Are iPods Changing the Way We Listen to Music

Executive Summary about iPod by Spencer Anderson

iPod Classic

They’re everywhere, and not only are they everywhere, they look cool too. 8 tracks, records, cassettes, CDs, and now the iPod.

Wearing those now immediately recognizable hip cream coloured headphones, I could feel the eyes of every have-not-an-iPod on me with curiosity and maybe a little jealousy. An iPod lets you put 10,000 songs inside something the size of a pack of cigarettes. Gone are the heavy, fragile CD cases and the Discman that skips after each step.

Is the iPod changing the way we listen to music? Undeniably. With an iPod, we can take our music anywhere, and not just one album like we could with the walkman. Now we can carry our entire collections everywhere we go. It can play mixes at parties. You can save Microsoft Word documents on it and photos for that matter. Delete it. By being able to store over 700 albums, the iPod is encouraging us to try types of music we might not have listened to before. When burning a CD to an iPod takes a short few minutes, what’s there to lose?

Doubtful, especially with people spending on average 100 pounds on iPod accessories. It’s difficult to picture something people now say they can’t live without vanishing, unless Apple CEO Steve Jobs finds another way to outdo himself yet again. And on that note now Apple has come out with the smaller, cheaper version of the iPod called the iPod shuffle. Only time will tell.

HDTV and the iPod Photo: A Perfect Marriage?

Executive Summary about iPod by Robert Armstrong

The iPod photo can store thousands of digital photos, and syncs with a Mac or PC via iTunes. Also, with the addition of an optional camera connector($29), you can copy photos directly from a digital camera and automatically create a slideshow from them on the iPod photo. To connect the iPod photo to an tuner.com/what-is-hdtv.html”>HDTV you’ll need to first make sure that your 
HDTV has composite video and audio inputs and then purchase the iPod photo AV 
cable ($19) from Apple. Connect the iPod to your TV, select the appropriate input 
and hey presto, your slideshow can be seen in beautiful, bright widescreen glory on 
your HDTV.

It’s worth bearing a few things in mind when creating slideshows for HDTV. First of 
all, the screen of an HDTV set has an aspect ratio of 16:9 (length: height) so if you size your photos with this aspect ratio you’ll be able to fill the screen without 
cropping the photo or seeing ugly black space around it. So if you only intend viewing your photos on-screen, whether on your computer or HDTV, you can save space on your iPod photo by reducing the capture resolution on your digital camera. Of course, the iPod photo can store more than just photographs.