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Posted by NRen2k5 on 06/13/06 04:51
Harri Mellin wrote:
> In article <6gcjg.12192$U84.230416@wagner.videotron.net>,
> NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:
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>> FatKat wrote:
>>> 60gb sounds like a lot - oh it
>>> does more than sound, it IS a lot. It's tons of capacity, literally
>>> more than you can use. 60gb is like 60 movies, or fewer movies and my
>>> entire music collection. It's literally more capacity than most people
>>> could want at one time - so why does anybody pay for capacity they're
>>> not likely to use? Most of the people I know who own iPods also own
>>> DVD-equipped laptops, so they already HD capacity & playability for
>>> exra-DVD's burnt as AVI's. This is borne out by the fact that before
>>> iPod came along, few people on the go with mobile devices like iPods
>>> actually carried around excess media in the range of 60gb, or even half
>>> that. A few years back, I went abroad carrying little more than a
>>> laptop and some AVI-DVD's. The next year, I went on a trip with my new
>>> MP3-CD player - suffice it to say that despite regular usage, I barely
>>> scratched the surface of what I had brought along with me. 60gb, 20,
>>> gb or even 10gb is simply more capacity than anybody would need at once
>>> - 10gb will cover about 8 hours of sound recorded at high BR or 10
>>> high-res hours of video. That capacity might make sense for people who
>>> are going on long trips to remote areas, but cable and Satellite TV has
>>> narrowed the incidence - most iPod owners are just commuting or going
>>> on short trips, or aren't leaving home at all - they aren't really
>>> carrying that much more than they would have had they opted to go the
>>> MP3-CD route or the DVD-laptop route (which most of them have done
>>> anyway). Thus all that extra capacity is a) uneccessary & not
>>> infrequently b) redundant with other hardware they already have.
>> Just to back up what you're saying with numbers, a 60GB iPod will hold:
>> *1 month, 1 week, 1 day, 9 hours and 40 minutes* of music.
>> That breaks down to:
>> *15620 songs* or *1041 albums*.
>> (Assuming that the music is encoded at 128kbps and that each song is 4
>> minutes and each album is 60 minutes.)
>>
>> Wow. Talk about overkill.
>>
>> - NRen2k5
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> who in hell encodes mp3s in 128Kbps ?
People who have a half-decent MP3 encoder and know that they can't tell
the difference in normal listening conditions. Also, people who are
unaware that there are other options.
Many programs default to 128kbps for MP3, AAC and WMA creation.
And check out any P2P app. The majority of files shared are 128kbps.
- NRen2k5
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