Comments on: Apple iPod Video 60GB Black MP3 Player

By: Yahoo! Shopping User

Yahoo! Shopping User — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:25:59 +0000

The 60 GB iPod truly is a breath of fresh air in regards to portable music devices. The sound is crisp, the album pictures are clear and it can hold more music than ever before. I personally tend to use it for a mixture of video and music files. The screen is frighteningly clear. The major downside is the fact that the screen scratches VERY easily so if you purchase an iPod, make sure you get a protective case for it as soon as possible. Overall, I think it is well worth the price paid for it.
Pro : lightweight; holds many songs/video files; extremely clear color display
Con : scratches very easily

By: redkull2006

redkull2006 — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:04:59 +0000

As i found out the new ipod the video one eat the batteries up like crazy. It was like eating it like anything i have seen. What I think is Apple is being cheap.Why? One is the batteries two is they are making us go out and buy the wallcharger for another 30 dollar when you have already spend 300-450 on the ipod itself. Other then these two the ipod could be damage really easy.
Pro : Mostly everything
Con : life of batteries and no wall charger

By: brightmoonalley

brightmoonalley — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:50:59 +0000

I got this as a gift and I was totally excited. I love using it and it's an awesome product. The one issue I ran into was that some videos wont play unless they're converted to a specific format. The only recommendation was to purchase Quick time Pro 7 and convert them myself. I thought that was odd, especially if you pay 400 dollars plus tax and have to spend another 29.99 to actually watch videos, if they are not properly converted. That aside, I LOVE IT!!!
Pro : Huge storage, great screen and color, Love the black color of unit.
Con : videos have to be properly converted.

By: ballinjap11

ballinjap11 — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:32:59 +0000

i bought this iPod about a month after it came out and i'm lovin it. i had the 2nd gen. ipod with the four touch buttons before and that battery never lasted, but this new one lasts like 20 hours. i have some full movies on mine and after i'm done watching one of those i usually have an hour of battery life left for another movie. anyone who says the battery life isn't good enough is wrong. also, you can easily find programs to get any kind of movie, tv show, or anything else to put on u'r new video ipod. there is nothing you can't put on it which makes it everything you need for portable entertainment and it fit right into any pocket (even the 60 gb). plus it's black! no more white, apple came out with a stylish, sleek new color for the ipod which makes it a lot more eye catching as well. the only bad things about it is that there aren't enough accessories out there for the new ipod yet like new protective covers. other than that, all other accessories that work for the older ipods work for the new.
Pro : video, battery, BLACK, 60 friggin gigs!
Con : needs more accessories

By: mdsc160

mdsc160 — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:12:59 +0000

this is my first ipod and I always tought that was something missing in the ipod and honestly I really like apple design, but their idea of everything white....don't know, So I got the black 5G with 60GB hard drive. it's unbelievable how easy to operate and how smoothly works with itunes.
great video quality and sound, I use mine with a pair of sony earbuds mdr-51 and sound is really really great.
okay now the bad news, there are just some things that for that money you are expecting are solved but..:
1. if you don't put a cover o a skin as soon you took it out the box... it'll be cover of scratches right away...So buy a cover on ebay for $10 and solve the problem.
(they included a cover, but you cannot operate the ipod with it)
2. If you don't buy the videos thru itunes... how are you supposed to put videos on it??? I mean, most of the people have their own videos and if you want to put them on the ipod... spend 30 or 40 bucks in a software to do that or spend a lot of nights finding out how to do it right with freeware (like me).
3. No electric (wall) charger included, it's only the usb.
4. No accesories in black... apple decide to change their minds and started selling black ipods...but with white earbuds and white remotes??? very odd.

Ok, that was it... $400 for this 60GB ipod worth it... but you go home with the feeling of they could have put some of the things I just mentioned in the box... but as soon as you start enjoying it you quickly forget how thrifty apple is.
Pro : great design, great video and sound quality.
Con : scratches with just looking at it, a lot of money without extras.

By: goggletan117

goggletan117 — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:44:59 +0000

I'm probably not the only one who realized this, but the fact that apple gives out free engravings is not because they are nice, it is so they can refuse to refund it. A good thing to know before you get your name on the new pod. I recently got a nano with my name on it, and now I want to sell it to buy the video, only it is much harder to sell an ipod with a strangers name on the back.
Pro : plays video
Con : too much $ and it scratches

By: jonathanuva

jonathanuva — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:37:59 +0000

Whenever I can use a product intuitively right out of the box without referring to the manual, I consider that a superior design. I got the 60g iPod and now I can carry my entire music collection with me everywhere I go with storage space to spare. I think its a bit pricey but when I looked at comparable products from Creative and iRiver, iPod is way better in terms of overall design, build quality and ease of use. In terms of overall storage capacity per dollar, iPod also wins hands down. Also, the battery life is excellent. I think the competetion will eventually catch up, but for now, iPod is the reigning king of the hill.
Pro : superb design concept and build quality
Con : bit pricey ...

By: evan_agee

evan_agee — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:57:59 +0000

I've been an Apple fan for years. Not only do I love their computers and their software but I love the company as a whole. However, as much as I've always loved the company I never could bring myself to shell out the $300-$400 for an iPod and I knew that I wouldn't be happy with the smaller storage capacity offered by the Mini, Nano or Shuffle. So, when I recently had some extra Christmas cash I decided to take the plunge.

I knew these were great gadgets that, like most Apple products, had great design and usability ratings and I knew that they were high quality products. So, what did I think once I actually had my own and had a chance to use it? Read on.

From the moment I saw the new, smaller size of the iPod packaging compared to previous generations I knew that something was going to be different. I was right. Where as previous generations came with a dock (which required the larger square box) this 5th generation model does not and thus is in a much smaller box. Oh well, it was going to take more than that to dampen my excitement. I started opening the box and was impressed by the quality of the packaging. Everything was very securely tucked tightly away inside of the matte black box and there was no space wasted inside.

Once I turned the iPod on i was instantly impressed by the quality of the display. I have to admit that I was somewhat skeptical of this beforehand. I was greatly relived to fine a very bright, high contrast display. Next I was ready to hook it up to my computer and start transferring my music.

First, a little about my situation. I have a computer at home and a computer at work in my office. On both computers I have LOTS of music but each computer has different selections so my music library is split and neither computer has enough spare space to house all of my music. That's one problem that I was really looking forward to solving with my iPod. One device that holds all of my music and then I can take it back and forth to work with me.

In short, the iPod DID solve this problem for me, but not in the way I had originally expected. Rather than automatically syncing with BOTH computers and doing the hard work to manage blocking duplicate songs, etc I was forced to choose one of the computers as the primary computer that i wanted to sync my iPod with. In the end I decided not to do any syncing and instead have all of the music on the iPod only, clearing lots of HD space on both of my computers. This ended up being an even better solution than I one I had envisioned.

As far as video, I've already ripped several of my DVDs onto my iPod and have even downloaded a couple from the iTunes Music Store. Video playback is great though I can envision some improvements to the video interface to take advantage of more of the Meta data.

One of my only complaints is that since I used my iPod first on my Windows machine at home at formatted the iPod for windows so I'm not able to update the software on the iPod (it must be formatted for Mac, which is what my work computer is). So, if I want to update my iPod's software I'm going to have to dump all of my music back onto my computer, restore/reformat my iPod for Mac and then put all of my music back on. I guess it might be worth it, but still a pain.

Overall, this is the #1 best music player on the market and even if it dies in a few years because of the dreaded dead battery issues that have been mentioned so many times online I will be more than happy to spend my money on another. They're that good.
Pro : Excellent display quality, long battery life, great storage capacity
Con : Expensive, no dock, no software update for Windows

By: hellokdbhi

hellokdbhi — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:40:59 +0000

I replaced my old 3rd generation ipod with the new ipod, just to watch videos, i was looking forward to this release for about 6 months. I currently do not have usb 2.0 so i had to transfer all my songs over usb 1.1, yes it is slow but once you have the songs on the ipod it is not a big deal.
I have downloaded plenty of movies (music videos and episodes of lost) off of itunes.
All the disadvantages of the ipod are not very substantial to the ipod's design and user interface.
A must have. (especially 60 gigs because when they come out with full length videos, (don't say they won't, it is the same idea as a cd.) you will be very thankful you got the bigger one.)
Pro : Huge Screen, Great quality
Con : Screen collects scratches overtime, no firewire support

By: cz4tippman

cz4tippman — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:00:59 +0000

I got the 60gb Ipod, and out of the box noticed it was the same thickness as my 20gb gen 3 Ipod, but a little wider, probably to accommodate the bigger screen. Connected it to my computer and started jammin it with videos, photos, and music. Overall video quality is outstanding. It's equal to the PSP quality, just on a smaller scale. The sound quality is the same as any other newer click wheel Ipod. It still has the same vulnerability to scratches as all of it predecessors, which I figure apple would have looked at. Maybe they didn't fix this flaw because they make money on all the after market cases. On a side note, I have to say this time they did add a nice little carrying type case for it, but while in it, you can't see the screen. Still have to go out and buy another case.

Overall it's a nice buy. With TIVO stating it will now start selling software so you can download your recordings to your Ipod, makes this a nice little portable entertainment center, because unlike the PSP you can connect this puppy to a tv.
Pro : Video, Storage, overall quality
Con : Scratches too easily, and battery life