Personally i would stay away from Apple. Terrible format and you are
locked in to copyright formatting and iTunes; but if you do get one,
choose the ipod classic - best bang for buck. The best thing you can do
with an ipod is install linux on it - but why waste your money and
simply get a portable 2.5" hard drive that sits in your pocket and costs
half the price!
Cowon and iubi, never heard of them [so can't help you there]
Archos, never owned one but i have heard some good things.
I own several Creative Players [Zen Touch and Zen Vision 30/60GB] - they
have very nice screens and i have never had any problems with them
[using them every day with Winamp or WMP11 or some custom software i
built for myself] and they support all standard formats[freedom form
DRM], including Variable MP3 formats without costing you battery life.
Battery-wise they last many many many hours hours depending on how you
use it and they charge via the USB slot ...
If i was buying one then i would buy creative.
Better still, why not just get a portable DVD player - big cost saving
and 16GB will not go far on video unless you like watching television
adverts. lol :-)
Ben Hayes wrote:
Now that I have everyone's attention (from my previous emails - :) ),
I have a dilemma. I'm undecided on which player to buy. My choices are:
Cowon iAudio 7 (16GB version)
Cowon D2 (8GB + 8GB SHD Card)
Archos 605 160GB version
Apple iTouch 16GB
iubi Blue 60GB
Archos AV 700 80GB
The things that are important is to ensure that they are seen under
Linux. To my knowledge that almost rules our the iubi Blue. I didn't
search too long but I would like to have that one as it's fairly
cheap. The iAudio players support more codecs than any other players
out there but the Archos is considered the better player. While I
like the Apple brand very much, I want to stay away from this as the
other players on the market are more open (ogg, flac, ape, etc, etc)
where as Apple cripple you to specific codecs (although it supports
other formats but then you have to hack the player).
The one thing that I will say is that I do use my player (iPod) to
watch video. The iAudio 7 can play up to 60 hours of music off of one
charge and about 18 hours of video (I think that's the stats for
video). The D2 has about 18 hours of music and 10 hours of video
(again, I think these are correct). I'm unsure about the Archos
status. The idea of being Flash based is good but that comes at a cost.
Any suggestions as to which would be considered the better player?? I
am very undecided on this one.
Regards,
Ben Hayes
*Senior IT Support Analyst*
Ideal Shopping Direct Plc
*(DDI) 08700 780 870*
Registered Office: Ideal Home House, Newark Road, Peterborough, PE1
5WG, UK. Registered in England No. 1534758
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