Friday, November 16, 2007

3rd generation 4GB silver iPod Nano

I recently bought the new 3rd iPod nano 4GB to check out the new split user interface and was disappointed by the following shortcomings.
  • Aluminium front cover that is very scratch prone ( a simple wiping with the included cloth was enough to put a scratch around the click wheel)
  • highly polished chrome back cover that starts looking ugly with all the smudges it collects very easily
  • TV out no longer supported via the headphone jack (special 50$ dock and $50 apple approved cables required)
  • tiny 2 inch screen not too comfortable to watch a full length movie (apple should have stuck to providing video on the itouch (best size) or classic (better size) screen )
  • colors on the 8GB models are too dull. (I would have preferred the earlier generation shuffle colors (bright orange, bright green, bright pink etc)
  • Worst of all you can no longer connect your ipod nano to your computer and then play the songs on your nano via itunes.

I wanted to buy the 160GB classic for the huge storage that I would get to store and watch my extensive ipod converted video library, but the TV out feature has put me off and I would probably not be buying the classic until I read that a future update puts back the TV out via the headphone jacks.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Rajesh. Just a quick Q about your panasonic 50PHD plasma and Mac Mini. You hooked up via DVI to a Panasonic DVI board? How did you route the sound - via the audio in on the DVI Board?

Did your resolution appear instantly at 1366x768?

Any overscan issues? Missing menu's (menu's with the tops cut off due to overscan etc?

Thanks,

Kieron

Raj said...

The panasonic plasma, mac mini and a PS3 are all hooked up to a 5 port HDMI switcher DigiView HM-501. The audio for all the 3 is routed via optical out to a Denon AVR-1803 SS System. I use a Logitech Harmony 880 remote to make sure the plasma is switched on before the mac mini and this ensures that the mac mini sets the video output automatically to 1366x768, so no overscan issues are encountered. However if the mac mini is switched on before the plasma then you get a no video signal as it seems that the mac mini sets the resolution to a much higher resolution.
Thanks
Raj

Anonymous said...

Thanks Raj. Love the blog.