1269 While everyone is trying to figure out ways to get The Lord of the Rings on the new iPod, Playlist tells you if you should bother. After an impromptu lesson on ripping DVDs, he gives the skinny on the quality of Tinyvision:

I watched the resulting movies on both a television screen connected to the iPod with Apple's AV cable and on the iPod. The television picture wasn't bad, with quality akin to a VCR. There was some banding evident in gradient areas--a sky moving from dark to light, for example--but nothing worse than what I get from TiVo programs recorded at Medium quality (and far better than what you see on an airplane's video monitors). These artifacts were less visible on the iPod's screen, which displayed a picture that was clear and nicely balanced.

Read on for more info, like whether the gnarshing of teeth over the lack of Firewire cables is justified.

Bill's been using Macs since the late 80s. When he's not making smartass remarks to amuse Kirk Hiner, he enjoys fighting for the user.

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