowt beats the cassette thing. 172680[/snapback] is it not the case these days that it's nigh on impossible to get a new car (and therefore an increasing number of decent used cars) with a tape deck instead of a CD player? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBass 2614 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I've got an itrip, but I use the old fashioned cassette plugged into the headphones socket thing. The sound quality is much better and you don't have to mess about changing frequencies on long journeys. 172654[/snapback] I heard that the iTrip was poor for Car stereos as the iPod had to be kept pretty much on top of the stereo. my problem is that I don't have a cassette deck in the car I'm using at the moment, so instead of buying the £10 cassette adaptor I'd have to fork out £30 for an iTrip (or equivalent) which has received poor reviews. 172671[/snapback] I don't think it's a question of it being on top of the stereo, it's more a question of how good your car aerial is really. On my last car, it just refused to pick up any signal at all from the iTrip, which is why I went down the cassette route. I'd always get cars with cassette players from now on because I have no need for a CD player (my entire collection is on my ipod). My iTrip is the original one mind, so it might have improved since then, although nowt beats the cassette thing. 172680[/snapback] Apart from a direct link into the auxillary input of your car stereo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44054 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I've got an itrip, but I use the old fashioned cassette plugged into the headphones socket thing. The sound quality is much better and you don't have to mess about changing frequencies on long journeys. 172654[/snapback] I heard that the iTrip was poor for Car stereos as the iPod had to be kept pretty much on top of the stereo. my problem is that I don't have a cassette deck in the car I'm using at the moment, so instead of buying the £10 cassette adaptor I'd have to fork out £30 for an iTrip (or equivalent) which has received poor reviews. 172671[/snapback] I don't think it's a question of it being on top of the stereo, it's more a question of how good your car aerial is really. On my last car, it just refused to pick up any signal at all from the iTrip, which is why I went down the cassette route. I'd always get cars with cassette players from now on because I have no need for a CD player (my entire collection is on my ipod). My iTrip is the original one mind, so it might have improved since then, although nowt beats the cassette thing. 172680[/snapback] Apart from a direct link into the auxillary input of your car stereo. 172687[/snapback] Aye maybe, but I'm not a big enough nerd for that! Fish, I think you can still get cars with cassettes in if you ask for them. If not, I'll just have to get my next car ipod enabled like this dweeb here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodgate27 0 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I'm also one who doesn't have a cassette deck in my car, I've been meaning to buy an iTrip but can't be arsed, all my cd's are in my car anyway. an have an iPod video which isn't really much use to me, I could stack it with porn but it's too complicated a process, plus I'm on the type who would want to watch porn on a train or bus.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 These little Sony things are cool (and the gang). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 21005 Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 I'm the type who would want to watch porn on a train or bus.... What an excellent idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBass 2614 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I've got an itrip, but I use the old fashioned cassette plugged into the headphones socket thing. The sound quality is much better and you don't have to mess about changing frequencies on long journeys. 172654[/snapback] I heard that the iTrip was poor for Car stereos as the iPod had to be kept pretty much on top of the stereo. my problem is that I don't have a cassette deck in the car I'm using at the moment, so instead of buying the £10 cassette adaptor I'd have to fork out £30 for an iTrip (or equivalent) which has received poor reviews. 172671[/snapback] I don't think it's a question of it being on top of the stereo, it's more a question of how good your car aerial is really. On my last car, it just refused to pick up any signal at all from the iTrip, which is why I went down the cassette route. I'd always get cars with cassette players from now on because I have no need for a CD player (my entire collection is on my ipod). My iTrip is the original one mind, so it might have improved since then, although nowt beats the cassette thing. 172680[/snapback] Apart from a direct link into the auxillary input of your car stereo. 172687[/snapback] Aye maybe, but I'm not a big enough nerd for that! Fish, I think you can still get cars with cassettes in if you ask for them. If not, I'll just have to get my next car ipod enabled like this dweeb here! 172689[/snapback] I didn't say that I had one though did I Although I have enquired if such an item exists for the Bose stereo system that's factory fitted in the Mazda RX-8's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44054 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I've got an itrip, but I use the old fashioned cassette plugged into the headphones socket thing. The sound quality is much better and you don't have to mess about changing frequencies on long journeys. 172654[/snapback] I heard that the iTrip was poor for Car stereos as the iPod had to be kept pretty much on top of the stereo. my problem is that I don't have a cassette deck in the car I'm using at the moment, so instead of buying the £10 cassette adaptor I'd have to fork out £30 for an iTrip (or equivalent) which has received poor reviews. 172671[/snapback] I don't think it's a question of it being on top of the stereo, it's more a question of how good your car aerial is really. On my last car, it just refused to pick up any signal at all from the iTrip, which is why I went down the cassette route. I'd always get cars with cassette players from now on because I have no need for a CD player (my entire collection is on my ipod). My iTrip is the original one mind, so it might have improved since then, although nowt beats the cassette thing. 172680[/snapback] Apart from a direct link into the auxillary input of your car stereo. 172687[/snapback] Aye maybe, but I'm not a big enough nerd for that! Fish, I think you can still get cars with cassettes in if you ask for them. If not, I'll just have to get my next car ipod enabled like this dweeb here! 172689[/snapback] I didn't say that I had one though did I Although I have enquired if such an item exists for the Bose stereo system that's factory fitted in the Mazda RX-8's 172701[/snapback] Ohhhhhh, have you now! How awfully terribly posh! And is it? I would think a lot of car manufacturers will be having to think about this option tbh. I know you can get BMWs that are ipod-ready. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBass 2614 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Yes it is but it costs about £120 I think. Whilst we're on the subject... [shameless plug] I have an Alpine head unit and iPod interface for sale if anyone's interested. [/shameless plug] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44054 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I don't even know what that means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBass 2614 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 How's that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10659 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 might be interested in that Mr Bass can you hang onto it for a month or so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44054 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 might be interested in that Mr Bass can you hang onto it for a month or so? 172841[/snapback] Will you confirm after a month whether or not you're interested like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1210 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Aldi were selling car stereos with a usb interface for mp3 players a few weeks ago and I'm sure they were less than £50. I've got a Belkin FM transmitter and it works fine (except you need to set all your songs on the ipod to about 3/4 volume or you need to have the volume of the stereo really loud). I've never had any problem with reception and so far I've been as far as Leeds with it. I'm sure a direct connection to the stereo would work better but for the fifteen or so quid I paid it's been excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBass 2614 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 might be interested in that Mr Bass can you hang onto it for a month or so? 172841[/snapback] Yeah no probs. I need to get all my shit together and have a big eBay blitz at some point but I just can't be arsed at the moment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10659 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 might be interested in that Mr Bass can you hang onto it for a month or so? 172841[/snapback] Will you confirm after a month whether or not you're interested like? 172844[/snapback] I will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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