SHAKE it UP

I need some excitement.

Every day has been way too ordinary. It's pissing me off.

I don't like stagnance. Even if something bad were to happen, at least something would happen.

So, I'll just comment on stuff.

So now that Apple has announced their video iPod, some people who got the nano (or are still waiting for it like me) are upset. Naw, don't be upset, kittens. Video compression that it supports H.264 or H.246 or some shit like that, and MPEG-4, is not trivial. It takes lots of power. They say the 30 GB iPod can play video for 2 hours. When fully charged. Hmmm... meh. 15 hours of music? Hey, cool. But, 2 hours of video? I'm less impressed. Ok, ok, so the 60 GB iPod can play three hours. Fine. But it's also bigger than the 30 GB version. The ipod itself got a little depth shrink, which is cool I guess, except the two versions sounds like there was infighting.

Plus, I don't think it's very valuable. It's a 2.5" screen, right, and it's supposed to be gorgeous, sure, but I got 3 hours out of my laptop playing movies on its 15" monitor on the airplane to LA a year ago. And it was playing a movie at much higher than 320x240, the only resolution that new iPod shows.

As far as Digital Rights, music videos are $1.99, and you can't extract the audio out of them and add them to your music playlist. Boooo..... and... who's gonna pay $1.99 for music videos when you can watch them for free? (If you can get ahold of it, check out the extended videofor Benny Benassi - Satisfaction... it's totally filthy)

Which brings up a point... the real benefit of this is video distriuted via iTunes. Yeah, they're not the first with VOD. But they are, AFAIK, the first Video-On-Demand that will deliver network TV shows. I'm concerned, though, that the true potential of this video distibution medium will be hampered by Disney's family-friendly partnership with Apple's hippie-drugged-out zombies. Can you say porn? No? Oh, well, keep at it.

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BORING. I bet you wish something exciting will happen in my life so I don't talk about bullshit.

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Sinner.