Re: Ipaq HX4705, to buy or not to buy?
- From: "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 23:21:53 GMT
I've loaded a 1.5 hour movie into 160Meg of a memory card. It plays
quite well (320x240 at 15fps say). In general you'd use compression of
course, and commonly the PDAs come with windows media player (9 or 10)
but you can also get 3rd party players like Betaplayer which do MPEG4
and other compression formats.
All you need really to do this is a tool to rip say a DVD or MPEG to a
more compressed, resized format for the PDA - such as DVD2PPC and so
on. Ripping can take several hours (the codecs have a lot of CPU
intensive work to do), so it's sometimes nice to do overnight.
The screens are good enough quality to watch several hours (I've done
this on flights), although obviously if you have widescreen content
you're going to lose screen space to black bars top & bottom. Nice to
have if you've seen all the in-flight movies for example.
HTH
Cheers - Neil
On Fri, 20 May 2005 16:35:07 -0500, "Mostro" <oveloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>tell me about the movies, how can you watch full length movies on it?
>
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>"Darin" <darinr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:uPJHfJYXFHA.3840@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I would say it totally is worth it, having owned several, and now the
>>hx4700, but ONLY if you are going to depend on it. Otherwise it's an
>>expensive paperweight or calendar. I use mine for: notes, calendar, word
>>docs, ms pocket money, pocket bible, remoting into work via VNC, emails,
>>music, movies on the go, audio books, NES games, viewing and showing
>>pictures (great VGA resolution), recording notes, using pocket streets for
>>maps, and more. Hope that helps a little. This is a good article:
>>http://www.pocketpcmag.com/_archives/feb05/leavingmylaptop.aspx
>>
>> "Mostro" <oveloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:d6lins$ck0$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>I am thinking about buying the Ipaq HX4705.
>>>
>>> I work IT, I am a sys admin.
>>>
>>> what kind of value do these things have at present? are most people that
>>> own them happy? I would e-mail, contacts, and basic office stuff, but
>>> what
>>> about th entertainment value of this thing
>>>
>>> is it worth buying? how mature are the apps and the OS? should I wait a
>>> while? If I were stranded on a desert island, with this thing, and free
>>> wireless internet could I live out the rest of my life ok?
>>>
>>> can I get some feedback on people that love theirs and why? can I get
>>> feedback from those that hate theirs and why? thank you in advance. 500
>>> bills is no drop in the bucket for me, so I hope to get a
>>>
>>> good feel for wether I should or shouldnt
>>>
>>> what are some of the things that I can do with a pocket pc?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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