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- neocitron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"640 kilobytes is big enough for anyone"
- Bill Gates, 1980 - Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All we need is "Yes, but will it run linux?" and we should have covered most of our cliche posts
- dragonmaster2d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1in five years youll have the now video ipod stapled to the inside of your eyeballs
- Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Patience not one of your many virtues I see...
- Ricapar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you have 1TB of music... I think you should seek help.
- aaumiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why would anyone in there right minds need anything with that big of storage?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and whats news about this? Is it really news to anyone that computers and all electronics will have more space then even thought possible in the future?
- ndm007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0million*
- ndm007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Same here. I think the future is in wi-fi enabled iPods. Being able to update podcasts, and download video in any hotspot. Hell, why stop there. You could use wi-fi to access any of your playlists from anywhere in the world.
yummy ;P - aten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Of course, there will be a terabyte iPod someday. No need to be an Analyst to see this ...
- .Steven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A tape drive in your pocket!
- Linuxrocks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0By the time the 1TB ipod comes out it'll have a lot more utility than a music player. In fact, the music player will probably just be a small subset of its ubiquity. It may even been a mini OSX with wi-fi, functions as networked attached storage, your celly phone, tons of other things too.
Most computers do not have close to 1tb of memory even today. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1hover toilet in 4 years.
. - danhuard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0By the time the 1TB ipod comes out it'll have a lot more utility than a music player. In fact, the music player will probably just be a small subset of its ubiquity. It may even been a mini OSX with wi-fi, functions as networked attached storage, your celly phone, tons of other things too.
- Zlobadon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's only a lot if you have songs in the ***** bitrate that people encode most of them now.
- anthony1124, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0imagine lossless dvd audio quality on your ipod.
- master_of_fm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and in 20 years we will all have wifi implated in our brains streaming music and directly into our brains, and then when your steal movies and music the RIAA/MPAA will be able to shut off your senses making you temporarily deaf and/or blind as punishment
- J_Omega, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've got about 3/4-TB in music. I'd have more, but I need to buy more storage first.
Mind you, my music is 99% lossless by storage used. - katsanes, on 01/30/2008, -0/+0In 10 years they'll have 10 terabytes!!!
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You can lead a horse to water, but you cant make him drink.
Honestly, if storage gets that flexible, then i think they will find creative ways to make things smaller ot better or redsign it before they give us all 1TB iPods... I dont think, in 5 years, the average iPod buyer will need q TB
But... dig anyways - master_of_fm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sorry that should read "music and video directly into our brains"
- lamprey187, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I predict Steve Ballmer will throw a chair at the terabyte iPod in exactly ten years from now.
- OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So if you have a 1TB iPod. would you have iGames (buy them online in an iTunes store kind of way just like the videos?). That PowerVR design used in some PDAs and in the Intel 9x0 would be more enough for the sorts of games you could get for $1 - $5 and it wouldn't jack up the hardware price and battery usage.
- turgiddahlia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In 5 years I could "possibly" have trained myself to transform into a Ferarri. It's irrelevant. Good to see this "analyst" (is he divining frog intestines) earning his keep!
- master_of_fm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0based on that a 4GB holds 1000 songs, it would take almost 3 years to listen to a TB of music
- il0vemymac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, right...
Thats wishful thinking on somebody's part. - underoath_777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If it plays all my videos, supports all video types, all audio types (or at least more), then it might be worth it, I have ALOT of media, between movies, music, pictures and such, not a TB worth, but 5 years is along time away.
- catester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0But will they have a case for it that prevents those annoying scratches?
- ronmexico, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0But will it play Ogg Vorbis????
Another cliche not yet mentioned. - rookieone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow...can you even fill it all up? :-
- lamprey187, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thanks snipehack, glad somebody thought so. Couldn't agree more about the video quality a portable terabyte device could deliver.
- sulestis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0who cares about some analyst's speculation, not news, no digg
- RT55J, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'll wait for Apple to release the iPlay.
- gukid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think this author of this newstory realized that it wouldn't be noteworthy at all had he not slapped "iPod" onto it. Really, I like music and all, but what's up with the iPod? Maybe I just have this false hope that people will stop buying into name brand recognition someday... *scratch scratch*
- Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"In fact, the music player will probably just be a small subset of its ubiquity"
ubiquity is the wrong word. "the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once)"
Utility, functionality, etc. is what you appear to have meant. - 16x9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0VIDEO! VIDEO and more VIDEO!
I agree that 30 or 60 gigabytes is way (w-a-y) too much for most music collections. But if the idea of a Video iPod does take root (as seems to be the case thus far) then this kind of storage space will be required.
And consider that the video encoded for the current Generation Five iPod is comparatively low resolution. Future iPods will no doubt have the ability to play much higher quality video (at least to an external display). This means that a given stretch of video will require a great deal more storage space.
Having written all this, we are talking about speculation from a money guy. A well respected and smart money guy but a money guy nonetheless. Although I can't say that I think he is too far off the mark. - toyotaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is completely retarded, I'd have a hard time filling a 60gb ipod right now. and imagine if I actually paid for content, suddenly that $300 little device is worth.. $750,000 (at $1 per song)?
- corbanbrook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how about 3d holographic porn ipods in 5 years. NO DIGG!
- ChrisPikula, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0jkfan87
Are you retarded? Roughly a million megs divided by 147000 CD's give about 6.8MB/CD. So STFU and crawl back home so you can learn some math. - stokestack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Despite the existence of lossless DRMed formats, you can't buy music in them. That, in combination with the fact that all current (and soon, past) music is dynamically compressed so it's nothing but a wall of noise battering your eardrum with 100% peaks every millisecond, means all discussions of capacity and quality are pointless. Unless you have a giant collection of pre-1996 CDs to losslessly encode, most individuals' music collections will never warrant a terabyte of storage.
- spyd3rr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"640 kilobytes is big enough for anyone"
- Bill Gates, 1980
neocitron posted by neocitron (0) at 02:57 PM 11/11/05
ahahahahaha - blackpro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0One other comment... finny we can get more data in smaller bits and yet we cannot increase gas mileage or energy usage..
interesting conspiracy going on here you know? - blackpro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0does anyone realize that if this happens outside of loading video on it I will have everysong I have ever heard and downloaded on the internet... i dont think it will be cool for some odd reason .. so what I got EVERYTHING... LOL
just my 2 cents because the RIAA or who ever is going to get all the rest LOL - Mexrocker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0but will it run linux???
lol - dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeh, 1TB is totaly overkill for music.. Even a loss-less codec, having enough music to fill that would years to rip, letalone listen to it all.. (19GB of music at "normal" bitrate is over a week, and I hardly have the time to listen to most of it..).. Buut.. For video (I'd say also backup, but I don't think I'd trust an MP3 player to back up a TB of stuff..), aslong as it had a decent sized screen and outputs (To HD/normal TVs mainly), it could be good..
But, for 5 years, I think 1TB is a bit much (From 50GBish today).. THey might be avalible, but it doesn't say what they'll cost..
- Ben - rebrad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You'll need 900GB just for the DRM software.
- ndm007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh, maybe like 1TB of video, which is projected in HD-DVD quality from a little lens on the top of iPod.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Who honestly has a terabyte of music and actually listen to all of of enough to put it on an MP3 player?
In order to listen to a TB of music, even at the highest of bitrates, it would still take you a LONG LONG time to listen to it all. - Dota, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the battery life is going to be more important. who needs 1 tb of storage when u can only play the media for a few hours
- blakholephysics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i can imagine a couple of good things that would come out of this. portable everything... anyone have portable firefox? i guess it could be like that except run off of you ipod. and it wouldn't just be firefox, it would be your entire OS. files, music, video, movies, games
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