so I'm in the market for a new mp3 player... but video intrigues me too...

[Homerboy]

so much to choose from.

 

[loup garou]

If you want to buy tv shows, iPod.
If you want support for lots of different formats without transcoding, Zen Vision M
If you have a MediaCenter computer, wait for the Toshiba Gigabeat S series

 

[Homerboy]

well honestly Id compress a lot of movies for myself to whatever format required and/or dload TV shoes and such from NGs to watch.
I guess I'm concerned with the quality of the video on the Ipods and such... I guess I gotta hit the apple store

 

[chambersc]

i own a video ipod and maybe it's just mine but the battery life blows when playing videos. probably 1 tv show and on the second one, it'll fail after half the epi. is over.

 

[Homerboy]

The Zen is VERY interesting to me. I love tha tit does XViD and all the other formats. question though is does it require some special resolution or can I just drag and drop my dozens and dozens of already-ripped-to-XViD-from-DVD TV shows?

 

[joincamp]

Originally posted by: chambersc
i own a video ipod and maybe it's just mine but the battery life blows when playing videos. probably 1 tv show and on the second one, it'll fail after half the epi. is over.

i'm guessing by tv show you mean an hour(42 min) long show, cause 30min of batt life would be unpassable.

 

[Homerboy]

http://monsternet.org/reviews/zenvisionm/index.php

pretty decent review on the Zen... biggest gripe seemed to be some aliasing on resized video but on a tiny screen it cant matter that much