Quote McLaren_Field="McLaren_Field"Why not buy a non-Apple product that actually states on the box that you can play any sort of video format from any source rather than rely on Apple to let you fiddle its hardware ?'"
Indeed.
The rather confusingly named BBC "I Player" is nothing of the sort when you try and actually play anything on an "i pod".
Apple's jealous guarding of video and music formats can be particularly irritating. However, my Nokia phone can play any video or music format and has a 32 GB memory. The downside (and the reason why I still carry my ipod as well) is that the software that comes with it was written using a maximum of 10 lines of code by a year 5 during a 30 minute ICT lesson (may even have been my own 10 year old herself). It's absolutely diabolical and total torture to use (in the rare moments it doesn't crash).
I had the same experience with the Sony MP3 Walkman I bought 3 or 4 years ago. The first version of software just didn't actually work at all and they had to replace it completely (which meant re-loading all my songs again). Sony were also guilty of tagging their MP3 format (ATRAC) to make it incompatible with other players.
) on the iPod Touch, not sure about downloading / saving them to the Touch though.
