Apple’s “It’s Showtime” special event has brought us many more consumer products, of which I’ll briefly list here.
- New iTunes 7
- New blue icons instead of the old green ones.
- Will download missing album art for free.
- Reorganised left section.
- Gapless playback.
- New “album view” and “cover view”.
- Spruced up interface (a lark to Lepoard?)
- iPod Updater and iPod Preferences now built into iTunes interface (no more seperate applications or going to the Preference window).
- Sync between computers with your iPod.
- No more Mini Store?
- iTunes Movie Downloads
- 75 movies currently all from Disney owned studios (Pixar, Touchstone etc.)
- 640×480 .h246 encoded videos.
- Same access rights as TV episodes.
- TV episodes also receive a resolution boost.
- New iPods
- iPod Nano now aluminium.
- Nano available in 2, 4 and 8GB sizes.
- 2GB is only in silver, 4GB in all the colours of the rainbow, except black which is exclusive to the 8GB.
- Dissapointing update to the iPod Video, just brighter screen, longer battery life and updated interface.
- iPod Video also gets gapless playback (has Apple been listening to feedback?)
- A smaller iPod Shuffle.
More updates and opinions later.