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| Apple iPod classic 80 GB Black (6th Generation) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Apple
Category: CE
List Price: $249.00
Buy New: $224.53
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Avg. Customer Rating:  719 reviews
Sales Rank: 8
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Display Size: 2.5
Size: 80 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 3.4 x 1.9
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: MB147LL/A
Model: MB147LL/A
UPC: 885909176656
EAN: 0885909176656
ASIN: B000JLKIHA
Release Date: September 5, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Newest Generation iPod Classic for Music, Video, & Photos ...sold by a 5 star Amazon veteran with great customer service credentials. Shipped the day you order by our 24/7 staff of professionals who e-mail you a USPS delivery confirmation number so that you can track your order from our door to yours for worry free transactions!
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| Customer Reviews:
Nice iPod, but.... October 18, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I always desired this music (and video!)player. When I saw the new release with 80 GB (a lot of memory) instead of 30 GB I purchased it inmediately because All my music from CDs and mp3, and the videos can be stored in this device. Now I'm enjoing it and I like it. Good for Apple.
Unfortunately, it's something wrong: In release 5.5 the video output from the iPod to a TV was a simple cable connected in the headphone jack, and now, with the new version I have to PURCHASE a dock station to connect the iPod to the TV. and it's not only the cost of the device, but the fact you have to carry this dock st. to another place if you want to show your videos to your family or friends. With iPod 5.5 you only use a simple cable you'll carry in your pocket. Bad for Apple in this fact.
 Another amazing version of the iPod! October 17, 2007
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this iPod to replace my 20GB 4th generation iPod. I was so amazed when it arrived and was actually slightly smaller despite the 8x larger capacity! I love the new menu designs and cover flow. This is my first ipod with video capability and I love the way movies and music videos look on it.
My one complaint is that Apple has disabled the ability to turn on TV out to play iPod videos on a TV. And I didn't find this out until AFTER I had bought a cord specifically for this purpose.
 Sufficient disc space, iTunes is poor October 17, 2007
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
I recently upgraded from the "old" 80 Gbyte iPOD to the new Classic 160 Gbyte iPOD (my old one couldn't hold all of my ripped CDs). Before I synced the new iPOD, I upgraded iTunes from version 6.9.something to the latest ones. In this process, a *large* fraction of the cover art that I had spent some 100 hours to scan and insert into iTunes, mysteriously disappeared. That is, they disappeared from iTunes, but if I watch the same Mp3 files in Windows Media Player, the cover art is still there.
At this time, I decided to download cover art from the iTunes Store. This recreated most of the cover art (but in a lower quality than I had used). Still, the cover art for nearly all of my Van Morrison records were missing, and half of those of my Paul Simon records + some more. As neither Van Morrison nor Paul Simon are obscure artists, I find this rather annoying.
Being systematic, I use family name before first name in my artist information, thus "Morrison, Van". However, I then found that if I change the artist name to "Van Morrison", iTunes finds some of the cover art. For some reason, it inserts the cover art of some "Darren Morrison" on the Greatest Hits album of Van Morrison. This only serves to confirm my impression of iTunes.
Another problem: I have several albums named "Anthology" (e.g. by Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles). iTunes screws up this completely: when I scroll through the Album list on my iPOD, the software has *merged* all files named "Anthology", so when I go in on the album, the songs of Marvin Gaye and those of the Miracles both show up. The same is the case in iTunes. Another problem on the iPOD: the album cover of "Anthology" and that of "The Anthology" (Bobby 'Blues' Bland) are repeated some 40-50 times, apparently for no reason at all.
iTunes holds a lot of useful information about albums that I rip; this information is automatically put into the fields of the MP3 file. Overall -- having ripped some 1000 CDs -- my impression is that there are inaccuracies and/or gross errors in at least 10% of this information.
In summary: I'm not very impressed with iTunes; these are irritating glitches. (Of course, Windows Media Player has its own flaws...).
Ok. So my review so far has dealt with iTunes. I'm quite happy with the iPOD itself. I haven't had time yet to check if it handles playlists better than my old iPOD. (I have carefully created my own playlists in a previous version of iTunes, where obviously also the sequence of songs were important). When I imported the playlists to my previous iPOD, the song sequence was screwed up on the iPOD.
In summary: a mixed impression of the iPOD + iTunes.
Finally: another stupidity with iTunes. A few years ago, I bought an extended version of Quicktimes because i wanted to be able to convert Quicktimes movies to the Microsoft format. I then updated iTunes on my machine. And without notifying me, a new version of Quicktimess was also installed, overwriting the one I had paid for.
Looks Good, But Lost Some of 5th Gens Features October 17, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Eventhough it may look pretty, if you plan on watching videos not from itunes then you will notice an extra set of black bars for 16:9 movies, a very dark set halfway to the picture, and another lighter set the other halfway, which changes in brightness with the picture. My 5th gen doesn't do this. Also when you load video into the TV Show section and it's not from itunes then it will mess up the order of all the other TV Shows, even the one's from itunes. If you really don't need 160GB, and you plan on watching videos not from itunes, then I suggest the 5th gen model for the 80GB, which you might be able to pick up at a cheap price with the new models. The only "improvements" would be the album covers that are now displayed throughout the menus, that I feel isn't worth the change.
SIMPLY LOVE IT! October 16, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I received my Ipod Classic 80GB yesterday and I love it! I upgraded my 4th generation 20GB Ipod and love the simplicity and oustanding video that the Ipod Classic delivers. I contemplated buying the Ipod Touch, but was afraid that I would bang it up taking it to the gym and everyday use and $400.00 is a little too steep to shell out for an Ipod with only 16GB although the features are impressive. Right out of the box, the Ipod Classic is very user friendly in syncing with Itunes which I love.
Not having a video Ipod before, I am very impressed and glad that I waited for the 6th generation Ipod.
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