Posted by Harri Mellin on 06/12/06 17:59

In article <6gcjg.12192$U84.230416@wagner.videotron.net>,
NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:

> 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

who in hell encodes mp3s in 128Kbps ?

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