New iPod Owner Onslaught Overwhelms iTunes 395
Billosaur writes "In the post-Christmas rush to power up and use their new iPods, an onslaught of downloaders brought iTunes to its knees, according to CNN. Monday and Tuesday saw users posting message after message about slow downloads and the iTunes site denying them entry. The heavy traffic was apparently more than the system could bear, what with the large numbers of people receiving iPods and iTunes gift cards. Perhaps Apple was underestimating just how successful they were going to be?"
Re:Apple and iPod... (Score:3, Informative)
Yes (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Oh goody! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Yes (Score:5, Informative)
Oh, and for the record, DivX is a specific implementation of MPEG-4. The iPod also plays MPEG-4, including MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) which gives much higher quality for the same bit-rate (look for anything encoded with X.264; there's a lot of it floating around).
Re:I didn't notice (Score:1, Informative)
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Re:Or maybe it was Taiwan being offline (Score:4, Informative)
Re:First Post! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Yes (Score:4, Informative)
Hilarious.
The only digital video format that could reasonably be described as a format "people" (i.e., a non-trivially-small fraction of them) use would probably be MPEG2 (as in ATSC & DVD). After that probably comes all of the flash being watched by YouTubers.
Re:Content Delivery System (Score:2, Informative)
Re:It's Win/Win for Apple (Score:2, Informative)
I thought you couldn't change the battery on the Zune.
Re:That's nice (Score:3, Informative)
But it has a 60GB drive in it (Score:3, Informative)
There's also the fact that the Zen can output at 640x480 to an external display.
Let's step out of the reality distortion field... (Score:3, Informative)
My Zen is slightly thicker, but otherwise the same size as an iPod. It fits in my pocket, and that's all that matters from my perspective. 60GB is more than enough for me, so more isn't really much of a selling feature (again, to me. If it is to you, wonderful). The LCD on the Zen is much nicer for watching videos on, though not in the sunshine. However, if I'm out and about in the sunshine, I'll have other things I'll want to look at. It's a trade off, which works out in favour of the Zen for me.
I don't personally like iTunes very much, and have no intention of buying music from a DRM service, so that has no effect to me. I *do* bring my media player over to friends places to share music. This is perfectly legal in Canada, where I live, and I don't particularly like the idea of Apple trying to force American laws on me. I know it's possible to get at the music files in other ways, but why would I want to put up with that hassle if I don't have to?
Re:I helped with this (Score:2, Informative)
If an artist only writes one or two good songs for every 15 they release, they suck. Why are you buying their shit anyway?