iPod Blues

After relishing it for the past six months, my iPod video has become an important part of me. I simply feel handicapped without it, especially when I have to necessarily travel by bus to reach Office in the morning and return in evening; I had fun with all the music videos, games, movies and music. Though it is, and remains to be, convenient at a larger part certain flaws are quite apparant and need an immediate attention from the Apple guys.

Firstly, Music Videos are horribly costly to be bought from iTunes Store. Each costing about $1.99 you will be shelling out nearly $20+ for an entire album (if at all the entire album is available!). So are the TV shows.

Secondly, there are too few to select. I wish that one day I get TV shows of Russell Peters, Friends season 8, Tom& Jerry shows from iTunes store. I thought of having the whole collection of Michael Jackson but ended up with only 7 to 8 music videos of him. And movies - not in the near future as Apple itself is busy negotiating with the English-movie production houses, and getting Tamil movies is something my son or daughter will yearn for.

Thirdly, there is no suitable software that can convert other video formats to iPod format. I tried iTunes to convert MPEG files but instead it stripped off the audio leaving only video. I tried some open software available on the net but most of them generate video streams that are either out of sync or of very poor quality.

Fourth flaw is my favorite as this one is an authentic bug in iPod. When the software hangs there is no way you can reboot the system, instead you need to wait till the battery getting over and recharge it again so that it works.

And the last one, before you go for the latest iPod video make sure you prepare yourself to be careful with the device as its storage is a plain hard disk and not flash, so if you drop it once then don’t bother to pick it at all.

Whatever it is, the convenience of the podcasts is a cool luxury. Not less of its elegant design and simplicity. I love my iPod, and I am sure you too will love it.