Omega Owners Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Welcome to OOF

Pages: [1] 2  All   Go Down

Author Topic: I pod or Mp4 Question  (Read 1414 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Vamps

  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Bishop Middleham, Co Durham.
  • Posts: 24708
  • Flying Tonight, so Be Prepared.
    • Mig 2.6CDX and 2.2 Honda
    • View Profile
I pod or Mp4 Question
« on: 14 November 2008, 22:40:03 »
What is the difference, big price difference. Daughter wanted an I pod, she is only 8 and I think they are expensive, swmbo has seen an MP4 on the Aldi site and still seems to play video, pictures etc.
Logged

Martin_1962

  • Guest
Re: I pod or Mp4 Question
« Reply #1 on: 14 November 2008, 22:42:37 »
Ipod - you pay for the marketing and the name - plenty of better PMPs around
Logged

TheBoy

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Brackley, Northants
  • Posts: 107026
  • I Like Lockdown
    • Whatever Starts
    • View Profile
Re: I pod or Mp4 Question
« Reply #2 on: 14 November 2008, 22:42:39 »
You will pay a premium for the gayPod.  But crap mpeg4 players are that - crap.
Logged
Grumpy old man

TheBoy

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Brackley, Northants
  • Posts: 107026
  • I Like Lockdown
    • Whatever Starts
    • View Profile
Re: I pod or Mp4 Question
« Reply #3 on: 14 November 2008, 22:44:15 »
But then if its a style thing, she'd want the gayPod over and above anything superior...
Logged
Grumpy old man

Mr Skrunts

  • Get A Life!!
  • *****
  • Online Online
  • Gender: Male
  • Skruntie Land.
  • Posts: 25673
  • 3.O Elite Saloon with all the toys,
    • 2003 CD 2.2 Auto
    • View Profile
Re: I pod or Mp4 Question
« Reply #4 on: 14 November 2008, 22:46:24 »
Quote
What is the difference, big price difference. Daughter wanted an I pod, she is only 8 and I think they are expensive, swmbo has seen an MP4 on the Aldi site and still seems to play video, pictures etc.

It's a style and image thing, so you just wouldnt understand as you are tooooo old.    ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Logged
Ask yourself :  " WHY do I believe in what I believe?"

Remember that my opinions expressed here are not representative of the opinions of other members on the OOF Forum.

Vamps

  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Bishop Middleham, Co Durham.
  • Posts: 24708
  • Flying Tonight, so Be Prepared.
    • Mig 2.6CDX and 2.2 Honda
    • View Profile
Re: I pod or Mp4 Question
« Reply #5 on: 14 November 2008, 22:51:44 »
She is only 8 and confident enough not to worry about image, but I see what you are saying. :)

Yes she has the benefit of mature parents, that is why she is so confident and able............... :P :P :P
Logged

michael.d.s.

  • Junior Member
  • **
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • glasgow
  • Posts: 74
    • View Profile
Re: I pod or Mp4 Question
« Reply #6 on: 15 November 2008, 01:36:11 »
the archos machines are very good , i think anyway .
Logged

albitz

  • Guest
Re: I pod or Mp4 Question
« Reply #7 on: 15 November 2008, 06:18:40 »
In my experience ipods are good for just over a year,then start to go wrong.Built in obselesence ?  :-/
Logged

Gaffers

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • NE Hampshire/Surrey
  • Posts: 11322
    • Ford Ranger Wildtrak
    • View Profile
Re: I pod or Mp4 Question
« Reply #8 on: 15 November 2008, 07:16:40 »
If she is 8 you will find an iPod will be broken very soon.

The sansa PMPs are vey good, easy to use, cheaper, you can add SD cards to boost the memory and they look ok too   :y
Logged

theolodian

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Warwickshire
  • Posts: 3654
  • I need a new avatar.
    • View Profile
Re: I pod or Mp4 Question
« Reply #9 on: 15 November 2008, 21:56:41 »
Quote
If she is 8 you will find an iPod will be broken very soon.

The sansa PMPs are vey good, easy to use, cheaper, you can add SD cards to boost the memory and they look ok too   :y
I'm with Gaffers.  I have iPods and like them a lot, but I find that Sansa make very good players for gifts to people that do not have iPods already.

If you are going to be managing her music files for her though then you are not going to be happy whatever you get!  :P
Logged
Trains may have been invented here, but public transport is a foreign concept!

Golfbuddy

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Cornwall
  • Posts: 4151
  • I'm On An Economy Drive
    • View Profile
Re: I pod or Mp4 Question
« Reply #10 on: 15 November 2008, 22:02:56 »
My 10 year old daughter has an iPod Nano which we bought for her last Christmas, never gone wrong but for some reason she now wants the 'new' shape. She was adamant she had to have an iPod until she saw my new 32Gb Creative Zen player. Now she wants one of those, luckily she doesn't know the difference between an 8Gb and the 32Gb so she'll be getting one of those for Christmas instead.

Having used the Creative for about 4 weeks now I have to say I'm very pleased with it and find it incredibly easy to use. Can't really see the point in having 32Gb though, with that much music and video it would be really hard to find anything.
Logged
[size=24]        [/size][/b]

Vamps

  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Bishop Middleham, Co Durham.
  • Posts: 24708
  • Flying Tonight, so Be Prepared.
    • Mig 2.6CDX and 2.2 Honda
    • View Profile
Re: I pod or Mp4 Question
« Reply #11 on: 15 November 2008, 22:16:00 »
Going to sound a silly question, but been doing some looking today.

Is I Pod just a make or is it a piece of equipment made by several companies. :-[

Just want something that she can put some pictures / video on and play some music and saw some things in Asda for about £50.00
Logged

Martin_1962

  • Guest
Re: I pod or Mp4 Question
« Reply #12 on: 15 November 2008, 22:18:21 »
Ipod is an Apple branded mp3 player of rather average performance, bought because it is an ipod not because it is any good.

There are quite a few decent mp3 players - much better than Apple
Logged

Kevin Wood

  • Global Moderator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Alton, Hampshire
  • Posts: 36417
    • Jaguar XE 25t, Westfield
    • View Profile
Re: I pod or Mp4 Question
« Reply #13 on: 15 November 2008, 22:27:11 »
I've recently bought one of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001C9RY34/400001938-21/?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Except I've got the 16Gb one. Excellent piece of kit. Very nice audio quality and superb battery life. Bought it as an MP3 player primarily but a colleague dumped a movie onto it while I was on a business trip and it brightened up the flight home. Not 100% sure if it would meet the requirements of an 8 year old but worth a look.

Kevin
Logged
Tech2 services currently available. See TheBoy's price list: http://theboy.omegaowners.com/

Vamps

  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Bishop Middleham, Co Durham.
  • Posts: 24708
  • Flying Tonight, so Be Prepared.
    • Mig 2.6CDX and 2.2 Honda
    • View Profile
Re: I pod or Mp4 Question
« Reply #14 on: 15 November 2008, 22:28:08 »
Quote
Ipod is an Apple branded mp3 player of rather average performance, bought because it is an ipod not because it is any good.

There are quite a few decent mp3 players - much better than Apple

Thanks for that, it changes things somewhat :y :y :y
Logged
Pages: [1] 2  All   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Page created in 0.013 seconds with 17 queries.