New Apple 30 GB iPod Details

New Apple 30 GB iPod Details The new iPod, despite its added Hyped new techniques, is still an iPod. This is not a video iPod, a ViPod, a V-Pod or something else. On the contrary, continues its original name of iPod. This new model is a 30GB device with a screen about the same size (but much higher quality) that the current iPod. Really, without knowing what it is, most might not even be able to tell this little child can play video at all. The new 30GB iPod is 30 percent thinner than the previous 20GB model to be of color, but the height and width is the same. (The current 60 GB model is about 10 percent thinner than the old 20GB model). This may not seem like a big difference on paper, but we were impressed by the new model of allegiance to the figure, when we had the two side by side. The 2.5-inch backlit LCD, a 320 by 240 pixels, is considerably larger than the previous 2-inch 220-by-176 screen. The iPod interface is most often the same, podcasts and audiobooks are now in the Music menu. A new video menu provides access to video playlists, Movies, Music, videos, podcasts and video. The Video Settings menu (also accessible in the Videos menu) lets you enable or disable the TV output, toggle between PAL and NTSC format, and tu on the big screen and off. The stopwatch and screen lock that were introduced with the iPod nano are also present, even if you can have up to three rounds of timer on the screen at once, thanks to full-screen LCD. The technical features on the video are: support includes the file format MOV, MP4, and M4V (Apple-DRM-protected video content). The iPod plays H.264 (Baseline Profile) video up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240 pixels and 30 frames per second, and MPEG-4 (simple profile) to 2.5 Mbps, 480 x 480 pixels and 30 fps. The stereo audio portions of videos are 48-kHz AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps According to Apple, you can change about 75 hours of video on the 30GB model and twice that the 60GB version.