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[GT40FIED]

Originally Posted by Mischief

just because you only want to have a couple songs with you while I prefer to carry my entire play list with me the iPod sucks? makes sense. almost..

I guess my question would be do you really NEED your whole playlist at all times? I mean..I can fit a few hundred songs onto a 512MB flash card. No way I'm going through that on a plane or on my way to class. The video ones would probably be more fun (and a lot more expensive) but they've still gotta have the battery problems. Over the holidays at work we sold iPods and Creative MP3 players (can't remember the names) and we sold 5 Creatives for every 1 iPod. Maybe people are starting to wise up.

Anyway...back OT. Rob...I'd say that XM or Sirius *might* duplicate what happened with cable, but it'll take a lot longer. Think about it...there's really only a handful of genres of TV and movies to show on cable. Chances are that at any given time, with only a few more channels on TV, people could find something they liked on. Music and radio has tons of genres and even more sub-genres. And there's no garauntee that you'll even like a song/talk show topic/whatever even if you happen to like that genre. I remember someone telling me that there's a speed metal channel on satellite radio...there can't be more than 50 people tuned into that at any given time.

[Mischief]

Originally Posted by GT40FIED

I guess my question would be do you really NEED your whole playlist at all times? I mean..I can fit a few hundred songs onto a 512MB flash card. No way I'm going through that on a plane or on my way to class. The video ones would probably be more fun (and a lot more expensive) but they've still gotta have the battery problems.

Do I absolutely NEED it? no.. but is it convenient having all my songs on it already instead of having to constantly plug it in and re-do my playlist everytime I want a change of music on there? yes.. and to me it's worth the cost.. and I don't know what battery problems you're talking about, I know the first gen ipods had problems but I've never heard of problems after that, I know I never had any and no one I know that has an iPod has any problems with them.